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so this turned into a RIDICULOUS undertaking. First is was just gonna be me chit chatting 'bout the family reunion we got coming up next summer segueing into a list of some of the All-Stars with whom I share ancestors. Had planned on finding a few more famous folks to whom I'm related and then posting the winners here. Figured pictures and bios with links to their wikipedia pages. We'd known for years some of the descendants of Mayflower passenger John Howland (FDR, Joe Smith the Mormon dude, the George Bushes) and of his father Henry Howland (Winston Churchill, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford). Lil' over a year back, learned that we are also related to Barack Obama. Few month ago found out some more John Howland relatives and emailed along this picture:
that picture is pretty phenomenal, and I would be quite satisfied with it (along with the verification that all them folks are blood relatives) being the extent of my contribution to the family genealogical research. Goofing off some more though, and stumbled upon Reverend John (1584-1653). Dude's surname was spelled either Lothrop or Lathrop and in earlier generations had variations including Lowthrop and Lowthroppe. However you wanna spell it, him and Hannah House (or Howse) had some prodigious offspring. He and second wife Anna Hammond not so much, but certainly not hating on her since I am descended from issue of both dude's marriages
rather than an exhaustive list or even a top ten, figured that it's better to start having a relative of the week over on the myspace profile under the heroes section. You can now look forward to the relative of the week paragraph being one of the highlights of your life. If you or anyone you know is contemplating suicide, the following teasers should be sufficient to postpone their self-immolation
here are some sentences that I cut and pasted from the obscenely long monstrosity into which this blog was mutating:
died after being shot and stabbed and beaten by her enraged husband
Forged identity papers and human trafficking and all sorts of clandestine smuggling of people.
ex-wife of some prince dude, now sells really really expensive furniture
Plus when she was 17 she was in a movie called Sex Kittens Go to College.
one of the best universities in the world was built and named for him
plenty of potential be great too, but was killed by the Communists
Dude invented coupons and Grape Nuts
Richest woman in the world, owned the largest yacht in the world
He is the wacky presidential assassin of the family
Bling don't get much badder than the Hope Diamond though, so she wins as far as being the most iced-out relative
He was one of only 9 US Senators ever to be censured.
She later apologized and used good ol' "Satan made me do it" excuse.
influential to the point that the kingdom banned prostitution and booze
was a Member of Parliament and married a buddy of Adolf Hitler
the most thugged out mausoleum in 'Merica
Most beautiful woman in the world and kept getting remarried to dudes younger than her son
has an airport named after him
they are all princes/ses of Greece and Denmark
he is the one who stole all the artifacts
She got married 4 times. Her eldest daughter was married thrice, second daughter married 6 times, daughter 3 also had 3 weddings. That's 16 husbands between the four of 'em
when your family is as big-time and awesome as mine, you don't even bother with some of the lesser wikipedia page-having relatives like Ebenezer Huntington, George Parsons Lathrop, Louis Auchincloss, George F. Kennan, John Lothrop Motley, Wilford Woodruff (although having 33 kids is pretty awesome), Louis Comfort Tiffany, Wayne Morse, Charles Ives, Elvis Perkins, Daniel Coit Gilman, Franklin Henry Giddings, Childs and Helen Clay Frick, Charles Scribner III &IV, Charles & Thomas Day Seymour, or even a guy with ridiculous hereditary titles like Nicholas Mosley, 3rd Baron Ravensdale, 7th Baronet. Although it is amusing that Charles Scribner's Sons published a book by Charles Seymour, most likely unbeknownst that their great-great-great-great-great-grandparents were siblings
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