Or do you know if you are?


My mother had tried to find out for the longest time who she was related to and where her family came from, but everybody kept it a big secret because they couldn't be bothere to discuss anything unimportant like that. And she tried the ancestry websites, they didn't work, so she had a friend who's a librarian check out the genealogy herself, and she found out that my mother is the great great great great great something or other granddaughter of Anne Dudley Bradstreet, the first American woman poet published. And when she found out she said that makes sense because a lot of the people on her side of the family do write, us included. And I can't help but think, if great great great great whatever, Grandmother was alive, what she'd think of the stuff I write.

Nah, we are all painfully plain in this clan.

Former NBA player John Salley is my cousin.

Nystyle709 wrote:

Former NBA player John Salley is my cousin.

No way! That is very cool. His last NBA team was the Bulls, wasn't it?

Distantly, distantly related to kid show host Sandy Becker. He passed in 1996 and I never met him.

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0065579/bio

RedBedroom wrote:

Nah, we are all painfully plain in this clan.

One of my great-grandmother's sisters was married to Raymond Duncan, brother of famed dancer Isadora Duncan, so I suppose there's a relation by marriage there.

Also, I'm somehow a cousin of actress Daphne Zuniga. I'd have to browse my family tree info to determine exactly how, but basically we have a common ancestor who had 2 families going at the same time in the late 1800's--one in Finland, one in America, and after he died, all the dirt came out! LOL

Not to my knowledge.

Hyacinth Girl wrote:

One of my great-grandmother's sisters was married to Raymond Duncan, brother of famed dancer Isadora Duncan, so I suppose there's a relation by marriage there.

Also, I'm somehow a cousin of actress Daphne Zuniga. I'd have to browse my family tree info to determine exactly how, but basically we have a common ancestor who had 2 families going at the same time in the late 1800's--one in Finland, one in America, and after he died, all the dirt came out! LOL

Cool...but better stay out of open Bugattis

Hyacinth Girl wrote:

One of my great-grandmother's sisters was married to Raymond Duncan, brother of famed dancer Isadora Duncan, so I suppose there's a relation by marriage there.

Also, I'm somehow a cousin of actress Daphne Zuniga. I'd have to browse my family tree info to determine exactly how, but basically we have a common ancestor who had 2 families going at the same time in the late 1800's--one in Finland, one in America, and after he died, all the dirt came out! LOL

kool! u related to Jo