I'm related to Elvis.

[Robb]

Seriously. And not particularly distantly, either.

Who are you related to that's a little odd?

[SarahB]

1. The Wright Brothers.

[AverageJoe]

2. I had a fifth or sixth cousin on the Warren Commission

Senator John Sherman Cooper (R. KY)

[EstimatedProphet]

3. King Duncan from MacBeth

[REP]

4. Elvis

For real.

[Democracy White]

5. My stepdad is related to the Confederate General F. Lee Baily

I think that's right, that is his name? And get this... my stepdad is black... I wonder how that happened.

Dee

[AntiCoup2K4]

24. You mean Robert E. Lee?

F. Lee Bailey is a lawyer. and he's old, but not THAT old.

[Drifter]

6. According to the Bible ...

we are related to Adam and Eve.

Cheers
Drifter

[gmoney]

17. but all their descendents were wiped out

...in Noah's flood, right? All except Noah's family of 8... so we're all descended from them, right?

[johnnie]

7. How are you related?

Just curious.

[Robb]

9. Mom's side were Presleys. n/t

[REP]

11. Hell. You're Related To Me, Then, Too

I'm related through the Presley line (not as closely as you are, though).

[johnnie]

14. That's pretty cool

I'm an Elvis fan. Was your mom one of his cousins? It's cool if you don't want to get into detail here. I would be curious though if you want to PM me though.

[REP]

8. Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman

My family raised him and he married into it.

Adlai E Stevenson.

The guy whose house the Boston Tea Party was planned in.

[ScreamingMeemie]

10. My husband is a cousin of Hugh Hefner.

No joke.

[JanMichael]

12. Mary Queen of Scots and Daniel Boone.

But I'm most proud of my marriage to Stephanie the Great.

[REP]

16. I'm Related to Sarah Morgan Boone - Daniel's Mother

One of her brothers, Edward, is my direct ancestor. If you're interested in Morgan family history, PM me.

[JanMichael]

18. Ok, I have to admit this...I'm adopted into that line.

They're (Am I through the courts) also somehow linked to the Ingalls family.

[GreenPartyVoter]

13. Myself. I am my grandfather's own cousin. (for real) Am also related to

my own hubby.

What can I say? Small island life is... cozy. :P

[ofrfxsk]

20. What? How? nt

[GreenPartyVoter]

26. I will have to get the details from my dad But I think it's another case

of cousins marrying cousins or something. It was pretty weird, anyhoo

[elshiva]

15. Joseph Smith, prophet of Mormonism

His mother was Lucy Mack and my grandmother's maidenname was Mack, same family.

[mwdem]

19. Nascar,

Pettys, by marraige.

[Spider Jerusalem]

21. Dr. Samuel Mudd.

He was an acquaintance of John Wilkes Booth, and after Booth broke his leg whilst escaping from Ford's Theatre, he went to Mudd to have it set. Mudd was sentenced to life in prison for conspiracy in the murder of Lincoln, and pardoned by Andrew Johnson for his actions in treating the victims of a yellow fever epidemic that killed the prison doctor.

Also, Francis Scott Key, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and (ugh) George W. Bush.

[REP]

28. So's My Loved One; His Grandmother Was a Mudd

And one of my relatives (not direct ancestors) defended him.

[Spider Jerusalem]

29. He's (possibly) related to Key and Fitzgerald, too, then...

my connection to all three is common descent from a Captain Luke Gardiner who was in Maryland by the mid-1600's.

[AntiCoup2K4]

22. So Elvis is a dingbat then?

:shrug:

[WCGreen]

23. No one real famous

But I have an ancestor who was grabbed up in Ireland in that early 1700's and taken to the colonies as a slave...

Two relatives served in the Revolutionary Army....

[AntiCoup2K4]

25. I have Outlaw blood (as in old west style outlaws)

The Daltons are in my dad's family tree and my mom has cousins named Frank & Jesse James (presumably descendants of the original?)

And they are from the redneck side of the family too.

[jmm]

27. I'm related to a bunch of odd people

but none of them are famous.

A number of women in my family have met and have been hit on by famous men but they always said no.