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1198926 No.1198926 [Reply] [Original]

Anybody else into genealogy or interested?

My name is Cole and it is really a great hobby.

Post in this thread if you know your related to someone famous?

>> No.1198932

genfag here. I am related to George Clooney. He is a 5th cousin.

>> No.1198936 [DELETED] 

Not /lit/.

>> No.1198939

what is this i don't even

>> No.1198940

Not /lit/

But I am related to John Dillinger.

>> No.1198942

Geneology is a load of bullshit.

They trace your heritage to a certain point where data is insufficient, then they just lie and say you're related to some famous person. That's why EVERYONE who's ever gone to a genealogist thinks they're related to someone famous.

It's why Chris chan thinks he's descended from royalty

>> No.1198943

I am not related to Salman Rushdie, for I am Salman Rushdie.

>> No.1198978

It's called genealogy collapse. "...with two parents, four grandparents, eight great grandparents and so on. If the average generation is twenty-five years, in 1200 years (back to 800 AD, the time of Charlemagne) each person has 281.5 trillion grandparents"

There weren't that many people around then.

>> No.1198989

I'm the son of Barbara Bush, does that count?

>> No.1198991

>>1198989
lol

>> No.1198998

I'm related to a presidential assassin.

>> No.1199025

Descended from Hugh le Despenser, an actual "evil baron" who started a war in England by being the king's favorite and pissing off all the other nobles. Unfortunately, family lore holds that his son and grandson squandered the family fortune on cockfighting... Anyhoo, I've sure never seen any of it.