The thread in which PHers reveal tenuous links to famous people.
Discussion
psi310398 said:
RustyMX5 said:
Here's a tenuous link. I'm related to a knight who fought in the Crusades.
No desire at all to pee on your chips, but aren’t most of us? I seem to recall that some 98% of the Western European population (at least the white population) can trace back to Charlemagne himself. psi310398 said:
But I guess a direct, ie unbroken, male descent could be trickier to establish and statistically at lot more interesting.
Yes, there was a clear male line up to my great grandfather.Doofus said:
Is he famous though?
Famous? Probably not in modern terms although the records that were found would suggest he was a noble. Not an A-List royal but probably a C-List Country Squire.RustyMX5 said:
psi310398 said:
RustyMX5 said:
Here's a tenuous link. I'm related to a knight who fought in the Crusades.
No desire at all to pee on your chips, but aren’t most of us? I seem to recall that some 98% of the Western European population (at least the white population) can trace back to Charlemagne himself. psi310398 said:
But I guess a direct, ie unbroken, male descent could be trickier to establish and statistically at lot more interesting.
Yes, there was a clear male line up to my great grandfather.Doofus said:
Is he famous though?
Famous? Probably not in modern terms although the records that were found would suggest he was a noble. Not an A-List royal but probably a C-List Country Squire.Abbott said:
All you need to do is find a link to some landed gentry. The family trees going up from there are usually very well documented
Here we are:https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/humans-...
Fascinating stuff.
80quattro said:
My cousin is a music exec and has signed numerous famous musicians, including Ed Sheeran, who he signed before he released his first single. My other cousins' hubby has a BAFTA for animation. However, I'm not sure if either are therefore famous as such.
He'd be more famous if he'd turned down Ed Sheeran .No one has heard of the guy who signed The Beatles, but there's a wiki page dedicated to the guys who turned them down. Now that's fame
jdw100 said:
President Merkin said:
One of Brucie's Play your cards right dolly dealers was in the year below me at school. I think there were about thirty of them overall, so not much of a claim to fame.
About thirty? Can you be more accurate?Higher or lower?
(This comment could have been different but I thought it might get deleted)
I went to a funeral recently where one of the fellow mourners was former Aston Villa goalkeeper, Nigel Spink.
Being a lifelong Villa fan it felt rather awkward to ask him to autograph my order of service, so I gave it a swerve and just gave a polite hello at the coffee stand at the wake!
Being a lifelong Villa fan it felt rather awkward to ask him to autograph my order of service, so I gave it a swerve and just gave a polite hello at the coffee stand at the wake!
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