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Mar 9th, 2009 11:28 PM | ||
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. |
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Mar 9th, 2009 09:51 PM | ||
Colonel Flagg |
My aunt (not blood related) traced her family tree back to Priscilla and John Alden of Mayflower fame. FWIW. |
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Mar 9th, 2009 07:54 PM | ||
10,000 Volt Ghost | I presumed they would find it hilarious. | |
Mar 9th, 2009 07:00 PM | ||
Kitsa | I had a neurologist named Dr. Livingston once and you'd be surprised how unfunny they find that. | |
Mar 9th, 2009 06:50 PM | ||
Tadao | That's kinda cool. No wonder you like to travel. | |
Mar 9th, 2009 06:30 PM | ||
Bod | I'm related to the explorer, Dr Livingstone. Saw his statue in the town of Livingstone and it felt kinda weird. | |
Mar 7th, 2009 11:21 PM | ||
ZeldaQueen | Ah, I see. | |
Mar 7th, 2009 10:23 PM | ||
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. |
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Mar 7th, 2009 09:00 PM | ||
ZeldaQueen |
Oh, I see. 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. |
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Mar 5th, 2009 10:44 PM | ||
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. |
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Mar 5th, 2009 10:36 PM | ||
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. | |
Mar 5th, 2009 09:39 PM | ||
ZeldaQueen |
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And wow...she honestly thought that? How old was she at this time? If it was later than elementary school, I'm concerned. |
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Mar 5th, 2009 02:56 AM | ||
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. |
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Mar 5th, 2009 02:32 AM | ||
Esuohlim |
I AM RELATED TO JIM NABORS |
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Mar 4th, 2009 08:36 PM | ||
Kitsa | in spots. | |
Mar 4th, 2009 08:32 PM | ||
Evil Robot | So your black? | |
Mar 4th, 2009 08:09 PM | ||
Kitsa | Well, I don't mind being French or part Jewish and so here I am the black sheep of the family. | |
Mar 4th, 2009 08:04 PM | ||
Evil Robot | I know a guy named Noah Rosenthal. | |
Mar 4th, 2009 07:59 PM | ||
kahljorn | don't tell the christians that ;o | |
Mar 4th, 2009 07:47 PM | ||
Tadao | I was shocked to find out that I am in no way related to Noah. | |
Mar 4th, 2009 07:40 PM | ||
Evil Robot | John the Baptist is my second cousin | |
Mar 4th, 2009 06:57 PM | ||
Jeanette X | I'm 1/2 French Canadian and 1/2 Ashkenazi Jewish. | |
Mar 4th, 2009 05:25 PM | ||
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. |
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Mar 4th, 2009 04:57 PM | ||
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 | |
Mar 4th, 2009 04:50 PM | ||
Jeanette X | Oh okay. I thought you were being snarky. | |
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