Hey Pandas, Who Is Your Most Famous Or Interesting Family Member, Living Or Dead? (Closed)

Got three. Francis Scott key. On my moms side. Harriet Beecher Stowe. On the Beecher/moms side. And Lizzie Borden cousin side.

My grandfather, Edwin Webster, is 97 years old. He was born in Canada, traveled west and then south to Northern California with his family as a child. He worked at a canning factory as a child so his family could eat and went on to gain his US Citizenship by joining the US Army during WWII. He served in Germany and Poland. He saw Hitler. He saw the atrocities. He was one of the people who physically pulled people out of the concentration camps during the Holocaust. He came home and put himself through college (Cal Poly San Luis Obispo) by building individual juke boxes and selling them to local restaurants to put on their tables. He didn’t finish college because the Jet Propulsion Laboratory hired him to work on projects headed to space. He worked for several companies, building and testing radios for NASA. His radio was on the Challenger and he was monitoring it when the shuttle exploded. He says no man should have to ever hear the sounds of those astronauts screaming. He retired and worked on his own projects at home and spent so much time with his grandkids. He turned 97 on February 18th and is still creating and inventing.

One of my cousins knows a lot about our family’s history, and found out one of our ancestors came over on the Mayflower!

My grandfather’s aunt ran the most salubrious brothel in Sydney.

On my dads side of the family, people founded part of the norther region of Minnesota, the Merritt Brothers.

Hm….I believe on my mother’s side of the family, President Buchanan is my distant relative. With the addition that another relative was also (might?) a First Lady and a general in the American Revolutionary War.

You can search my uncle, my dad, and my grandpa, and get results. I was the only person in my 3rd grade class that this works with, and it’s mostly still true today with my current homeroom. The results are just Ambata, WWF, FAB, and RFN (more the first 2)

No one famous in my family but some interesting ones. One of the earliest family members to come to Australia was on one of the first orphan ships that came from Ireland during the potato famine. Her ship is listed on the memorial at Williamstown in Victoria.
Another one I find interesting, but also tragic was one of my grandfather's brothers. During WW2 the five eldest (out of 8) signed up to fight. The officials decided five was the limit for one family and the rest needed to stay farming. Unfortunately this meant the 6th brother was refused entry. This was particularly hard as he was a twin and his twin was brother number 5. After a while he couldn't take the devastation and loneliness anymore and left home and wasn't heard from for years.

My Aunt is probably the funniest and most unpredictable person in my family. Out of nowhere she will say the most outlandish things. For example, we were once at a restaurant for a family dinner (mothers day, birthday, something...) and as we are all filing out, weaving through other tables to leave she turns around to me and my mother and says "You know, penises are just ugly..." That's it, end of conversation. She's also an AMAZING cook. She's won numerous awards and is always working on some new and different recipe.

Apparently I’m related to some Scottish kings on my mums side don’t know much but my grampa says they were bros

Joe DiMaggio is my third cousin. He grew up in the same small town as my parents. When my mother was a kid, he would play street baseball with my his cousins, my great uncles.

I am sure my ancestors were all Irish peasants.

My grandmother is Nyla Sahmie she is famous within the hopi tribe for her pottery. (Native American)

My great-great-grandmother (maybe even tripple-great) reached 104 years. On her last Birthday she got interviewed by a local newspaper. In the article she said that she had survived five wars. I went through history-books but couldt not find that fifth war. Plus at least one of the four other wars did not take place were she lived.
Always stay critical when a 104-year-old lady starts telling stories from the past. ;-)

Distantly related to William Penn and Betsy Ross on my mom's side of the family.

My family believes we are related to Marie Curie because we have a grandparent who shares her maiden name (Sklodowska)