1. 07-31-21 07:47 AM #1
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    Is anybody here related to somebody famous?

    Maybe you’ve traced your heritage?

    Good or Bad?

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  2. 07-31-21 09:16 AM #2
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    My grandad did a pretty extensive family tree several years back, and found that we are related to John Glenn. Doesn't get me anywhere, but I thought it was pretty cool.
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  3. 07-31-21 11:45 AM #3
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    My great grandfather on my fathers side was a missionary that has been mentioned in many European history books. One of my cousins married a third cousin of Don Drysdale. He passed about 15 years ago.
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  4. 07-31-21 03:33 PM #4
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  5. 07-31-21 03:50 PM #5
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    Related, no...

    Friends wit, yep
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  8. 07-31-21 03:55 PM #8
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    Yes, an Italian painter and a North American explorer (the first European to see the Rocky Mountains), also a founder of New France a.k.a Quebec. all 3 are in the history books. There are some others also with brief mentions and most recently a swimmer. Only the first two are actually "famous" as in general encyclopedias. It was much harder to be famous years ago. Now, it's barely difficult, depending upon your social circle and locale opportunities.
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  9. 07-31-21 05:25 PM #9
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  10. 07-31-21 08:56 PM #10
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    My wife's maiden name was "Walton".

    Of course my first question when dating her was, "You mean like, Sam Walton"?

    "No, she said, but my mothers maiden name is "Cody" and we are direct descendants of Buffalo Bill Cody.

    OK, I can deal with that.

    On my side of the family... political dissidents against the Royal Crown who promptly got their heads lopped of by guillotine.

    So now you guys know where my sarcastic, fighting roots are anchored. LOL.
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  11. 07-31-21 09:59 PM #11
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    Quote Originally Posted by deltgen View Post
    My grandad did a pretty extensive family tree several years back, and found that we are related to John Glenn. Doesn't get me anywhere, but I thought it was pretty cool.
    I think that's very cool.
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  12. 07-31-21 10:12 PM #12
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    Quote Originally Posted by Snowball View Post
    Yes, an Italian painter and a North American explorer (the first European to see the Rocky Mountains), also a founder of New France a.k.a Quebec. all 3 are in the history books. There are some others also with brief mentions and most recently a swimmer. Only the first two are actually "famous" as in general encyclopedias. It was much harder to be famous years ago. Now, it's barely difficult, depending upon your social circle and locale opportunities.

    So, he was ahead of the Lewis & Clark expedition by about 100 years?
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  13. 07-31-21 10:14 PM #13
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    Quote Originally Posted by The Kraken View Post
    Related, no...

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    Who you friends wit?
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    LOL Kraken sticks a catheter in some B list actors cahwk and calls him a friend...
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    Quote Originally Posted by MinnesotaFats View Post
    LOL Kraken sticks a catheter in some B list actors cahwk and calls him a friend...
    Imagine this

    I stick a catheter in some b list actors dick and within a year I've saved more than you have in your entire life

    Crazy world we live in
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  18. 07-31-21 10:45 PM #18
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    Quote Originally Posted by The Kraken View Post
    Imagine this

    I stick a catheter in some b list actors dick and within a year I've saved more than you have in your entire life

    Crazy world we live in
    Saved what? Lives?

    You're a nurse, I'm a lender. Apples & oranges.
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  19. 07-31-21 10:52 PM #19
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    Quote Originally Posted by cincinnatikid513 View Post
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    The cotton gin?

    Is this the source of your trust fund you gamble with?
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    Quote Originally Posted by MinnesotaFats View Post
    The cotton gin?

    Is this the source of your trust fund you gamble with?
    nah he's way down the line
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  22. 07-31-21 11:01 PM #22
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  23. 07-31-21 11:27 PM #23
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    Bob Dylan (dam spelling) is my Ma's third cousin or something. Whatever he is, its not a blood relation it was married in.
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  24. 08-01-21 12:47 AM #24
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    Quote Originally Posted by hehfest View Post
    Bob Dylan (dam spelling) is my Ma's third cousin or something. Whatever he is, its not a blood relation it was married in.
    They from Minny?
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    Quote Originally Posted by MinnesotaFats View Post
    They from Minny?
    Indeed they are. I went there on a family trip in one of those big ol' brown cargo vans back in the 80's to see a Great Aunt and visit most of them. Saint Paul and Duluth most of them. The ole' timers. Most of them gone now. Went to a Twins game at the Metrodome (was that what it was called?). Back in the Frank Viola days, Bert B. etc. That was a fun game as a kid.
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  26. 08-01-21 10:23 AM #26
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    Quote Originally Posted by Roger T. Bannon View Post
    Steve Bannon and Ed O'Bannon on my Irish side.
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    Quote Originally Posted by TheGoldenGoose View Post
    Bert Blyleven had the filthiest curveball I've ever seen. NASTY !

    Yup don't see many 12/6 curves anymore

    Almost more effective thrown slower

    I work the Twins fantasy camp w Bert, good guy! Holds court at the Crown Plaza in Ft Myers nightly!!
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    @ jtloer One of my buds is black and his last name is McGruder.
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    Quote Originally Posted by TheGoldenGoose View Post
    So, he was ahead of the Lewis & Clark expedition by about 100 years?
    60-something years before Lewis & Clark.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre...V%C3%A9rendrye
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    Lewis & Clark were surveyors, not explorers

    They plotted & surveyed boundaries so the west could be diced up
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    Quote Originally Posted by TheGoldenGoose View Post
    Maybe you’ve traced your heritage?

    Good or Bad?

    One of the pilots for the original “Top Gun” movie. Like the footage you see in that film of the jets flying is one of my relatives in the cockpit.
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    Quote Originally Posted by KiDBaZkiT View Post
    One of the pilots for the original “Top Gun” movie. Like the footage you see in that film of the jets flying is one of my relatives in the cockpit.
    My father appeared in the 1951 football movie "Saturday's Hero" as an extra. In the longer version he had a speaking part. Also he was a stage hand when then filmed the famous "Singing in the Rain" scene. The studio's hired college student's during the summer time. As a kid I would get a kick watching him on the channel 9 weekly movie that would run five nights a week.
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    I'm a direct descendant of Alexander Kneland, who was the husband of Margaret Wallace Kneland, who was the sister of William Wallace aka Braveheart.

    If you go back far enough, we're all related
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