Are you descended from anyone well-known? We might be related.

Not directly. Alexandre Dumas is something like a fifteenth cousin four times removed. Black Jack Monaghan, the bushranger highwayman, was my great-great-grandfather's brother. I'm also related to the late Princess Diana by marriage - an uncle married her first cousin, Angela Spencer.

 

  Casanova. 

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Naw!! I'm just a descendant of southern folk.

So you’re an umpteenth-generation redneck?

Myself, I am descended from Eastern European Jews, some who were raped by Cossacks, some who were rounded up and gassed by the Nazis, and others who escaped, which is why I am here posting this.

I come from a long line of scoundrels. 

You can easily confuse hillbillies and rednecks with race car drivers and bikees so try not to that please. I myself, am more of a quaint Irish ain't from my mother's side and a mad dog Englishmean from my father's side and some French which inclines me to be a mensch. French-English-Irish-Canadian..Old World..How did I get so mixed up? This post was edited by CosmicWunderkind at June 30, 2022 9:04 PM MDT

Genghis Khan.

No. But my husband is related to the French royalty. 

Edward Rowe Snow was on my mothers side and Mildred Snow my grandmothers brother.

Edward Rowe Snow is best remembered as a New England maritime historian and a Flying Santa. A proprietor of the Boston Athenæum and Massachusetts native, Snow was born in 1902. He graduated high school at the age of 16 and for the next decade traveled the world working on oil tankers, sailing ships, and also as a Hollywood extra. He entered Harvard in 1929, graduated in three years by attending summer sessions in 1932, the year he married Anna-Myrle Haegg. He was a history high school teacher in Winthrop but left to write and lecture full time. He wrote for the Patriot Ledger in Quincy from 1957 until 1982, lectured, and made several radio and TV interviews (some of which can be found on YouTube). During the war, Snow was a member of the US Air Force, Twelfth Bomber Command. He was wounded in 1942 over North Africa and discharged in 1943 because of those wounds.

A descendant of sea captains and an avid explorer, Snow found shipwrecks, coins, and other artifacts on his boating trips around Boston Harbor. He defined island as “a body of land surrounded by adventure" in Secrets of the North Atlantic Islands and worked hard to preserve Massachusetts's islands. An example is Georges Island: when Logan Airport wanted to extend on runway that would harm Fort Warren, Snow fought to save it and it is now in the state's park system.

This post was edited by CosmicWunderkind at June 30, 2022 9:05 PM MDT

Yes!  Robert the Bruce, who was a king of Scotland, is one of my ancestors.