# Were your ancestors famous?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-your-ancestors-famous/98822>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [March 18, 2002, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-your-ancestors-famous/98822 "2002-03-18T03:12:16Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Qwertyasdfg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/ecc23a/32.png) [@Qwertyasdfg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qwertyasdfg)\
**Post date:** [June 13, 2002, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-your-ancestors-famous/98822/81 "2002-06-13T01:18:05Z")

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I’ve got Abe Lincoln on my mother’s side.

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**Author:** ![welby1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@welby1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/welby1)\
**Post date:** [June 13, 2002, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-your-ancestors-famous/98822/82 "2002-06-13T01:55:55Z")

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Don’t know about famous, but infamous definitely. My ancestor was, according to family lore, a royal type in Denmark who left under cover of darkness after knocking up a peasant woman.

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**Author:** ![clayton\_e](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c57346/32.png) [@clayton\_e](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/clayton_e)\
**Post date:** [June 13, 2002, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-your-ancestors-famous/98822/83 "2002-06-13T03:37:08Z")

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One of mine came over on the Mayflower.

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**Author:** ![Moirai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/96bed5/32.png) [@Moirai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moirai)\
**Post date:** [June 13, 2002, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-your-ancestors-famous/98822/84 "2002-06-13T03:37:50Z")

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My great-great grandfather founded the town of Friendswood, TX, as a Quaker colony way back when. I think it’s a suburb of Dallas now.

He was a scout, an Indian fighter, a buffalo hunter… yikes!

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**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\
**Post date:** [June 13, 2002, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-your-ancestors-famous/98822/85 "2002-06-13T05:35:51Z")

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I had a many-great grandfather who was an officer in the Civil War (Union side). He was shot through the cheeks (the face cheeks) and had to grow a beard to cover it up. That’s all I got 🙂

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