OT Geneology - and I'm Part Celestial!

[Olive]

one of my ancestors was a finance minster in the wiemar republic, and a friend of john menyard kynes.

And my great grand mother was a good friend of hans christian andersen.

my mothers family were sheep farmers from plockton.

 

[Desdichado]

Anyway, this connection was completely ficticious, as the names in question were not the same or related in any case.

You're kidding me, right? You mean Julius Caesar is not the literal descendent of the goddess Venus?

Anyway, my family is fairly boring -- we were apparently descended from folks who showed up Georgia when it was a penal colony. We haven't enquired much into them. Although some folks in the family claim that our last name comes from the first sherriff of Oxford (a minor noble) and others a chief advisor of Charlamagne, others of us take these claims with a grain of salt.

My wife, on the other hand, is a direct descendent of Betsy Ross, and about half the kings of Europe starting in the 1200s or so.

 

[Sixchan]

My earliest ancestor was Naill of the Nine Hostages, the greatest and most heroic King of Ireland in history!

 

[WayneLigon]

For ancestors sparking adventure ideas: my easliest known ancestors were a group of Scottish highwaymen (and lady followers) who escaped to America just minutes ahead of the authorities, robbed everyone they met, and eventually settled way back in what would one day be the Kentucky hills.

 

[Desdichado]

My earliest ancestor was Naill of the Nine Hostages, the greatest and most heroic King of Ireland in history!

Look, no offense to your ancestors, or anything, but that's certainly a debatable claim! Most historians I've read give that honor to Brian Borru.

 

[Viktyr Gehrig]

I guess this is somewhat odd, but I don't have the slightest difficulty believing that Julius Caesar is the direct blood descendant of the Greek goddess, Venus.

My faith tells me that every person of any Germanic descent is of direct blood relation to the Aesir and Vanir-- and that's a lot more people than any White Supremacist group will ever admit to, with migration patterns, trade, and people going a-Viking.

Most pantheistic faiths give the race of humanity descent from their gods, and in many cases, a closer, more direct bloodline, when the gods get frisky. In particular, I know the Greek and Japanese old faiths believed in divine lineage.

Given those tendencies, I suspect that far, far more people on this planet have some form of divine lineage than anyone would believe.

On a more mundane note, I'm the fourth or fifth cousin of New York Yankee Lou Gehrig, and roughly eighth- or ninth-removed grandnephew of the fourteenth American President, Franklin Pierce.

 

[Airwolf]

Well, I can't claim anything from my family. I can only trace my history back to the time when my great grand parents entered the country around 1910.

On the other hand my wife has a family tree that dates back to 850 AD. She is a descendant of a Viking King.

I guess you could say I married into royalty.

 

[Arken]

I have been able to trace my Geneology back to about the 10th Century (which could be anything between the 9th and 12th Centuries as dates back then are a bit iffy) also it seems that at that point my Ancestor was a 'Celestial being' (possibly a grandson of the (Polynesian) god Tane) who came down and 'slept' with a mortal woman.

Other interesting ancestors are a man who turned into a shark, a woman from beneath the sea and a powerful priest who may have been a Tahitian Volcano god!!!

So anyone else got interesting ancestors who would make great RPG fodder?

That's similar to me in quite a few ways . Though I haven't looked it p recently and I haven't given much time to studying the family tree I know that someone did all the research and I go back eventually to some of the Gods of the Philippines. I'll have to do more research into that...

A bit closer to home...My grandfather was the general secretary of CND in Britain.
My grandfather (on the other side) was an extensive landowner in the philippines but lost the family fortune (alas).