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22nd April 2005, 01:16 PM
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Reps: 27,880,487,860 (power: 27,880,499) | | | Any famous people in your genealogy? I have two Declaration of Independence signers. The Lees.
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22nd April 2005, 01:24 PM
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| | Join Date: 1st September 2004
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Reps: 40,747 (power: 54) | | | me too!! Ok, well I've got one (Rutledge) but he & his brother were also governors of South Carolina... also related to Abe Lincoln & the Bushes... | 
23rd April 2005, 12:17 AM
|  | Just a humble servant 47  | | Join Date: 30th March 2005
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Reps: 17,056,093,272,505,104 (power: 17,056,093,272,514) | | | No famous people yet...but one that was at two famous battles! Does that count? Jonah Parker was in the 33rd Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Regiment at Chancelorville and Gettysburg in the American Civil war. | 
23rd April 2005, 12:22 AM
|  | Beautiful hearts and minds makes me swoon! :) 53 
| | Join Date: 11th March 2003 Location: Salem, OR
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Reps: 23,367,971 (power: 23,382) | | | Jesse James: on my paternal grandmother's side: her mother's cousin --her mother witnessed James hiding out in the barn.
Samuel Morse: on my maternal grandfather's side. His name and his brothers' middle names had "Morse" and their family shield had 3 dots in it.
Jonathan Loring: also on the maternal side: he rode with Paul Revere on the eve of the revolution.
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24th April 2005, 07:56 AM
|  | Regular Member 29  | | Join Date: 12th January 2005 Location: Cannes
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Reps: 438 (power: 0) | | | On my mother's side, a great rabbi of the jewish portuguese community of Amstserdam and London, Rabbi Joseph Allyon, was one of my ancestors.
Not directly now (cousins), I have more famous people in my family.
- the Captain Dreyfus
- Julia Louis-Dreyfus (and the rest of the Loui-Dreyfus family)
- the Servan-Schreiber family | 
25th April 2005, 03:34 PM
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25th April 2005, 03:47 PM
|  | Resistance is Futile,... You will be assimilated! 25  | | Join Date: 21st April 2005 Location: Texas
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Reps: 304 (power: 0) | | | Betsy Ross. She made the first American Flag and even helped to sew it | 
25th April 2005, 06:05 PM
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Reps: 195 (power: 0) | | | i love famous people in my genealogy | 
25th April 2005, 06:17 PM
| | Junior Member 23  | | Join Date: 15th March 2005
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Reps: 10 (power: 0) | | | Babe Ruth (2nd cousin), Glenn Campbell (some current singer) Missy Logan (formerly in the Christian band RAZE),
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25th April 2005, 07:03 PM
|  | Junior Member 21  | | Join Date: 23rd February 2005 Location: oklahoma
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Reps: 650 (power: 0) | | | do you know any good places to go and research my geneology??? |  | | | Thread Tools | | | | Display Modes | Linear Mode | | | |