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¿Question #5132?
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Kosmoko: I suppose my granddad (which i never learned to know). He fought in World War I, where he was seriously wounded by a frag grenade. He still managed to return home, start a family and raise 7 children although his wound never completely healed...
aetwitch: Heber Chase Kimball
DasViktor: No one. After literally hundreds of hours of genealogy done by a close relative, I can say that I am another nobody in a line of nobodies stretching back for at least the last 400 years,
CrayolaSmoker: Historically? Charlemagne. To me? My grandfather.
Felimid: I think I'm distantly related to General Philip Schuyler (Dutch general during the American Revolution). No, I'm not named for him, though I used to think I was. I'm actually named for an ancestor named John Philip Schuyler (my first name is Philip, my middle name is Schuyler; in case anyone's interested).
hellium: William Shakespear's Grandmother
Gregg_B: Adam. The first male.
kingofthegrill: I'd rather not say
Mike A: Adam.
ricardofo: Miguel Calmon du pin e Almeira (Marques de Abrantes)
puffinge: Puffinge the Great.
mintylish: Morgan Morgan, first settler in what is now WV, and his son Zackquill Morgan, founder of Morgantown.
Hector Vortac: Princess Rouensa of the Kaskaskia Indian tribe. Martyred when she went all Catholic like.
Ludocrazy: No one famous
JayAdan: One of my ancestors fought at Breed's Hill (Bunker Hill)
thespike: dwight d "i like ike" eisenhower
Muzza: My dad, but he is trying to lose some weight
DHEK: I don't go tracking down my ancestry.
elirlandes: Adam.
aleo09: none
WalkerRedEye: i think, well ive been told i had a ancestor who captained a ship at trafalgar but ive never really looked very far into it
Ebon Wendigo: The Howland brothers who were killed after leaving the Powell expidition down the Colorado River.
Leo-T: Rebecca Nurse - executed as a witch in Salem
ickebeebon: My Grandfathers ,Great Grandfather was an Indian Chief.
UhhhClem: Josiah Wedgwood.
GrimJester: Where's that "I'm my own grandpa" guy when you need him?
kevinwho: Some great aunt or other was canonized or something -- managed to get herself on a postage stamp in Malta.
slowcorner: As an adopted person, I claim Doc Holliday.
bigbadsteve: alan kulwicki was a distant relative
themagni: One of them decided to try fire.
ptsuk: The Famos Painter Robert Clunie (great uncle)
djlg: An advisor to the British throne in the 18th century. Not very notable really.
Loquutus: Honus Wagner
Cavedog_pdx: Charles II of England. He ruled in the 1640's. It's said that he fathered so many illegitimate children that everyone of English heritage can trace their lineage back to one of his offspring.
dietevil: Louis Brandeis and Leonard Bernstein
erli: Obi Wan Kenobi (a.k.a. Ben Kenobi)
CortexBomb: That would require research which I'm not willing to put in
Lord_Prussian: No idea
skelebone: I am distantly related to General George Pickett, of Pickett's Charge at the Battle of Gettysburg.
CDRodeffer: Noah
Dave: Noah Webster, so I am told.
sos1: Adam & Eve
jttm: Dunno, but he was bigger than your ancestor.
Spielfreak: Captain Sam Brockelbank, who fought in King Philip's War.
chaddyboy_2000: C.O. Deuel.