• ShunkW@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    I’m related to Edgar Allan Poe. I don’t remember how exactly because it’s convoluted, but technically he’s somewhere in the chain on my mom’s side of the family.

  • nifty@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Yes but saying so would be revealing because of the last name, and I’d doxx myself

  • vapeloki@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Both, my grand grandparents on Father’s side of the family and my grandparents on my mothers side have the surname Grimm. My luck, only one side is related to them ʘ‿ʘ

  • Lvxferre@mander.xyz
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    8 months ago

    I can’t get too specific for privacy reasons, but I’m very, very distantly related to a few doges of Venice, by maternal side. (I’m not from Italy.)

    Also my grand-grandma has a street named in her honour.

  • tws@lemmynsfw.com
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    8 months ago

    About a thousand years ago, a Duke came over from Normandy as part of an invasion of my country.

    He even built a castle not far from where I grew up. Sadly I’m not allowed to own that castle or live in it.