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royalfan5
3/19/2006, 11:56 PM
For me it would be Republican Senator Everett Dirksen
Sooner Born Sooner Bred
3/20/2006, 12:05 AM
Tommy Dorsey
GottaHavePride
3/20/2006, 12:05 AM
Tommy Dorsey
SWEET!
proud gonzo
3/20/2006, 12:10 AM
Elke Sommer is supposedly a distant cousin of some sort--she was the blonde in "A Shot in the Dark" w/ Peter Sellers (one of the pink panther movies)
http://dvdtoile.com/ARTISTES/3/3617.jpg
GottaHavePride
3/20/2006, 12:12 AM
Oh yeah, aunt Gitti looks just like her. Well, a 60-year-old version of her.
BajaOklahoma
3/20/2006, 12:23 AM
Teddy Roosevelt. FDR.
Machine Gun Kelly.
Pretty Boy Floyd.
There are some others, but we lost them due to divorces.
william_brasky
3/20/2006, 01:02 AM
Adam & Eve
yermom
3/20/2006, 01:11 AM
http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0671898132.01._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-dp-500-arrow,TopRight,45,-64_AA240_SH20_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg
as seen on QVC ;)
also Tulsa Mayor R.H. Rohde
OKC Sooner
3/20/2006, 01:31 AM
Mary Todd Lincoln
and one ancestor that was hanged as a horse thief
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_W._Marshall
PhxSooner
3/20/2006, 01:53 AM
Andrew Jackson
Issac Robinson- died at the Alamo.
BoogercountySooner
3/20/2006, 05:44 AM
Zachary Taylor my great Aunt Nell used to have a picture of him with a lock of his hair with it hanging on her wall!:)
Chuck Bao
3/20/2006, 06:43 AM
Pocahontas & John Rolf
LoyalFan
3/20/2006, 06:50 AM
Adam & Eve
Brother!!!
LF
Okla-homey
3/20/2006, 07:25 AM
Zachary Taylor my great Aunt Nell used to have a picture of him with a lock of his hair with it hanging on her wall!:)
Me too. I guess that makes us cousins! My grandmaw's peeps (Wolfes, Neals and Lesters) lived in Fayetteville AR and Van Buren before they emigrated to Okemah in the territory where she was born.
chriscappel
3/20/2006, 07:31 AM
ME BABY!!! ME!!!
VeeJay
3/20/2006, 08:03 AM
Former NASCAR racer Lake Speed
U.S. Sen. Trent Lott (my grandfather's mother's maiden name was Lott - that one's a stretch, but we have some common kin going way back).
SeattleOUstudent
3/20/2006, 08:17 AM
Heather Graham.
sooner n houston
3/20/2006, 08:22 AM
Clark from Lewis and Clark fame.
Me too!
crawfish
3/20/2006, 08:31 AM
Mark Gastineau.
On my wife's side. Just hillbilly arkies on my side. :(
Tailwind
3/20/2006, 08:33 AM
Joan Blondell
TUSooner
3/20/2006, 08:55 AM
One of my semi-distant cousins on my Dad's side invented Saran Wrap, and one my Dad's aunts (or something) was married to Ted Williams for awhile.
IB4OU2
3/20/2006, 08:59 AM
Zachary Taylor my great Aunt Nell used to have a picture of him with a lock of his hair with it hanging on her wall!:)
Yea, me too!............Wasn't he impeached?
sooner_born_1960
3/20/2006, 09:24 AM
I won't name names, but you can find him on that Corrections Department search thingy.
Okla-homey
3/20/2006, 09:27 AM
Yea, me too!............Wasn't he impeached?
no, that was Andrew Johnson. Zack died in office though. Caught the flu at his inauguration and didn't live too long after that. It was prolly Montezuma's revenge cuz he killed a heap of meskins in the Mex War.
Soonrboy
3/20/2006, 09:28 AM
Sammy Clappen, former lineman at OU and San Diego Chargers.
Also, John Ross...the chief of the Cherokees that led the Trail of Tears
1stTimeCaller
3/20/2006, 09:35 AM
My Granddad's uncle. COL Joseph Griffin, USAF (Ret). Grew up in Paul's Valley, OK. An Ace fighter pilot in WWII. A member of the Oklahoma Air and Space Hall of Fame. Program Director of America's first ICBM. One really cool guy and maybe not that notable but he should be.
TopDaugIn2000
3/20/2006, 09:35 AM
my uncle is a producer, a list of his stuff can be seen here (http://imdb.com/name/nm0199656/)
*For some reason they don't list "Hot Properties", a show that was on ABC last fall, he did that one too.
Also, our roots have been traced back to Lady Godiva :D
Sooner Born Sooner Bred
3/20/2006, 09:37 AM
my uncle is a producer, a list of his stuff can be seen here (http://imdb.com/name/nm0199656/)
*For some reason they don't list "Hot Properties", a show that was on ABC last fall, he did that one too.
Also, our roots have been traced back to Lady Godiva :Dmaybe cause that show only lasted about 2 episodes, dunno.
TopDaugIn2000
3/20/2006, 09:38 AM
maybe cause that show only lasted about 2 episodes, dunno.
half a season.
:mad:
They credit Suzanne Martin, his partner, but not him. Oh well.
crawfish
3/20/2006, 09:40 AM
Also, our roots have been traced back to Lady Godiva :D
Can you get free chocolate?
TUSooner
3/20/2006, 09:50 AM
Saran Wrap, beyonces.
It's not even 9 a.m. and I need a nap.
RacerX
3/20/2006, 10:39 AM
I'll say my Dad. But you've never heard of him.
Family stories have pointed to that guy that wrote Twas the Night Before Christmas....but I haven't seen the history laid out that links us to him.
MamaMia
3/20/2006, 11:07 AM
N. Scott Momaday
We call him Uncle Scott. :D
HoserSooner
3/20/2006, 11:09 AM
My Dad's cousin won The Brier back in the late-80's.
(The Brier is the Super Bowl of curling).
That's all I got.
Stanley1
3/20/2006, 11:12 AM
Jesse James on my Dad's side, Daniel Boone on my Mother's side.
picasso
3/20/2006, 11:14 AM
Teddy Roosevelt.
most excellent.
Me? Jim Thorpe and Jefferson Davis.
TopDaugIn2000
3/20/2006, 11:23 AM
George Washington is way back there somewhere for me, but I'm not sure of the direct line.
ultimatesooner1
3/20/2006, 11:30 AM
some guy that signed the us constitution, I never met him though. my grandpa was tight w/ some famous outlaws - billy the kid and pretty boy floyd but he just helped them hide out and stuff, not kill & rob people
handcrafted
3/20/2006, 11:39 AM
My wife is a direct descendant of William Dawes (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Dawes)
And my uncle Gary Shelly was a rather important pioneer in the field of computer education: Shelly-Cashman history (http://www.course.com/shellycashman/shellycashmanhistory.cfm)
picasso
3/20/2006, 11:42 AM
Al Sharpton.
Scott D
3/20/2006, 11:54 AM
Jason George (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0313464/) and Diahann Carroll (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0140792/) are both cousins of mine.
OklahomaTrombone
3/20/2006, 12:02 PM
Charlie Chaplin
usmc-sooner
3/20/2006, 12:03 PM
Laurence Fishburne, Ricky Nelson
picasso
3/20/2006, 12:14 PM
...of the Brooklyn Sharptons?
no, Okesa.
mdklatt
3/20/2006, 01:09 PM
If you go back far enough, everybody is related: http://www.slate.com/id/2138060/
Dan Jansen, the speed skater, is a nephew of my great aunt.
handcrafted
3/20/2006, 01:25 PM
If you go back far enough, everybody is related.
Spoken like a true creationist. :D
mdklatt
3/20/2006, 01:27 PM
Spoken like a true creationist. :D
Yes, I see the winky, but Evolution has to have an Adam and Eve too.
Jesse from the Gin Blossoms (by marriage)
SeattleOUstudent
3/20/2006, 02:40 PM
Jesse from the Gin Blossoms (by marriage)
Hey Jealousy
boomersooner28
3/20/2006, 03:02 PM
Will Rogers
picasso
3/20/2006, 05:11 PM
Esai Morales
picasso
3/20/2006, 05:12 PM
Henny Youngman was my Dad's 3rd cousin.
Esai Morales
Of Bad Boys? Great movie.
william_brasky
3/20/2006, 08:25 PM
Henny Youngman was my Dad's 3rd cousin.
My wife said to me, "For our anniversary I want to go somewhere I've never been before." I said, "Try the kitchen!"
Jesse James on my Dad's side
Same here, the original one.
What's up 48th cousin?
usmc-sooner
3/20/2006, 09:15 PM
Richard Roundtree
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