5-year-old child claims to be reincarnated actor, Marty Martyn, who died in 1964.

[PeaceBeWithMe]

you guys were from africa?

In his pic, we were. I was carrying a cute little purse. And I had white hair.

Found it. Here it is.

[bowieluva]

Ancestry is great. And if you get lucky you may find that great aunt katy has uploaded a tree and you can just downloaded. The problem is that the old girl drinks and thinks you are descended from Cleopatra.

Oh, I don't have any family really which is why I want to look up the history.

[Olivia]

I read a book once called Past Lives, Future Lives and she predicted who she will be in a future life and it was nobody famous. I'll have to re-read it and see what she said again, but it was interesting for anyone interested

http://www.amazon.com/Past-Lives-Fut.../dp/068483216X

Also, topically enough I went to a parenting talk on pre-school age kids last night. And the lecturer was a pediatric psychologist. And he said that all children will imagine what they don't know. So if you took away their Christmas for example, they would still imagine it. Kids have crazy wild imaginations so in many cases, I think it's just that.

[Mina]

Ehhh... I don't know. I feel like 5 years old is just old enough to start training kids on what to say. Don't get me wrong, it would be so cool if it were real, just doesn't feel real to me.

[ashley951]

We have access to ancestry.com & HeritageQuest from our state library. I also like findagrave and http://www.usgenweb.org/ and https://familysearch.org/

I'm on familysearch right now thanks to you. My gram never really talked about her parents, has dementia, and all her siblings are gone so my family is a big mystery. I found some interesting things on there and no it's no one famous. I also found out my pap's grandpa was drafted in world war 1 and 2.

[animosity]

if i sign up for family search, will the mormons come to my house?

[Words Words]

if i sign up for family search, will the mormons come to my house?

depending on where you live, it's quite possible they will no matter what you do.

[PeaceBeWithMe]

if i sign up for family search, will the mormons come to my house?

No, but I will.

[puzzld]

if i sign up for family search, will the mormons come to my house?

No, but they might baptize your ancestors.

Seriously, no. No sign up needed to use family search, just open it up and start searching. Even ancestry, which we had a subscription to for a while caused no Mormons to appear.

[Boston Babe 73]

Yeah, I agree. it's like how everyone does their genealogy and is like oh man i am a direct descendent of Queen Victoria and Alexander The Great and Cleopatra and Robin Hood. And I'm like, YOU ARE BEING SCAMMED and also congrats on finding out you are the DIRECT DESCENDENT of British royalty, you should probably go challenge the throne.

no one's ever like 'So turns out my entire family line is made up of starving fisherman.'

The only it's true is if you're related to Ghengis Khan because pretty much everyone is related to him because he fucked every woman on earth.

OMFG

We seriously believe we have some Mongolian blood that snuck in to our family (The Swedish side). When my Mom was in Germany stationed with my Dad, the Vietnamese/American wives club wanted her to join

We checked out photos of our ancestors and sure enough between that and the fact that our fingerprints have a rare swirl only found in people of Mongolian descent, we're convinced lol.

[UncomfortablyNumb]

I'm a descendent of Florence Nightingale. However, my dad was adopted so my family line on that side could very well be starved fishermen.

[puzzld]

I'm a descendent of Florence Nightingale. However, my dad was adopted so my family line on that side could very well be starved fishermen.

You might be Florence Nightingale reincarnated, but you aren't her descendent.

[bowieluva]

You might be Florence Nightingale reincarnated, but you aren't her descendent.

Yeah Florence Nightengale was an old maid. She never had any children.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florence_Nightingale

[PeaceBeWithMe]

Yeah Florence Nightengale was an old maid. She never had any children.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florence_Nightingale

[UncomfortablyNumb]

You might be Florence Nightingale reincarnated, but you aren't her descendent.

Yeah Florence Nightengale was an old maid. She never had any children.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florence_Nightingale

My mom is who told me that! I'll be asking her about that shit when she gets home.

ETA: Do you know how many people I've told that??? Omg. So embarrassing.

[puzzld]

Yeah, I agree. it's like how everyone does their genealogy and is like oh man i am a direct descendent of Queen Victoria and Alexander The Great and Cleopatra and Robin Hood. And I'm like, YOU ARE BEING SCAMMED and also congrats on finding out you are the DIRECT DESCENDENT of British royalty, you should probably go challenge the throne.

no one's ever like 'So turns out my entire family line is made up of starving fisherman.'

The only it's true is if you're related to Ghengis Khan because pretty much everyone is related to him because he fucked every woman on earth.

My mom is who told me that! I'll be asking her about that shit when she gets home.

ETA: Do you know how many people I've told that??? Omg. So embarrassing.

Thus demonstrating the truth of Bowie's earlier post.

[UncomfortablyNumb]

Thus demonstrating the truth of Bowie's earlier post.

As much as I'd like to say that I said that just to prove that point, I'm actually just a dumbass who didn't do my research and took my mom's word. However I'm happy to be an example.

[bowieluva]

Yeah, honestly most of the time if you're related to someone famous, you don't need to research it because the family preserves the evidence.

[UncomfortablyNumb]

Yeah, honestly most of the time if you're related to someone famous, you don't need to research it because the family preserves the evidence.

Good point! If I was going to look stupid though, she could have at least told me that we were related to someone cooler.

[bowieluva]

Good point! If I was going to look stupid though, she could have at least told me that we were related to someone cooler.

I'm sure she got that information from somewhere and just neglected to research it more thoroughly.

[UncomfortablyNumb]

I'm sure she got that information from somewhere and just neglected to research it more thoroughly.

You're totally right, I was just kidding. She wouldn't intentionally make me look stupid...cuz she has told other people that too. I should probably inform her.

[puzzld]

Good point! If I was going to look stupid though, she could have at least told me that we were related to someone cooler.

Florence was way cool. She was a real trail blazer in women's rights. Saved a ton of lives. Is still saving lives today thanks to her role in founding the red cross.

[UncomfortablyNumb]

Florence was way cool. She was a real trail blazer in women's rights. Saved a ton of lives. Is still saving lives today thanks to her role in founding the red cross.

That's awesome!

[Words Words]

In 7th grade, in history class, a kid asked if I was related to Robert E. Lee because my last name is pronounced like E. Lee.

[Shins]

I've always sort of believed in the possibility of reincarnation. Energy, etc. I think it's a partial explanation for dejavue.

I don't have any formal knowledge on it. But like deb mentioned, I've read stories where kids have casually talked about their past life, and I'm pretty sure my mom said I did some weird shit like that when I was a kid. I always have these really bizarre long dejavues that creep me the fuck out. I had one last week when I was talking to a co-worker and I knew what he was going to say before he said it.