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My extended relative speaks to Micheal Moore on the film Farenheit 9/11 and he ran as a Democrat for the US Congress.

Heres one. My great grandfather (or ggg) on my mothers side is mentioned in a book, he was travelling back to north east England on his final voyage to retirement near the end of the first World War. I think he was a submariner tho I don't think he wld be allowed to be at that age - hazy family memory. Germans sank the ship / sub : he perished with all the others.

the wild red hair and long hooked nose that passed down through my father's family was Irish through Spain. In the raiding of England during the Spanish Armada a big storm pushed the Spanish ships to be wrecked along the eastern Irish coast. My ancestor called his name 'Seville' and married an Irish woman, later generations had the wild red beards and the long hooked nose. We always teased my dad that he looked EXACTLY like the Indian on the Indian head nickle, and boy did he!
no american Indian in our family, though.
Merle

Relatively speaking topic

Some of us are just average Joe's and Jane's descendants.

I wrote earlier on some of my more creative ancestors, who were not household names.

Alomov wondered if any members here are just ordinary slobs, like Old Man Chubb.

Another great grandfather was a Canadian carny who travelled with Barnum and Bailey in the late 1800s. He must have met some interesting special people. If there was anyone who was Aspie in my family, he was it. Famous? No.

adam & eve

but seriously i have no famous relatives

My mom's third cousin's cousin was Jesse James.

Odd, my ancestor was Jesse James best friend --no lie.

My Maternal Great Grandfather was a Hemingway and supposedly we are related to Ernest Hemingway.

All in the family topic

You must be related to Mariel and Margaux, then. They were once actresses in Hollywood, as far as I know.

I think Mariel is dead now.

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General George Armstrong Custer (December 5, 1839 – June 25, 1876); a United States Army officer and cavalry commander in the American Civil War and the Indian Wars. At the start of the Civil War, Custer was a cadet at the United States Military Academy at West Point, and his class's graduation was accelerated so that they could enter the war. Custer graduated last in his class, and he won his commission in a card game. He served at the First Battle of Bull Run and was a staff officer for Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan in the Army of the Potomac's 1862 Peninsula Campaign. Early in the Gettysburg Campaign, Custer's association with cavalry commander Maj. Gen. Alfred Pleasonton earned him promotion from first lieutenant to brigadier general of United States Volunteers at the age of 23.

Whether either of these two men was Autie or Aspie is a matter for speculation only.

My ancestors on the Mayflower were John Alden and Priscilla Mullins- the famous love story- and Wlliam Brewster, the pastor. Also in my family are the great- and great-great- grandfathers of Abraham Lincoln, both named Mordecai- my son's name is Mordechai, but I didn't know the name was in the family till my mom died and we found the family tree. Abe Lincoln suffered from severe depression. Could he have been an Aspie too? Why not- everyone else claims him! Also in the family papers is my favorite , Aaron Burt, a hermit who lived in a cave with various barnyard animals. Every so often he would come to town with all his animals decked out in ribbons, enter the church and start preaching and singing. I don't know what he would have been diagnosed with but I'm proud to be related to him!

The only way we usually know about these people is if they kept a diary or figured prominently in some famous person's life. Among my family photos is a tintype of a guy in a Civil War uniform (looks like one, anyway). I know I had ancestors in the Civil War (in every war in this country's history- my family couldn't get along with anybody!) - I'd love to know his story.
Ever notice that when people are hypnotized and remember their past lives, they were always royalty or important people? Didn't the ordinary Joes get recycled?

The 1st vice president and 2nd president: John Adams

I am descended from him through my paternal grandmother. Her family married into that family.

John Wesley Hardin. and he probably had some aspie traits. shooting a man for snoring too loud screams 'sensory processing issue'. and writing his autobiography with all kinds of details and in his own special hyperlexicographical idiom, plus studying and becoming a lawyer, all while in jail - when he got to a peaceful quiet place with no one to bother him and no one that needed killin' he could finally concentrate.

From my maternal Grandfather's side. Looking at the pictures of him give me chills, as they were quite obviously from the same stock.

Ambassador Stanisław Ciosek

A member of the Polish United Workers' Party (PZPR) from 1959 to 1990, Stanisław Ciosek (b.
1939) has held a variety of administrative posts. He was awarded a degree in oceanic studies from
the College of Economics at Sopot in 1961 and served for the next fourteen years in the
administration of the Union of Polish Students. From 1972 to 1985 Ciosek was a Deputy to the
Sejm, and from 1975 to 1980 he was a regional First Secretary in the PZPR. He was on the
PZPR's Central Committee from 1980 to 1981 and 1986 to 1990; from 1980 to 1985 he was a
member of the Council of Ministers. In the years leading to the Round Table negotiations (1986-
88), he was General Secretary of the PZPR's Central Committee and General Secretary of the
National Council of the Patriotic Movement for National Rebirth. From 1989 to 1996, Ciosek
was Poland's Ambassador to Moscow.