Geneology

[Jeanette X]

Well. I am apparently a direct female-line descendant of this woman:


http://www.thecid.com/w/frenchw/i91.htm

As are over 140,000 people in the United States.
I also discovered that the pedigree collapses at her, as the descendents of her two husbands, Jaques Hertel and Francois Morel, ended up marrying each other.

She'd probably be irritated to learn that most of her descendants don't speak French. :\

[Evil Robot]

Black French Homos?

[Evil Robot]

her two ex husbands got married\

[Evil Robot]

At least you dont have any jews in your family. If you di, Geggy would not speak to you.

[kahljorn]

stupid women with their mitochondrial dna.

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

I asked my grandmother once if we were related to anyone famous. Where we came from and who were our ancesters.

"Off the boat" was all I got. Go the Irish!

[kahljorn]

an anthropology teacher told me that you can send a cotton swab with your saliva on it to some place and they can use it to trace your genetic heritage back pretty far ;o
and they can tell you all sorts of weird details too like what part of the world they came from and stuff

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

Yeah...but you have to pay them a lot of money for it.

[kahljorn]

how much is a lot?

[executioneer]

i thought it was spelt genealogy :/

on topic though i am descended in part from the first doctor on the puyallup indian reservation, doctor charles hadley spinning (he was a captain of an oregon trail caravan in 1851!)

EDIT: here am a picture of him
http://ncbible.org/nwh/SpinningC.jpg

edit 2 apparantly the internet is of the mistaken notion that his middle name was "harding", the dingbats

[Kitsa]

Is that why Geggy doesn't speak to me? I mean, I didn't really miss it, but...

Hey, if you're in any way European you may well have been descended from this royal manwhore:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augustus_II_the_Strong

They were never able to get an accurate count of his bastards, but he only had one legitimate child.

[Jeanette X]

Is that why Geggy doesn't speak to me? I mean, I didn't really miss it, but...

Hey, if you're in any way European you may well have been descended from this royal manwhore:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augustus_II_the_Strong

They were never able to get an accurate count of his bastards, but he only had one legitimate child.

It would certainly explain why my family has such heavy eyebrows. :\

[Geggy]

Whoo hoo! My name has been mentioned TWICE in this thread. Thanks for acknowledging my existence. I'm sure the people of my descendant would very much appreciate it. :)

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

how much is a lot?


http://dna.ancestry.com/welcome.aspx

$80....was $149.

[the Platinum Poppy]

I can't imagine being related to someone interesting. I come from the countryside. My grandparents and great grandparents came from the same countryside. My little sister once did a little family research as part of a school project, she went back several generations behind that and it's still just farmers and the occassional railroad worker in the same rural area. I suspect I wouldn't find anything more interesting if I bothered to continue the research.

[Kitsa]

I love when people become convinced they're a direct descendant of some historical figure, usually royal, whether that person had descendants or not.

I knew of one girl who was certain she was a descendant of Éponine Thénardier. Yes, the Les Misérables (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Mis%C3%A9rables) Éponine, despite my assurances to her that it was a fictional character.

Then again, I knew a girl in fourth grade who thought she was a purple horse, so maybe I just hung out with retards.

[Jeanette X]

I love when people become convinced they're a direct descendant of some historical figure, usually royal, whether that person had descendants or not.


I AM Marie Marguerie's direct matrilineal descendant, and I have the paperwork and the mitochondrial DNA to prove it! >:

[Kitsa]

I said "people", not "Jeanette X".

I'm talking about people who are descended from the gay Richard Lionheart, the dead-before-17 Lady Jane Gray, and the highly unlikely Elizabeth I.

[Jeanette X]

I said "people", not "Jeanette X".

I'm talking about people who are descended from the gay Richard Lionheart, the dead-before-17 Lady Jane Gray, and the highly unlikely Elizabeth I.

Oh okay. I thought you were being snarky.

[executioneer]

i'm prob. descended from mary queen of scots, at least thats what the ppl at the stewart clan meetings kept saying anyways though i haven't seen the documentation

[Kitsa]

my heritage research stopped at so many dead ends, on account of various batches of relatives who were at odds with one another, that I gave up.

On one side, blahblah miscellaneous Lord Whatnot and his distinctively-nosed group (they all look like Eric Idle) and manymany French people no one cares about, some of whom are Jewish but the others don't talk about that except for me. I know the town in Alsace we came from and I even know the name of the boat, but in the most recent generation it has been decided that it is bad to be French so we don't talk about that either.

I'll make a note of that....French bad, Jewish bad. So Lord Whatnot notwithstanding, Burke's Peerage isn't knocking on my door for the reason of those skeletons alone.

On the other side, people who may or may not have come from England, Denmark or France who also decided, although a few generations further back, that it was a very bad thing to be European, and so who the hell knows.

[Jeanette X]

French bad, Jewish bad.


I'm 1/2 French Canadian and 1/2 Ashkenazi Jewish. :\

[Evil Robot]

John the Baptist is my second cousin

[Tadao]

I was shocked to find out that I am in no way related to Noah.

[kahljorn]

don't tell the christians that ;o

[Evil Robot]

I know a guy named Noah Rosenthal.

[Kitsa]

Well, I don't mind being French or part Jewish and so here I am the black sheep of the family.

[Evil Robot]

So your black?

[Kitsa]

in spots.

[Esuohlim]

I AM RELATED TO JIM NABORS :( :( :(

http://hippiekiller.files.wordpress.com/2008/09/gomer-pyle-jim-nabors1.jpg

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

Roy Majtyka is my second cousin

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Majtyka

He was a baseball coach for the Braves and the Angels for a few years.

[ZeldaQueen]

I love when people become convinced they're a direct descendant of some historical figure, usually royal, whether that person had descendants or not.

I knew of one girl who was certain she was a descendant of Éponine Thénardier. Yes, the Les Misérables (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Mis%C3%A9rables) Éponine, despite my assurances to her that it was a fictional character.

Then again, I knew a girl in fourth grade who thought she was a purple horse, so maybe I just hung out with retards.
That's been noted about reincarnation. People always think that they're reincarnated from Napoleon or Cleopatra when they probably reincarnated from some slub in New Jersey.

And wow...she honestly thought that? How old was she at this time? If it was later than elementary school, I'm concerned.

[J. Tithonus Pednaud]

My paternal family line starts in Canada as two brothers fled murder charges in the mid 1700's and assumed new surnames. Funny story, in the late 1800's one of my ancestors was chief of police in some Quebec city.

[Kitsa]

The Éponine? Oh, that was back in those dark days of the late 90s when Les Mis was what "Twilight" is now.

I know of only one person out of probably 300-400 Éponine-wannabes that I heard who was actually qualified to sing it, and she did it professionally.

I didn't get along well with the other people in my various performing-arts programs. I'm glad I didn't continue in that vein because I probably would have strangled someone.

[ZeldaQueen]

Oh, I see. :lol

You were in performing art programs though? Sweet! I LOVED performing whenever I got the chance. What did you do? Singing, dancing?

Oh, and I've never actually traced my family tree, but apparently my name's German for "East Field", so popular speculation is that my ancestors were Germanic serfs or something.

[Kitsa]

Yes, I did all of that, but my health shit out on me so that went the way of everything else.

I went to school to be one of those physicians who tours with ballets and such. Didn't work out.

[ZeldaQueen]

Ah, I see.

[Bod]

I'm related to the explorer, Dr Livingstone. Saw his statue in the town of Livingstone and it felt kinda weird.

[Tadao]

That's kinda cool. No wonder you like to travel.

[Kitsa]

I had a neurologist named Dr. Livingston once and you'd be surprised how unfunny they find that.

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

I presumed they would find it hilarious.

[Colonel Flagg]

My aunt (not blood related) traced her family tree back to Priscilla and John Alden of Mayflower fame.

FWIW.

[ZeldaQueen]

One of the strangest family trees I've personally seen was the one that dealt with the relationships between the Biblical patriarchs and matriarchs and their various family members. I was researching them for my Comparative Religion class and my mom walked in as I put a chart of the family tree on a slide. The conversation went something like this:

Mom: What's that?
Me: Oh, I'm doing a report on the Patriarchs and Matriarchs. This shows who they all married.
Mom (examining the chart): Did that one marry her uncle?
Me: Looks like it. Do you see Jacob down there?
Mom: Yeah.
Me: He had two wives. Each wife also gave him their maids to give him more heirs, so he had four women.
Mom (looking closer at the chart): Holy s#it, the maids were his wives' half sisters!
Me (looking closer): Wow, you're right!
Mom: This reminds me of that song "I Am My Own Grandpa"

I'm sure there are stranger family trees, but it was pretty funny when I looked closer at it. :lol