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Question: Do you have any famous ancestors or relatives!?
I'm descended from Ralph Waldo Emerson!.Www@QuestionHome@Com


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depending on which side you look at on my mother's side I have the following :

Andrew Carnagie =Steel Baron (his granddaughter married my great grandfather's dad

Capt!. Benjamin Mackall- Captin in the American Revolutionary War

Corporal Samual Mackall - his son , same war

Pri!. John Thomas Mackall - 1st American Paratrooper killed in Action WW2- Wounded at the Invasion of N!. Africa buried at the Rock of Gilbralter (also has an army base named after him !.!.!. its now known as Fort Bragg) he is my grandmother's brother , my great uncle

on my father's side

Ann Putnam - responsible for the Salem Witch Trials

Katherine Hepburn - (actress )distant cousin ( my 9th great grandfather is her 8th great grandfather

Audrey Hepburn (actress )distant cousin (cousin to Katerine)

Amelia Earhart- Female Pilot married to my 6th cousin George Palmer Putnam

Oliver Winchester - creator of the winchester repeating rifle!.!. my 10th great grandmother is his 4th great grandmother !.!. his son married Sara Lockwood (the one with the haunted house with the 116 rooms)

I'm sure there are more but i'm still working on my family tree , I also know that Daniel Boone the explorer lived with some of my relatives on my mom's side ( have the census re cords with him listed!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

No famous direct ancestors!. :(
But, at least a third of my ancestors were British colonists, so I can claim very distant relationships to a few presidents and first ladies and even more distantly, some Hollywood royalty!. I love using the Ancestry!.com "find famous relatives" tool and finding out Elvis is an 8th cousin once removed or Agatha Christie is a 4th cousin!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

I'm distantly related to Laura Ingalls Wilder, the Wright Brothers, Ulysses S!. Grant, Amelia Earhart, Alan Shepard, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Franklin D!. Roosevelt and some Irish President!.!.!.!.!.
These are the decendants of the Warren/Cooke Family that came to America on the Mayflower!. =DWww@QuestionHome@Com

None that I know of, but I am Scandinavian, so I might have viking ancestors!. That would explain my constant urge to ravage and pillage small coastal towns!.!.!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Mozart baby!. My ancestor's music makes plant grow faster!. What can Ralph Waldo Emerson do!?Www@QuestionHome@Com

Sacajawea, Eli Whitney, and some Egyptian noblesWww@QuestionHome@Com

I think I may be related to Robert Burns (the Scottish poet)!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

No not that I know of!. My family has roots in Spain but thats about it!.Www@QuestionHome@Com