Related to any famous shooters or founding fathers?

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I don't have a lot of money, but I come from great stock! Mayflower descendant and forefathers that fought in the Revolutionary War.

None, however stand as tall as my Dad and my late friend "Joe". They fought and were wounded in the storming of the beaches at Normandy during WW2. I've always found it interesting that the REAL heros, the ones who saw and did it all, hardly ever say a word about it.
 
Ironically, my friend Adam Hamilton is not related to Alexander Hamilton, but he is related to James Madison. Go figure. Me? I don't think I'm related to any famous shooters or founding fathers, but I am named after Nathanael Greene. Well, according to my father. My mother says I'm named after the 13th disciple, Nathaniel/Bartholomew.
Whatever. The only marginally historic ancestry I've got is the Thoburn family, a sub-clan of the Scots. We were almost all killed off in the battle of Culloden. The rest of us were sent to Northern Ireland and then moved to America in the mid to late 1800s.
 
My wife is related to Abraham Lincoln.
I am a proud member of Col. J.D. "Jeff" Cooper's extended family.
 
Direct descendent of Simon Kenton

Simon Kenton was one of the original Kentucky Colonels, and the subject of the best-selling book, The Frontiersman. I am also a direct descendant of a Revolutionary War veteran, Henry Lutz.
 
well no founding fathers but on my moms side i am related to abe lincoln. also not american but on my dads side my family were like nobles in medival holland and there is an old castle named after my family it is now a tourist attraction
 
Moms side. Not much to say as her family came over during WWII. they actually went to mexico. Then after the war her mother and father moved to california. So i have relatives i have never met in Mexico. Some relatives in Italy. Never met them either. Not to sure i want to either as i no habla.

Ok fathers side. HUGE ROOTS. My great aunt traced our family back to the 1500's. My fathers side of the family came here in the early 1800's from spain. In California, there were also some relatives who rode with pancho villa. Some of the family early on lived in mexico. then somewhere around 1820 most moved to San Gabriel Valley in California. In fact my great uncle had pictures that went back to the 1820's. Most of our family were farmers some businessmen. Most spoke spanish and everything. No real famous gun men or people though.

Though it was said we killed a lot of Frenchman.



Sorry Gary
 
None, however stand as tall as my Dad and my late friend "Joe". They fought and were wounded in the storming of the beaches at Normandy during WW2. I've always found it interesting that the REAL heros, the ones who saw and did it all, hardly ever say a word about it.
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I will drink to that. Grandfather
WWII Tank Destroyers
 
Founding father: On dad's side we are related (distant cousins or great, great...great uncle I'm not sure, dad is the genealogist so he'd know the exact relation) to Benjamin Rush, physician, professor, soldier in the Continental Army and signer of the Declaration of Independence.

Famous shooters: Not so famous, but on dad's side we also have some Scot-Irish nobility, several ancestors fought in the Revolution, and a bunch on the Union side of the Civil War.

Mother's side: Since in much of Eastern Europe it was illegal for Jews to own guns, no shooters let alone famous shooters. My great-grandmother was the sole survivor of a pogrom so she wasn't a famous shooter, but she was on the target side of an infamous anti-semitic tactic using guns and other weapons.
 
My dad was a WWII vet.

He survived the war, and went on to develop the process, and obtain the patent, for the continuous polymerization process for manufacturing Kevlar fiber.
See http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-...50&s1=3849074.PN.&OS=PN/3849074&RS=PN/3849074

Stephanie Kwolek developed the formula for Kevlar. Problem was, nobody could get it to run through a spinning-machine for more than a couple minutes - and then it would gum up the works - requiring a complete disassembly and cleaning of the machine (required many hours) before it could be re-started.

After about a year of experimenting with different "fixes," Dad "invented" this gizmo that cleared the clog instantly, and without any need to disassemble the spinning machine.

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I used a spool of one of the early batches as kite-string when I was a youngster.
It wasn't named Kevlar yet. Dad just referred to it as "PRD-58."
(Project Research and Design formula 58)
PRD-58 was unsuitable as kite-string because it was too fine-gauge, and would slice into a tree branch like a knife.
Once it cut into the bark, it would hang, and the kite-flier was done.
No amount of pulling on the line would break it.
All you could do is cut it at the spool. The kite would stay marooned.

They found a better use for Kevlar anyway.
At least I think this soldier would agree.

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Dad's grandson (my nephew) now works at DuPont, shooting Kevlar daily, and developing data for soft body-armor development.
 
Who am I related to...

Doc Holliday and I share the same grandmother (as in great great great great etc grandmother) and ironically, also related to Johnny Ringo. No lie. Also a direct descendant of Thomas Lindley, the owner of the mill in "The battle of Lindley's Mill" which took place in South Carolina in the Revolutionary War.
 
PS I have been verbally told that we are descendants of Jesse James, but have yet to see any evidence which verifies that.. Seems to me like the James family is pretty big, I have seen about 3 posts on this topic of James descendants, and thats just the 3 pages I have looked at!
 
My family came over in 1650 to Virginia, surname Floyd.

Fighters in both the Revolutionary War and The War of Northern Aggression. My great grandfather was in the S.C. Cavalry.

There is a Floyd signer of the Declaration of Independence, but we haven't determined that branch. They were from Long Island New York.

They claim, but I haven't seen proof; that Pretty Boy Floyd, the gangster was one of ours.
 
I was told by my grandmother on my mom's side that she was a descendant of Benjamin Franklin.
(But then again from what I have read about the man.... LOTS of people could truthfully say that.)

:evil:
 
No offense to everyone here but who the Heck Cares? Honestly I can trace my ancestry back to some pretty famous folks but what good does it do me. None quite frankly --I didn't get their Noble titles, their cash or much of anything except their genetic input. I appreciate these folks for existing and leading to my creation but just because My Great to the Gazillionith power Gramps Ruled a European Nation that and a quarter will buy me a Gumball.

Just my .02
 
I am a descendent of John Hart, Signer of the Declaration of Independence. Through Deborah Scudder, wife of John Hart, I am descended from several of the royal families of Europe and Charlemagne. Also trace my ancestry to at least 12 Revolutionary War soldiers.
 
2RCO....

Misery, Mo must be perfectly named. You dont need to add your .02 to every thread you read if you dont like to content. It's somewhere in the rules... you can pass.:rolleyes:
 
The only famous person my family claims an ancestor (and I've never actually seen any proof) is Simon Fraser, Lord Lovat (1667-1747), chief of the Clan Fraser. His claims to fame were rape, treason, and being the last man in Britain to be beheaded on Tower Hill, London.

He's not one of our founding fathers, but I think one of his sons emigrated to Canada.

Pretty sure he wasn't a famous shooter, but I found this quote on Wikepedia:

Hitherto nothing seems to have been known among the Jacobite exiles of the efficiency of the Highlanders as a military force. But Lovat saw that, as they were the only part of the British population accustomed to the independent use of arms, they could be at once put in action against the reigning power.
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Apparently he recognized a militia when he saw one.
 
umm not many founding fathers

we had several family members fight in the revolution
my great grandfather or something like that was a senator from wyoming robert galbraith

my grandfathers uncle (other side of the family) was the commanding general of all polish forces in WWII and WWI izydor modelski please keep the polish jokes to your self

im also a chenault some where down the line im related to claire lee chenault founder of the flying tigers

in scottland we have the picture of a family member hanging in edinborough hall

al jolson is my great uncle (jazz singer)

norman krasna (oscer winning writer) is also my great uncle he married als wife after he died he had adolph hitlers lamp and fire place tools from his office not sure which office he took them during the war

my mothers father was on the last boat that left dunkirk

my father is a retired colnel vietnam vet bronze start recipiant and my personal hero

there are a few more im forgetting

terrybob
Zachary Taylor
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then you are a friend of mines relative his name is max tayler his grandfather is named after zachary taylor they are direct lineage
 
Genealogy is one of my favorite pastimes, especially in the winter months. Though very convoluted I can take you through the branches that lead to G.W Bush (unfortunately also John Kerry) FDR, Winston Churchill, Princess Diana, Phillip Livingstone (signatory of the Declaration of Independence) Double digit cousins all. The one that I'm trying to track down that has eluded me so far is a reference by a Great, Great, Great Grandmother that we were kin to Wild Bill Hickok somehow.
Just to show how carried away one can get with this. King Henry the First is my 20th great grandfather. It's cheaper than therapy.
 
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