07-16-2005, 12:52 AM
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Alrighty then.
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Who are you related to?
Is there anyone famous in your family's past? What about someone that just did something interesting and/or monumental.
I don't know his name, but someone in my family is on the Declaration of Independance. I could probably dig it up. As far as I know he never really got well known for anything else. Pretty cool though because I really admire that document and the people who where involved.
My great-grandfather was a pretty brilliant and self educated engineer. Supposedly he invented the Lazy-Boy but it was taken by the company he worked for. Could be family ledgend..I don't know. He worked for Boing as a basic worker and in his spare time calculated what would be saved in materials and fuel of the resulting plane if just two threads where cut off the end of all screws and bolts in the plane. He started working upstairs shortly thereafter. Him and his wife hitched over here from the east in the early 1900's. He wrote a history of the family but I haven't seen a copy since I was like 6...that would be sad if none are left.
On my father's side my grandfather came here from Cornwall as a child. Of course the name Roberts comes from England somewhere I think and has been around forever and is all over the damn place...but I don't know anything much about that side...
Anyway, that is all I know of...how bout you?
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07-16-2005, 01:27 AM
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I'm pretty sure we're hooked up with John Wayne somewhere along the line. Also a possibility is the guy that did the famous radio broadcast when the Hindenburg. "Oh the humanity!!" He might have been one of ours too, lol.
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07-16-2005, 07:21 AM
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Famous Artist
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I think I am related to EVH  |
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07-16-2005, 07:31 AM
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I'm related to Lincoln, but only by marrige. But it's something! My Mom has all the documents to prove it. So if anyone should get a chance to sleep in the Lincoln Bedroom at the Whitehouse, I think it should be me  |
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07-16-2005, 08:48 AM
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I GARAWWWNTEE!!!!!
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Originally Posted by GuitarPlayingPJ
I'm related to Lincoln, but only by marrige. But it's something! My Mom has all the documents to prove it. So if anyone should get a chance to sleep in the Lincoln Bedroom at the Whitehouse, I think it should be me |
According to my cousin, who is doing a whole family tree thing on her Dads side of the familly( Garrett), John Wilks Boothe, I believe he's the one right?, was captured after assasinating Lincoln, at Garretts farm,their relatives.....
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07-16-2005, 08:51 AM
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Randy Travis is my third cousin, his orignal name was Randy Traywick which is my grandmothers maiden name. Fortunately for me he doesn't know I exist in the world!
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07-16-2005, 09:32 AM
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Alrighty then.
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Originally Posted by Mike4beka
Randy Travis is my third cousin, his orignal name was Randy Traywick which is my grandmothers maiden name. Fortunately for me he doesn't know I exist in the world!
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I take it you don't like his music
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“Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it.” – Brian W. Kernighan
When you find yourself at the bottom of a hole, stop digging.
I think in code: while(1) execute();
I'd rather die when I'm living then when I'm dead.
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07-16-2005, 09:37 AM
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The Little Rascals
Yes I said The Little Rascals. I am related to Alfalfa. No kidding... And no my hair doesn't stick up in the back of my head. His name is Carl Dean "Alfalfa" Switzer. And Harry Parker, he was a pitcher mostly for St. Louis Cardinals, Back in the 70's.
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07-16-2005, 09:40 AM
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Alrighty then.
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Originally Posted by JPF
According to my cousin, who is doing a whole family tree thing on her Dads side of the familly( Garrett), John Wilks Boothe, I believe he's the one right?, was captured after assasinating Lincoln, at Garretts farm,their relatives.....
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HAH, what a tangled web  We got someone related to Lincoln, and someone related to the people tried to hide his assassin.
Actually, reading on the internet doesn't show the Garretts knew who they were sheltering and may have just been nice people who let a couple guys sleep in the shed. Do you know either way?
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The more sex we have the more we want and the less sex we have the more we want.
“Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it.” – Brian W. Kernighan
When you find yourself at the bottom of a hole, stop digging.
I think in code: while(1) execute();
I'd rather die when I'm living then when I'm dead.
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07-16-2005, 09:52 AM
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After an exhaustive geneaology search on the net, I think I may be realted to Adam and possibly Eve too.........still more searching to do. 
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07-16-2005, 02:09 PM
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I GARAWWWNTEE!!!!!
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Originally Posted by nroberts
HAH, what a tangled web We got someone related to Lincoln, and someone related to the people tried to hide his assassin.
Actually, reading on the internet doesn't show the Garretts knew who they were sheltering and may have just been nice people who let a couple guys sleep in the shed. Do you know either way? |
Ya , there really has'nt been a connection between Boothe and the Garretts, I think they just figured he was running from the cops,and hid out in their barn.....
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Take your hand off the monkey Billy!!!!.....
"And she knows it hurt's, but she doesn't feel the sting......
And she knows it hurts, but she's not feeling, anything......
When the lines are down, and there's nothing, getting in"..........from the song "She Knows" by Goport
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07-16-2005, 07:52 AM
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Originally Posted by nroberts
I don't know his name, but someone in my family is on the Declaration of Independance. I could probably dig it up. As far as I know he never really got well known for anything else. Pretty cool though because I really admire that document and the people who where involved.
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I call bullshit. Before making some half-ass remark about a relative signing the Declaration of Independence, you need to be ready to back it up, my brother.
I want to see some proof. 
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07-16-2005, 08:04 AM
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Da Blooze Guy
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Supposedly we are related to Kit Carson, mountain man, yada, yada. It is on my mothers side. If you're ever up around Chehalis, Washington, there is the Kit Carson Restaurant, built by my grandmother in honor of the alleged relationship, she was supposed to have proof, but I have never seen it. As far as any other relatioinships, when I was a kid, my mother was convinced I was a direct descendant of the Devil, but alas again I have no proof. 
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07-16-2005, 08:37 AM
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My Mum was dating Cozy Powell's Dad back in the late 70's. I figured I coulda got loads of Blackmore's guitars but I never met him and it fizzled out.  |
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07-16-2005, 04:43 PM
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Alrighty then.
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Originally Posted by El_jalepeno
I call bullshit. Before making some half-ass remark about a relative signing the Declaration of Independence, you need to be ready to back it up, my brother.
I want to see some proof. |
I have the book now and supposedly I am related to Oliver Wolcott. However, that generation of the line looks a little hazy in our line my great grandfather searched for. I haven't been able to link it the way he did. However, I did find this site:
http://www.rootsweb.com/~nyorlean/mtpluv.htm
That has a Mary Wolcott Underhill who married Eleazer Underhill and had a son George Underhill. All the dates match what I have for these three and this is our link to the Wolcott family. George had a daughter named Anne Jenette who married Edwin Dunlap; looks like Anne died when she was 30 and Edwin remaried a Sara House. They had a son named George Ledlie Dunlap who had a son named David Dunlap, who is my great grandfather.
Also, Oliver Wolcott married a Collins, and that was my great grandmother's maiden name so there could be a double link to him because my grandfather didn't dig up the Collins name much further than a few generations.
The focus of the book I have is of course on the Dunlaps. There was also a John Dunlap in the book who lived during the right time...a John Dunlap (or Dunlop depending on the site you read) printed the Declaration.
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“Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it.” – Brian W. Kernighan
When you find yourself at the bottom of a hole, stop digging.
I think in code: while(1) execute();
I'd rather die when I'm living then when I'm dead.
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