Many of us have famous ancestors Who are yours?

[TaunTaun]

I have a couple ancestors who were involved with writing the original Indiana constitution and the Ohio constitution. Supposedly there is a pirate there as well, but is a bit hard to confirm. There were officers and enlisted in War of 1812 and Revolutionary war. Some were scouts, some were captains of ships.

The wife is related to a couple cavalry officers and pilots awarded for combat in WW2, 1812, and 1776.

Not so much famous, but a proud history to be from. Supposedly one of those 1812 officers were responsible for wiping out a good portion of the natives in Penn...

 

[indiucky]

Salem Witch Trials Notable Persons

Seriously?????Is he really an ancestor???

I heard on PBS that the reason behind the witch trials was some good folk tripping on acid that had infested the rye they made their bread with....It's a pretty good episode of "Secrets of the Dead" and by the end of the show I believed there was something to that theory....

[video=youtube;rCHcmZm529c]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCHcmZm529c[/video]

 

[HoughMade]

Seriously?????Is he really an ancestor???

I heard on PBS that the reason behind the witch trials was some good folk tripping on acid that had infested the rye they made their bread with....It's a pretty good episode of "Secrets of the Dead" and by the end of the show I believed there was something to that theory....

[video=youtube;rCHcmZm529c]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCHcmZm529c[/video]

Yes, he is.

Ergot poisoning, ergot being a fungus related to LSD is a very plausible theory for some of the cases.

 

[indiucky]

Yes, he is.

Ergot poisoning, ergot being a fungus related to LSD is a very plausible theory for some of the cases.

I read some of the trial transcripts and it seemed to me that a couple of the young ladies were on a "bad trip"....They were clawing at themselves and hallucinating in a big way...I never bought into the theory that they were acting that way out of malice to get even with neighbors or the way Liberals tried to connect the Witch Trials to the McCarthy hearings....Neat family history there Sir...

 

[Scuba591]

George Francis McGinnis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Post master General of Indianapolis.

The Rockefellers by marriage.

My Grandfather left the Navy as a Lt. Commander and went to work at Ingersoll Rand and headed the program to develop and build the LVT and LST WWII amphibious crafts.

 

[Mark 1911]

Does being a son of God count?

(other than that, I am pretty much infamous)

 

[HoughMade]

Does being a son of God count?

(other than that, I am pretty much infamous)

[video=youtube;0b6_i_eSgR8]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0b6_i_eSgR8[/video]

 

[db1959]

So I have been told...
Burke and Hare murders - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[Mark 1911]

[video=youtube;0b6_i_eSgR8]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0b6_i_eSgR8[/video]

And I haven't even shot myself in the foot yet!

 

[Dosproduction]

My grampa was cousins with Patsy Cline. Her actual last name is Hensley as is mine. Patsy Cline - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[Mr Evilwrench]

By recent findings it seems I have a line going back to the Mayflower. My mom's looking into it.

 

[plinker1]

Cousin of Charlie Pitts....James gang member killed at the Northfield MN robbery.

 

[OutdoorDad]

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no one of consequence.
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[17 squirrel]

In the early 1800s, my family help found Newburgh, IN. It was originally named Sprinkleville, Warrick County, IN. The Sprinkle name is on my Mother's side of the Family and is still a name found in Southwestern Indiana. One of those relatives was hung as a horse thief. I guess that is in-famous rather that famous, huh?

Humm. Sprinkle you say... Does your mom have a cousin with the name Annie Sprinkle ? If so I saw her show in Baltimore 25 years ago.

 

[Principal Skinr]

I've got only one that I'd call famous, but he is a doozie! Winston Churchill, cousin, 9 times removed. I'm related on his mother's side.

 

[SchwansManDan]

My ancestors? Mostly boring people who sailed across the Atlantic in the 1600s & 1700s. Some of my other ancestors were here to greet them when they came ashore.

There were a couple of them who were interesting, in that Wolphert Gerretse Van Kouwenhoven was the founder of the first European colony on Long Island, and another, Winifred Benham, was accused of witchcraft in Connecticut the late 1600s.

It's the distant cousins who are a bit more interesting: Wilbur & Orville Wright, Michael Douglas, and a couple of ne'er-do-wells named Roosevelt.

 

[Bigtanker]

Distant, distant cousin:

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Took me a minute (and a Google search)