Who is your most famous, infamous, or interesting relative?

[Ca Bob]

Curious question. My family may be related to the guy who was a political polemicist and then became Lenin's companion, all this going on around 1905. He worked to smuggle Lenin into Russia in the "closed train" trip in the pre-war and pre-revolution era. I learned about this quite by chance after attending a silent film festival which happened to be doing a retrospective on pre-revolution Russian films and early Soviet era films, and out of this experience I did some reading of history and a name popped up.

A member of my family discovered the L-strand transcripts of the human mitochondrial genome, but that was me, and it was well before there was any inkling that the human mitochondrial genome can through mutation be a source of lots of different genetic diseases.

[MrNoBody]

Interesting, I guess...
Some Scottish Lowands farmer who settled in the Province of Carolina
at the end of the 17th century.
Many folks with family roots in NC & SC have Scots-Irish ancestors.

[Speedy]

My great-grandfather was a bartender, which, given the makeup of this board, should count as famous.

[Buzz]

Speedy wrote:
My great-grandfather was a bartender, which, given the makeup of this board, should count as famous.

Only if he was also a pimp, so he could provide both hookers AND booze.
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[Markintosh]

Jack Black, yes that one, is my second cousin.

But i am super late to this thread....

[TheCaber]

Mary, who had a little lamb, was a great-great-great aunt on my father's side (IIRC).
There is a statue of the lamb on the town common in Sterling, MA. There is some controversy regarding the origin of the poem.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Had_a_Little_Lamb

[Racer X]

Is your family Scottish? That might shed some light on it.....