In your genealogical family, who is the most famous person in your family tree? Dad's side or Mom's side?

Did he own slaves too?

Donald Trump is my uncle on both my father's and mother's side.

Genghis Khan

Royalty on my father's side. From two sons of Edward III, John of Gaunt and Thomas of Woodstock. Both lines are very solid.

In terms of non royals I have a great great uncle who played cricket with W.G. Grace.

I also have a more distant uncle who was killed when his place of work exploded. The incident was a major news item at the time.

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Don Lapre. Third cousin or something like that on my dad's side. Same last name.

My grandmother's sister murdered her husband. She had schizophrenia. I was told she called the cops herself; didn't even try to hide it. It got statewide attention and media coverage back in the late 70s.

Pastor John Robinson, on my mom's side.

While not a household name, it was many of Robinson's flock that came from Holland as pilgrims to the new world on the Mayflower.

He is featured in the painting Embarkation of the Pilgrims, which is on the back of the 1918 version of the $10,000 bill. The painting hangs in the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol.

The painting shows Robinson praying with his pilgrims on the deck of the Speedwell. Due to leaks on that ship the congregants ended up crossing the Atlantic on the Mayflower.

Robinson did not come on the ship, opting to say in Holland to prepare the next groups of pilgrims, so I cannot trace my ancestry to the Mayflower.

I'm a descendant from the family that had a baby on the Mayflower ship coming to America. I have a great aunt who tracked a bunch of this down in the 1960's and made a family lineage book. There are thousands of people that took to make me spanning back that far, but the book covers a couple hundred of them, the ones that had any documentation that exists today. Many people are just lost and there's not much of a way to find anything about them anymore. All of that will change in future generations, everything is digitally documented. It'll be easy in 300 years to find every ancestor from now to then.

My first name comes from my grandfather, George Washington. He's on my father's side. My mother's side of the family has a wide range of intellectuals (Einstein), politicians, actors (Brad Pitt, Sean Connery), and various others. My close friend and cousin, Joe Montana, is married to my sister, Michelle Obama.

My real father was a communist- Frank Marshall Davis and I'm NOT of Kenyan descent.

No-one famous as such, but...

My mother's grandparents - whom I never met - were Polish aristocracy. Their home was annexed by the Germans in WW2 to use as a local headquarters. Unfortunately they escaped to the UK with essentially **** all and for reasons never explained to me, never tried to reclaim anything after the war. I have seen some cool photos though. Grandfather was on the Polish olympic ski-jumping team.

My father's family were - as my mother eloquently described them - peasants.

The most famous person in my family tree is not from my dad's side nor my mom's side. It's my own daughter. She's not mainstream famous at all, just more than anyone else we're related to. She was a decent D1 gymnast and was known in those circles. The sport of gymnastics is like a small town where a lot of people know each other.

Samuel Clemens - better known as Mark Twain - is part of my family tree on my Dad's side.

Ichabod Crane, Megan Fox, Carrot Top

I have an ancestor who had kids with 3 sisters. He should be famous.

I share a psychosis with John Brown of Harpers Ferry fame.