Post some famous people & see if anyone can guess the one you, or a family member, is related to

[red dog 1]

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Post a few famous people and see if anyone can guess the one you, or a family member, are related to.

I'll post 7, it's my lucky number.


Abraham Lincoln
Daniel Boone
John Wayne
Peter Piper
Jerry Garcia
Karl Malden
Leo DiCaprio

[Tetrachloride]

1. Guessing; Karl Malden

As for myself, related to a person of local infamy several generations past and 2 people of prestige in their field. But nobody on a front page.

[red dog 1]

14. nope

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I did see him one time in a health food store a few blocks down from Nob Hill in San Francisco, but we didn't actually interact.

My guess is that he probably walked down from either the Fairmont Hotel or the Mark Hopkins Hotel while filming "Streets of San Francisco" (or he took the cable car that used to run on California Street)

He was at the candy bar section of the health food store, and I recognized him immediately; but my brain froze and I forgot his damn name, So I just stood there starring at him, trying to remember his name
(At one point he starred back at me with a quizzical look)

He was and still is one of my all-time favorite actors.

[TlalocW]

2. I'm not

But in middle school, a classmate came in with pictures from her latest family reunion that included Johnny Cash. They had a photo of him spooning some potato salad on to his plate.

TlalocW

[NJCher]

3. not my family

but I'm doing research on a friend's family and practically every one of them is famous. One is a film documentarian, called the best by prominent others in his field. Not a big money maker but considered the gold standard. Speaking of the gold standards, quite a number of multi-millionaires. Founders of corporations. Mathematicians, scholars. Founders of schools. My friend came up with an innovation that served no socially valuable purpose but because he made millions at it, donated it all to socially progressive causes. He was oblivious to using money for himself; even Scotch taped a broken lamp together and called himself a "handyman."

Every one of these family members were interested in social justice and progressive causes. Not a trumper in the bunch. I thought that was amazing, how all of them were lefties. It's said we come onto this earth in soul groups; maybe that's why.

[Jeebo]

4. Claude Pepper

Claude Pepper is a distant relative of mine. I think he was my second cousin twice removed, or something like that. He was a Democratic U.S. Senator from Florida during the Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman administrations, and later a long-time Democratic U.S. Representative from Florida. He was known as a champion of older Americans, and I know I have heard somewhere that he authored the original Social Security legislation during the FDR administration, although I found no confirmation of that in the two online articles I just read about him. He died while still in office in 1989.

-- Ron

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Claude-Pepper

[red dog 1]

15. I remember him being a Congressman from Florida

[madamesilverspurs]

5. Sidney Biddle Barrows

aka Mayflower Madam.


Heh.


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[eShirl]

6. Elijah Parish Lovejoy, abolitionist newsman shot defending his printing press from a pro slavery mob

also, Carrol Spinney (Big Bird)

[mnhtnbb]

7. My second husband used to claim he was related

to Daniel Boone. He also claimed Henry Clay and Muhammad Ali (born Cassius Clay). I only believed the Henry Clay connection.

General Sir Redvers Buller was a cousin on my father's side of the family.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redvers_Buller

[Quakerfriend]

8. So many in my family it's funny

Richard Stockton- way, way back
Benjamin Rush- way back
Constantine Hering- g,g grandfather
Rudolph Hering- great uncle
Harold H Knerr- Katzenjammer Kids cartoonist- great uncle
Harry Belafonte- cousins father in law

[multigraincracker]

9. Have started going by my middle name and no

longer use my first name because of a politician that shares my name. Glad I'm not related to him.

[Ron Obvious]

10. I can understand that, Donald.

You have my sympathies.

[multigraincracker]

11. Not that bad,

but bad enough.

[Ohio Joe]

19. I share a name with a long dead politician...

In a way, it's kind of cool... He was not real famous but famous enough so there are thousands and thousands of pages that come up in a google search long before you get to me... It makes me a bit hard to research on the internet

[Harker]

12. Red dog Sekulovich?

I'm not aware of being related to anyone famous, but I was named for a Ukrainian-Canadian goalie who wound up in the NHL hall of fame.

I think of myself as more of a Rock Hunter type.

[wnylib]

13. FDR. Through genealogy research I discovered that

Humphrey Bogart, FDR, and one side of my father's family all share ancestry to a 1650s colonial couple in Connecticut named Isaac and Mary Sheldon. That makes us very, very, very distant cousins. I really enjoyed sharing that with my Republican brother.



Several other famous people much father back, but I like the FDR connection best.

[Mr.Bill]

16. My wife can prove ancestry back to the Mayflower. n/t

[red dog 1]

17. 5 more

All gunfighters

Billy the Kid
Jesse James
Wild Bill Hickok
John Wesley Hardin
Doc Holliday

[Kaleva]

18. My ancestors were subsistence farmers who lived in the boonies in Finland

One drowned in the Baltic Sea when she fell off a boat she was in.

[red dog 1]

20. Doesn't anyone care to answer any of these? Or post some names of their own?

[red dog 1]

21. Well, I guess this thread has run it's course,

since nobody wants to play anymore

(There's still time)