Tilda Swinton has it right, having ancestors who lived in the same place for a long time and wrote things down is how a person can go deep in their family tree. All but one of my ancestors settled in Wisconsin by 1850 (and the late comer arrived in 1866) so I have a wealth of knowledge. Many came here after several generations in the East Coast and their families were landowners there so again, there is a paper trail with land deeds and wills. The fun fact I like to spout off when discussing family history is that I am related to 5 of the 6 wives of Henry VIII, four by blood and one by marriage. If I looked deep enough I probably can find a connection to Anne of Cleves since so much of European nobility intermarried.
@@ChristChickAutistic I also am descended from Catherine Carey! Her daughter Anne Knollys West and granddaughter Joane West White ,who emigrated to Massachusetts in the 1600's with her husband.
Kit Harrington being offered the opportunity to lead a Jacobite revolution and restore the House of Stuart as monarchs in the UK Kit Harrington: I don’t want it
My family did our genealogy, and it's wild. We have tons of famous relatives and are one of the original settlers who founded New Amsterdam. We even have a family museum in New York City.
That’s really cool. My dad is the genealogist in my family. As he found out I’m (seemingly) distantly related to Budd Abbot, the famous Hollywood slapstick comedian. Apparently he had relatives who were Pennsylvanian Dutch and those relatives are connected to my late maternal grandpa’s family (he was Pennsylvania Dutch). I can believe it because the Pennsylvania Dutch tended to intermarry. Also my paternal grandparents were famous mathematicians. However as far as I can tell there is no connection to Charlemagne (family’s Ashkenazi Jewish).
That shit is a scam and a racket! Why do you think EVERYONE has someone like that? Not one person's genealogy report says they're a descendant of peasants, but that's the case for most of us. People are gullible.
My Mum ( mother ) is into genealogy too . Although , I've got two celebrities in the family ( 1 still living ) & both I have had the pleasure & privilege of having life's ups and downs with . ♑️✍️🇳🇴🇦🇺
The moment I heard that Christopher Lee had made metal albums I jumped on my music app of choice and searched for them and damn they are good. I could easily see myself playing it the background of a dnd session.
They didn't even touch on Christopher Lee's storied special forces career but y'all should definitely check out their other video on him he lived an insanely interesting life
My grandma told me as a kid that she was related to Pocahontas (not me, as my mom is adopted). I started to doubt her once I got older. But not too long ago, I did some research into her family history based on her middle name, Randolph, which was a family name. Turns out that Pocahontas' great-great-granddaughter did indeed marry into the Randolph family. Unfortunately, my research died around there, and I was unable to confirm with certainty that my grandmother came from that particular lineage, as I don't know the names of her parents. But I got close enough to now view her story as plausible. It's very exciting to me.
Allegedly, Wallis, the Duchess of Windsor was also related to Pocahantas. Actress Anne Baxter was the granddaughter of architect Frank LLoyd Wright. Mariel and Margaux were the granddaughters of Ernest Hemingway. Geraldine Chaplin was the daughter of actor Charlie Chaplin and Oona O'Neil, the daughter of playwright Eugene O'Neill. Tom Hanks is related to the family of Abraham Lincoln's mother. Camilla Parker-Bowles is the great-great granddaughter of Alice Keppel, a mistress of Edward IV. King Charles is descended from Vlad the Impaler of Dracula fame. Princess Diana was a descendent of one of Charles II's mistress. Talk about Six Degrees of Separation, Kevin Bacon is the 37th Great-grandson of Charlemagne. Charlemagne is the common ancestor of every English monarch from Hardicanute to now, with the exception of Harold II who reigned in 1066 before being defeated by William the Conqueror in 1066 at the Battle of Hastings.
I knew Plummer was in the Sound of Music but I've never actually watched it since I was really young. I'm not a musical guy. But it adds a lot to his character in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.
My Grama's mother's came up the Mississippi river as a child with her family from France with Daniel Boone. To settle Missouri before it was a state. 😊
My grandfather spent the last 30 years of her life researching our genealogy. I don't have any ancestors who would be household names, but with all the stories collected they are real people to me, not just names on a family tree. The women were not queens or anyone considered important or notable. But they were all strong, independently minded, and a little eccentric. There's even a horse thief in there. And we have lots and lots of photographs. It's disconcerting to look at a photo of someone who lived and died in a century different from the one I was born in and yet, could be my identical twin.
i really DO have a notable ancestor, though i keep forgetting if he's actually a blood relative or related by marriage, and "famous" is kinda stretching it--he has a Wikipedia page, at least :P his name was Thomas Tibbles; he was an advocate for indigenous American rights in the late 19th and early 20th century, and was a third-party vice-presidential candidate in the 1904 election
My 8th great aunt is Kerenhappuch Norman, who is a legit badass. I definitely recommend reading about her. She took part in the Revolutionary War in her 50s and 60s as a courier of letters between the American forces. But she's most known for the time her son and grandson got gravely wounded in a battle, and she, a 50-60-year-old, rode a horse through hostile territory to provide aid. Apparently, she found her grandson on the Guilford battlefield and nursed him back to health. She rigged a bucket of water from the rafters of a cabin to allow water to drip on her relative's wound to eliminate infection. She went on to organize the hospital corps. I also got two 12 great-grandfathers from the Mayflower. Christopher Jones and Constance Hopkins.
The actor Clancy Brown's (real name Clarence Brown III) father and grandfather (who had the same name as him) were both members of the U.S. House of Representatives for a combined 44 years (1939-1983) from the same district in Ohio. The day this video was released just so happens to be Clancy Brown's 65th birthday (which I did not know before I started writing this comment).
Sir Christopher Lee. An amazing axror of voth acreen and stage, who loved his country, and family. And enough of a badass to know how humnle, gentle, and kind. A man I regret not getting to meet. Everyone he worked with in the prequels, and LOTR spoke highly of him.
Brian Forster of the Partridge family who played the youngest boy in the family, his direct great great, great, great grandfather is Charles Dickens the author
@@Facetiously.Esoteric if William Shakespeare was a bastard as well., I’m sure people would still claim descent because of the magnitude of his work of literature
My great-great-great grandmother needed a divorce from the man who deserted her, so she could marry the man who who would become my great-great-great-grandfather. She lived in Illinois in the early 1800’s. Her father, brother, and future father-in-law recommended for an attorney the man that they knew well and called a family friend: Abraham Lincoln. (This can absolutely be verified, for one, by Carl Sandberg’s Lincoln books, in case you think I’m full of it).
I’ve been working on my family tree for about 5 yrs now and am back to the 1200s on both sides and it is absolutely amazing all of the well known royals and other famous people that are on my tree. The first thing I learned was if you’re related to one European royal, you’re related to all of the royal families bcz of their tendency to marry only into other European royal families. William Bradford of Mayflower fame as well as being the first governor of Plymouth Colony is my 8th great grandfather. Mary Queen of Scots is my 13th great grandmother, Henry Vlll is my 14th GG, I could go on and on. Everyone should build their family tree as far back as possible. The findings are amazing!
@@vegetariansuniteworldwide8091 Through his sisters actually Mary and Margaret Tudor. I goofed and said great grandfather, he was actually my 14th great UNCLE.
1:43 Tilda Swinton was fantastic as the White Witch in the film The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005). That film was #1 at the box office on my 26th birthday.
My great grandfather was a baker and once sold bread to the Spanish dictator Francisco Franco. He was also against the dictatorship at the time, but he didn't know who he was selling the bread. That is my only known link to someone famous :')
I am (supposedly) descended directly from Samurai on my Mom's side. That, and $5 today, will buy me a cup of coffee. I'd have more faith in the story if there was a sword or knife in the family, but my grandparents were poor dirt farmers. No blade for me, lol!
According to genealogists, all persons of European descent that live nowadays descend of every living fertile citizen from Charlemagne’s era…Including Charlemagne himself. As for me, my great great aunt was the first female mayor in South America, Aurora Mesa Andraca. Our Mesa ancestor was a companion of Hernan Cortes.
6:36 The inspiration for the Tiny Tim character I performed as came partly from a conversation I had with a coworker (who thought that Tiny Tim was an unbelievable character) and partly from the Tiny Tim character in the film Scrooged (1988).
10:25 Christopher Plummer played Henrik Vanger on the film The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo (2011). That was such a great film, would love to see a sequel with the same cast!
My husband and i just found your channel & really enjoy your videos! The background music is a Little too loud for us to hear the dialogue though.. & RU-vid subtitles aren't very reliable. Just some friendly feedback!
I’m related to Edward Doty, who was an indentured servant of Stephen Hopkins, who came to the New World on the ship, The Mayflower. My ancestor was one of two men to be punished in the New Colony for getting into a fist fight. 😊
I always love stuff like this it's so fascinating to discover the roots of people whether or not they are famous to me at the same time it's mind-blowing the people who are famous and the famous people they are connected to I love this channel
I'm related to the French aristocracy before the revolution then they moved to Austria... Also my grandmother was a prison guard at a maximum security prison she was badass I miss her chocolate eclairs
( 1st like to your comment ) . I used to go to school with someone who said they're descended from French royalty ( I remember his surname " Berry-Porter " , I'm very much different now than I was in class ) . Your prison guard grandmother would have had some very interesting stories to tell about her working days , I'm sure . ♑️✍️🇳🇴🇦🇺
Through my dads mom, I am related to the last surviving confederate soldier. My mom’s mom’s father (my great grandfather), was friends with and shared the same profession as the family from the Lawless movie the Bondurant’s. They lived in the same county and ran in the same bootlegger circles.
@@treblanco101 That’s cool man. Small world. Good chance my great grandfather and my grandma knew your relatives then. That movie was surreal to me though because it was exactly like what my grandma described it as.. said all the stills in the mountains made them light up like Christmas trees.. my jaw hit the floor when they said exactly that in the movie because I remembered my grandma telling me about it when I was a little kid in the 90’s.
I used to live in southern TN, when there was a famous murder trial involving a particularly notorious pair of twins named Pete and Pat Bondurant. What are the odds they're the same family? Their parents were not from the area they lived in, in Giles County, TN.
Christopher Lee once said he was related to General Robert E Lee. Although he sadly never elaborated any further on that subject, I believe him. They both share the same surname, and they look very similar to each other. You could be fooled into thinking that they’re the same person
He was a cousin of James Bond creator Ian Fleming, I think by marriage of someone in his family and got to play one of his cousin's villains Scaramanger in The Man With The Golden Gun.
Its not a holiday in the UK. It's just a day we remember remember the 5th of November by building bon fires and making effigies to go on top the set it alight whilst firing rockets and fireworks into the sky. We eat bonfire and treacle toffee and parkin cake, whilst baking potatoes in the bonfire 🔥
@@kidcreole9421 You are just making it up, no one celebrates an event at the same time every year and then tries to convince outsiders it's not a holiday.
@@btetschner we simply do not call it a holiday. A holiday is when you go away somewhere. As Brits we do not call a day in history a holiday. We observe it. Your concept as an American is different to us Brits.
As an American why would you want a Guy Fawkes day that isn't connected to your history as a sovereign country. Guy Fawkes night is only celebrated by British Protestants for fouling the plot by the Catholics to kill King James l and to put a Catholic King or Queen back onto the throne.
@@kidcreole9421 "Your concept as an American is different to us Brits." - You are aware there is a difference in how holidays are defined between the cultures. We can agree that you are being dishonest, likely for the sake of getting attention. I watch videos (and communicate) TWICE A DAY with someone who lived in Britain the first 18+ years of his life and he considers it a holiday.
4:29 Speaking of "Colors of the Wind"...Vanessa Williams is one of my favorite musical artists. The song "Love Is" by Brian McKnight and her is on the Bevely Hills 90210 soundtrack.
Edward Norton is also from the Rouse family. His grandfather James Rouse created Columbia, Maryland, where I grew up. He went to a high school near my own (at different times, I’m decades younger) and eventually had a new theatre built for them.
My Afi (Icelandic for grandfather) claimed they the Icelandic family are direct descended of Eric The Red. We plan on going to Iceland and will check this claim. Figures are crossed that my Afi was right.
You have a pic of Abraham Lincoln. Actor Tom Hanks is related to him through Abe's mom. Nancy Hanks. The Bush family might be related by marriage to Abe also. Lincoln's stepmom was Sally Bush. She had a brother named William. Dubya's great grand dad was named William Bush.
Tilda Swinton comes from one of the three families with proven British ancestrry pre-Conquest. (There are very few because the records rarely go back that far.) I belueve they're descended in the male line from a Viking Earl. Joseph Fiennes and Ralph Fiennes (pronounced fines) are cousins of Lord Saye and Sele, whose title dates back to the 1440s, and who lives in the beautiful Broughton Castle in Oxfordshire. Their proper surname is Twistleton-Wykeham-Fiennes. Many are descended from King Charles II, who had no children by his wife, but a slew of illegitimate children. The singer James Blunt is more properly surnamed Blount (pronounced the same). A military family, they were fighting for England as far back as the 14th century. He was a Captain in the Blues and Royals (?) Horse Guards, and distingished himself in the Kosovo Intervention.
I think Charlemagne's exhibits at any museum should note, "Emperor Charlemagne, direct ancestor the world's most interesting man, Christopher Lee" going forward.
Btw, i’m 36 and my great Uncles were born between 1900ish and the 1940s. It would have to be like my Great Great Great Uncle to be an Abe contemporary.
1. You keep forgetting that actor Timothy Oliphant is also a Vanderbilt descendant. 2. Rose Leslie also has Mexican ancestry. Through her father, she's the great-great-granddaughter of former Mexico City governor, Guillermo Landa y Escandón. This man's mother, Maria Francisca Escandón Garmendia (Leslie's great-great-great-grandmother) was a lady-in-waiting to Empress Charlotte of Mexico. In fact, when Don Guillermo's daughter, Maria De La Luz Landa, married her second husband, Douglas Arbunoth-Leslie, Don Guillermo bought Lickyhead Castle for them as a wedding gift. Lickyhead Castle is the place where Rose lived in her youth.
My great grandma (on my mom's side) and her godmother were cooks for Pancho Villa on the road between Tampico, Mexico and San Antonio, Texas. That's the only thing that I know of that makes my family a part of history.
There is a British television presenter and writer of history books, called Adam Hart Davies who is related to a mistress of William the fourth, the uncle of Queen Victoria.
Yup, videos like this one really get my attention and I hope to be able to see more of them before anything else bad happens. I always enjoy seeing stuff like this and I can't wait to find out more about these stories. You rock!!! ❣️🥹
