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 ![smile](/inc/images/smile.gif)
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
![hehe](/inc/images/hehe.gif)
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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