We're cousins... not necessarily identical cousins...

[gridlockjoe]

Digging around ancestry.com, I found that I'm related to:

Kit Carson (2nd cousin, 7x removed) -- trapper and trader in the early Southwest
Clement C. Moore (2nd cousin, 9x removed) -- wrote "The Night Before Christmas"
Robert Treat Paine (2nd cousin, 9x removed) -- signer of the Declaration of Independence
Oscar Stanton De Priest (6th cousin, 2x removed) -- first African-American elected to Congress in the 20th century
Samuel Huntington (2nd cousin, 10x removed) -- signer of the Declaration of Independence
George Soule (12th great grand uncle) -- signed the Mayflower Compact
J.P. Morgan (4th cousin, 7x removed)
William Ellery (3rd cousin, 9x removed) -- signer of the Declaration of Independence
George Eliot (8th cousin) -- famous novelist
Lucy Ware Webb Hayes (6th cousin, 4x removed) -- First Lady of the United States
William Randolph Hearst ( 6th cousin, 4x removed) -- newspaper magnate
Harriet Lane (5th cousin, 6x removed) -- acted as First Lady for her uncle, President James Buchanan
James A. Garfield (5th cousin, 6x removed) -- 20th President of the United States
Jane Austen (5th cousin, 7x removed) -- famous author
Woodrow Wilson (6th cousin, 5x removed) -- 28th President of the United States
Margaret Mackall Smith Taylor (5th cousin, 7x removed) -- First Lady of the United States
Mamie Eisenhower (6th cousin, 7x removed) -- First Lady of the United States
Oliver Winchester (4th cousin, 9x removed) -- rifle manufacturer
William W. Winchester (5th cousin, 8x removed) -- rifle manufacturer
Ty Cobb (7th cousin, 3x removed) -- baseball player
Joe Ball (8th cousin, 2x removed) -- serial killer
Georgia O'Keefe (7th cousin, 4x removed) -- painter
Robert Hobart (7th cousin, 4x removed) -- 4th Earl of Buckinghamshire, Colonial Secretary 1801-04
Pretty Boy Floyd (7th cousin, 4x removed) -- outlaw
Robert Penn Warren (5th cousin, 8x removed) -- novelist
John Steinbeck (8th cousin, 2x removed) -- author
Edgar Allen Poe (6th cousin, 6x removed) -- poet
James Stewart (8th cousin, 3x removed) -- actor
Shirley Temple Black (8th cousin, 3x removed) -- actor
Gustav Mahler (6th cousin, 8x removed) -- composer
Gregory Peck (8th cousin, 4x removed) -- actor
Lucy Maud Montgomery (6th cousin, 8x removed) -- author
Robert Louis Stevenson (7th cousin, 7x removed) -- novelist and poet
Eric Arthur Blair "George Orwell" (10th cousin, 4x removed) -- author
Mathew Thornton (distant great grand uncle) -- signer of the Declaration of Independence

Comments

[dsch.livejournal.com]

Gustav Mahler (6th cousin, 8x removed) -- composer

!!!!!!!
(The rest of the list is cool, too. But!)

[tea-cantata.livejournal.com]

I was about to post "I think dsch is about to come by and flip out over the Mahler relation..." ;-)

[gridlockjoe.livejournal.com]

Yes, I figured that was going to happen, too. :)

[smart-ted.livejournal.com]

I was amused by the juxtaposition of Mahler and Shirley Temple (my favorite child actor!)

[jcello.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure which of those is the coolest! What a fabulous family tree you have!

[gridlockjoe.livejournal.com]

The shocking part is that this is all just from my father's side. I don't have any of the detaails for my mother's side in the system yet.

P.S. Happy birthday!