How to discover who I am related to that are famous?

[TheBanana]

I went through a tree and notice I am descended from Royalty in France, Germany, Belgium and those sort of places. I googled some of the names and it also said who he is the distant grandfather of like Obama, Diana etc. But, I am wondering, I may be related to more than just the few listed. Is there a way I can create a search by name and see who that person is the ancestor of, if you follow my meaning?

Here is that link I was taking about - http://fabpedigree.com/s078/f166434.htm

[nanny jan]

Consider any tree that has "Fabulous pedigree" and "PLEASE do not treat the information as authoritative " at the start  only as a possible guide. 

[Mike in Cumbria]

Re: How to discover who I am related to that are famous?

Step 1. Find out who you are descended from
Step 2. Trace those families forwards to identify people around today where possible
Step 3. Find out as much as you can about them, including whether they are famous or not.

[Mike in Cumbria]

Here is that link I was taking about - http://fabpedigree.com/s078/f166434.htm

Do you know who created that tree? I see they have a lot of "poss" descendants in there as well as the documented ones (Royal families etc).

[1716]

People managed to link my family to "famous" people.

They did so by having someone who died aged 1 resurrected, marrying and giving birth to another child who died, got resurrected, marrying and having children. Its on ancestry now so it must be true.

My advice, follow the paper trail and see where it leads.

[groom]

Did you also notice that hidden amongst all the possibles etc it says: " Much of the data in my database is WRONG."  I'd take that tree with a very big pinch of salt.

[carol8353]

You trace your own family tree as thoroughly as you can,getting certs where possible to confirm that you are not barking up the wrong tree.Then you work out if any of the names are the real names of famous people.

Quite time consuming I would think?

[jim1]

It also seems that most of this has come from the trees & GEDCOM's of others & is not the authors own work.
If you've found some sort of link to any of this you will need to back it up with your own research.

jim

[Erato]

"How to discover who I am related to that are famous?"

You keep digging and digging and digging.  Maybe you find a connection to a famous person and maybe not.  A lot depends on your definition of fame.  I have found connections to interesting people, people who made the news, but no one who was famous, certainly no one whose name is a household word.  That's good enough for me - nothing wrong with a state senator, a high school teacher who inspired a Nobel Prize winner, a very prominent missionary, and a victim of a famous serial murderess, amongst others.