It's the real things that are connections we've shared a sense of, and met people related to, that are interesting; when I was young and gorgeous I ran into a few guys who told me all about their fancy family connections, and they couldn't have made themselves seem more dull. No money or the world giving fucks in my case. The closest thing would be that my Dad's Dad was cousin to Will Rogers, on the Cherokee side, and that means more because Dad loved his work and always called him "cousin Will." The same grandfather was also a cowboy before he settled down (and I still have gargantuan bullhorns to prove it). So considering where I started, I like to think I have Route 66 in my veins.
Grandfather on the other side was half-breed and "passing"; he became a preacher, taught himself Greek and Latin and wrote, in those languages, what were described to me as a huge amount of theological or philosophical tracts, before he had a change of mood or something related to the whole passing deal, and burned all of it. So I just got to hear later all about how much everyone regretted having refused to learn "the Indian ways", because they were rebelling.
The thing that strikes me though, is how overlooked women are in all this. My Dad was unhappy about the way life/the world prevented his mother from pursuing her interests more, and on the other side, biomom was born, as a late accident, in '32; my aunts who were grown by then, were fascinating, cool, and hysterical. I'm so glad I met them, but their lives were defined by marriages and men. What I can go on about for hours, is how amazing they were, and what I learned first hand as a kid, about their world.
I'm always very proud of my Dad too, for being active in the Civil Rights movement, including before it technically existed. The stories I've heard from family are amazing and wonderful, and some of the things I've seen are too, just don't want to go on that long. After that, I just don't care (again, no money or anything).
An uncle drove for Greyhound, so I might be related to Morphine (skooma, Morphine, so obvious). What ever happened to her anyway, and what's up with the confusing usernames?