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One of my ancestors - great, great, great I'm not sure how many greats grandfather was Bernal Diaz de Castillo, a Spanish Conquistador. He accompanied Cortez in the rape and pillage of the Aztec empire and documented it in his book 'The Conquest of New Spain'...
 
mbdorfer said:
My great great uncle, William V. Engelberger, installed the very first commode in the state of New Jersey. Laugh if you must, but this is a big deal in plumbing history :crazy02:
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I think thats very cool. I believe they may have mentioned him on the the History Channels Modern Marvels show I watched recently.
 
I can't remember if it's 2 or three greats, but my great something grandmother was Mary Anne Nichols - the first known victim of Jack the Ripper.
That's about as exciting as my family tree gets.
 
i don't think theres anyone famous in my family but, my dad invented a few things for wiring, and my step dad owns RJSoftware

there was a girl in my math class a year ago who was related to lizzy borden, she was her great-great-great niece or something
 
My husbands great-grandparents set up the entire phone line system (as it was) in Brazil. I don't know if that makes them famous lol

I come from a family of Riendeer hearders & copper miners.
 
Family Legend has us related to Jim Bowie.

My dad traced some of our lineage back to predating the Mayflower. I'd have to hunt that info down, though, so I can't tell you anything about it.
 
I have been told that we are in some way related to Wild Bill Hickok (James Butler Hickok) but I have no factual evidence to support that theory. Just many relatives who make the claim. Would be cool though! :twoguns:
 
CHARMER said:
I have been told that we are in some way related to Wild Bill Hickok (James Butler Hickok) but I have no factual evidence to support that theory. Just many relatives who make the claim. Would be cool though! :twoguns:
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:-offtopic I stood in the very place Wild Bill was killed and went to his grave a couple of times. I am big on "old west" history.
 
Ya me too!! My family is actually from South Dakota so we go up there every summer and we always spend a day in Deadwood!! SOOO much fun!!
 
I'm related to Ferris Buellers cousins boyfriends aunts friends daughters college roomate, and she says..... I'm related to Kim Novak the actress from way back...
 
Oh god ... this is embarrasing.

I'm distantly related (by marriage) to Daniel O'Donnell! :sidestep:

For anyone (thats probably most of you), he's an Irish crooner very popular with old ladies. He's like, my wife's dad's cousin or something. Met him a couple of times in Ireland. Nice guy, bad jumpers.

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Although not related, I prefer the connection to Colin McRae. :)

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CHARMER said:
Ya me too!! My family is actually from South Dakota so we go up there every summer and we always spend a day in Deadwood!! SOOO much fun!!
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Much of my family live in the Black Hills (near Custer.) My stepdad grew up there. In the Custer Museum, there is a copper boiler donated by his mother way back when.
 
lefty_mussolini said:
Much of my family live in the Black Hills (near Custer.) My stepdad grew up there. In the Custer Museum, there is a copper boiler donated by his mother way back when.
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Thats awesome. How neat to be part of history! It is SO beautiful though! I love the Black Hills!! My family actually lives in Sioux Falls but we stay in Rapid City for a few days before we make our way there. We always go to Sturgis, Custer State Park, Deadwood, and sometimes other places as well. It is in SD that I actually feel at home.
 
We usually go but we didn't get the chance last year :( Very cool!. Did they have croc's when you went, in some small room with one glass wall so you could see in??
 
Here's my lineage...(as best I know)

Someone on my Mother's side (I want to say great-great grandfather but he might be an uncle) invented the spinning-jenny, the invention that came before the spinning wheel. His last name was Hargreaves.

Then on the Corning side, my relatives sort of founded the town of Manistee in Michigan. They built a hotel there which was the only thing in the area at the time. And then a town was built around it a few years later on.

My crazy Grandma claims that one of us Cornings was a mayor of NY but I could never nail that down. But I do know that the guy who she claimed was named Erastus, and my Dad wanted to name me after him. My Mother won that argument however and I ended up Bryan. :rolleyes:
 
mbdorfer said:
The typewriter was invented by George Blickensderfer. If you look in a phone book for Tuscawares County in Ohio, there is about a page and a half of Blickensderfers. If your name is spelled Blickendorfer, there is a good chance that we are related. :wavey:
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That's right! It is Blickensderfer (I feel like an idiot :bang: ). The Blickensderfers are my mom's side. I'm a Bloch. Only one in the phone book :D lol.
 
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