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Do you have any famous relatives or ancestors?

I am in Ostersund, Sweden now, a town that my great-great-great-grandfather founded.  I went to the archives today to see if I have any living relatives here and the receptionist there was very impressed, said she was "honored" to meet me!  He has a huge monument at the cemetery.  Some other ancestors were very successful at other things.

Posted - July 25, 2017
Tag : fame relatives

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  • 7126
    My uncle invented air sickness bags. 
      July 25, 2017 4:00 PM MDT
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  • 3523
    My father, the doctor, is invented osteoporosis.
      July 26, 2017 12:45 PM MDT
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  • 7126
    I have a bone to pick with him.  
      July 26, 2017 12:48 PM MDT
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  • 11127
    My mother's aunt's husband's son's wife (or some shirttail relative) painted this painting.




      July 25, 2017 5:25 PM MDT
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  • 3523
    That looks really good!  I wish I could see it in more detail.
      July 26, 2017 12:47 PM MDT
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  • 11127
    The painting is titled 'Grace' and has been reproduced about as many times as the Mona Lisa. 
      July 26, 2017 12:56 PM MDT
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  • 22891
    not that i know of
      July 25, 2017 5:49 PM MDT
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  • 46117
    My dad is God.



      July 25, 2017 5:54 PM MDT
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  • 7126
    My grandpa is Colonel Sanders.




      July 25, 2017 6:10 PM MDT
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  • 2657
    Does Noah count?
      July 25, 2017 6:39 PM MDT
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  • 3523
    Well I hope he could count to two!
      July 26, 2017 12:49 PM MDT
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  • 2657
    Lol
      July 26, 2017 1:36 PM MDT
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  • 6988
    Actor Franchot Tone was my 4th cousin. He was in many movies ( Mutiny on the Bounty, 1935) plus The Twilight Zone, Wagon Train, Ben Casey etc, television series) He was married to Joan Crawford for a while. Then there was John Reid, an early steam engine builder who built the engine for the Adriatic, a ship featured on a U.S. postage stamp from the 1860's. Then there is a Capt. Lewis who married George Washington's sister, Bess. 
      July 25, 2017 9:55 PM MDT
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  • Word in my family is that "P.T. Barnum" is somewhere in the family tree.
    I'm also related to the guy below ... "John Steele" played by Red Buttons in "The Longest Day"

      July 25, 2017 9:59 PM MDT
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  • I'm a descendant of the Hatfield clan form the Hatfield's and McCoy's . Not really famous, but kinda well known. 
      July 26, 2017 5:42 AM MDT
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  • My sister married a Hatfield (true story). He left home, one day, and never returned (true story). 
    Haven't heard from him, have you? :)
      July 26, 2017 5:53 AM MDT
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  • 2657
    Brace yousef for what I bout's ta said.
    Them there chicken thieving McCoy's got em. Somebody git a rope! 
      July 26, 2017 6:01 AM MDT
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  • Ya reckon?
      July 26, 2017 6:08 AM MDT
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  • 2657
    Reckon so. 
      July 26, 2017 6:20 AM MDT
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  • Bless both y'alls hearts......
      July 26, 2017 12:13 PM MDT
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  • 2657
    Lol.
    When someone says something like bless someones heart, it usually is accompanied by a passive aggressive insult. In my family anyways.
      July 26, 2017 5:40 PM MDT
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  • So....you know the secret code??? 
      July 26, 2017 5:42 PM MDT
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  • 2657
    Yup, someone dun let the cat out of da bag.
      July 26, 2017 5:45 PM MDT
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  • 11127
    Watch who you're calling chicken thieves. I'm a McCoy!
      July 26, 2017 7:48 AM MDT
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