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• Reply 1 of 14

  midwinter Posts: 10,060member

  July 20, 2005 6:52PM

  Don't know if it's in the wiki, but my mother pointed out to me the other day that the kids on that Princes of Bel Air show are my cousins (their mother is our "famous" relative).
  
  
  
  Sigh.
• Reply 2 of 14

  hmurchison Posts: 12,423member

  July 21, 2005 1:38AM

  Now that stamp is cool. I'm new to this stuff...is it still in print?
• Reply 3 of 14

  powerdoc Posts: 8,123member

  July 21, 2005 4:28AM

  I have one, but it was very, very, very long time ago.
  
  
  
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlemagne
  
  
  
  This is the hazards of genelaogy.
  
  
  
  People used to say that everybody in France had Charlemagnes as ancestor, in my case it's true.
  
  
  
  My very small cousin (6th degree) is also very well known :
  
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerard_Depardieu
• Reply 4 of 14

  omega Posts: 427member

  July 21, 2005 4:33AM

  Your related to George DippyDo?
  
  
  
  Dats spethul!
  
  
  
  
• Reply 5 of 14

  powerdoc Posts: 8,123member

  July 21, 2005 5:19AM

  Quote:
  

  
  Originally posted by Omega
  
  Your related to George DippyDo?
  
  
  
  Dats spethul!
  
  
  
  
  

  
  

  
  
  Don't worry, you could also be related to him
• Reply 6 of 14

  bergz Posts: 1,045member

  July 21, 2005 5:26AM

  Quote:
  

  
  Originally posted by Powerdoc
  
  My very small cousin (6th degree) is also very well known :
  
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerard_Depardieu
  

  
  

  
  
  There's nothing small about him!!!
  
  
  
  --B
• Reply 7 of 14

  splinemodel Posts: 7,311member

  July 21, 2005 8:18AM

  Wiki yields nothing (!), although that should be expected since my last name was invented about 70 years ago. I'm working to get it in there.
• Reply 8 of 14

  flick justice Posts: 632member

  July 21, 2005 9:32AM

  Lt. Col. John McCrae, MD (November 30, 1872 ? January 28, 1918 ) was a Canadian poet, doctor, author and artist and soldier during World War I, who wrote the famous war memorial poem "In Flanders Fields".
  
  
  
  flick.
• Reply 9 of 14

  benjamin_r Posts: 265member

  July 22, 2005 2:12AM

  Good ol' Robbie Burns!
  
  
  
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Burns
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  My cousin only just found this out last month after a big dive into our family history....
  
  
  
  
• Reply 10 of 14

  existence Posts: 991member

  July 22, 2005 2:24AM

  A (late) cousin of mine: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freddie_Mercury
• Reply 11 of 14

  e1618978 Posts: 6,075member

  July 22, 2005 12:01PM

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constan..._%28emperor%29
  
  
  
  I read an article a while back that proved mathematically that all white people are decendants of Constantine (and every other European who lived more than 800 years ago and has living decendants - 80% have living decendants, 20% have none).
  
  
  
  It was in a print magazine, but this is similar:
  
  
  
  http://www.compapp.dcu.ie/~humphrys/.../Royal/ca.html
  
  
  
  If you go back 2000 years, the same applies to every person on the globe, so everyone reading this is a decendant of Khufu:
  
  
  
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khufu
  
  
  
  And Jesus too, if he had kids and the line survived to the present day. So even the most lily white KKK member has black ancestors in the recent past, and not long enough ago to have any evolutionary differences - to me anyway, this serves as proof that differences between the races are cosmetic and social only.
  
  
  
  Here is one my mom claims as a relative, Black Douglas:
  
  
  
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_D...28the_Black%29
• Reply 12 of 14

  powerdoc Posts: 8,123member

  July 22, 2005 4:13PM

  Quote:
  

  
  Originally posted by e1618978
  
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constan..._%28emperor%29
  
  
  
  I read an article a while back that proved mathematically that all white people are decendants of Constantine (and every other European who lived more than 800 years ago and has living decendants - 80% have living decendants, 20% have none).
  
  
  
  It was in a print magazine, but this is similar:
  
  
  
  http://www.compapp.dcu.ie/~humphrys/.../Royal/ca.html
  
  
  
  If you go back 2000 years, the same applies to every person on the globe, so everyone reading this is a decendant of Khufu:
  
  
  
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khufu
  
  
  
  And Jesus too, if he had kids and the line survived to the present day. So even the most lily white KKK member has black ancestors in the recent past, and not long enough ago to have any evolutionary differences - to me anyway, this serves as proof that differences between the races are cosmetic and social only.
  
  
  
  Here is one my mom claims as a relative, Black Douglas:
  
  
  
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_D...28the_Black%29
  

  
  

  
  
  Exactly, I had the chance that my mom proved your point via her huge genealogy study.
• Reply 13 of 14

  hmurchison Posts: 12,423member

  July 22, 2005 4:25PM

  Quote:
  

  
  Originally posted by Existence
  
  A (late) cousin of mine: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freddie_Mercury
  

  
  

  
  
  Yeah baby! Cousin huh?
  
  
  
  6 degrees of seperation.