Delusional Claims of Family Prominence

These people are on shaky ground now with the anti-white movement gaining full steam. Their days of security are limited.

Very specific. Tell us which cunty faggola you’re talking about…

We were practically the last white people in my neighborhood growing up.

R2 This is more than just one person I know which is why I made the thread. If it was just one person, I would continue to roll my eyes.

But it’s hilarious to me because no one knows who they are and no one knows who their family is. And if they did know, they’re dead.

R4 you sound upper middle class and white. We shall assume you are new money.

It's easier to verify the prominence among my Happy Few friends in Geneva and Paris. There will usually be a town or region with their name, and a chateau or two or three, and a lengthy wiki entry. I mean, if you don't already know the name, and you probably do.

First the location.

Then the family.

R1 whining about the "anti-white" movement sounds like a Republican who spews the replacement theory. Like 90% of billionaires are white. Stop whining, racists

I worked for an attorney who had delusions of grandeur and would refer to himself as coming from a “prominent Los Angeles” family. His parents were nobodies and he was important only in his own mind.

R9 that’s what I’m talking about! What do you think made him like that?

Would this qualify as 'genealogy nazi'?

The Americans who boast too much and too often of their own family connections are usually Mama's boys from the wrong branch of the Harrisons, the Rutledges, the Van Rensselaers or whoever. Their great, great aunt who took in sewing had a grandmother who married a ne'er do well distant cousin of the fourth generation of an already faded family name.

Or they are women once just wild enough to snag one of the few poor duPonts and keep the name and the old Volvo and a couple hundred thousand after the divorce.

I've known Vanderbilts who lived in very ordinary 2-bedroom condos and who had to watch their money, and direct descendents of very prominent and very rich people who figured prominently in local or national history who had nothing but history books and street names to show for it. Holding onto money and prominence or a name that has currency is a real trick, and usually doesn't involve boasting (for one thing, everyone else will do it for you.)

Well some of those old families at least might have passed down big cock genetics if not trust funds. One can expect size meat from the Van Rensselaer men. Biddles, Gores and Peabodys, too.

I have a delusional aunt like this. She claims we are related to one of the founding fathers and British nobility

[quote] Personally, I am related to historically significant individuals, including some of the founding fathers of the United States.

Every accusation is a confession, the DAR version.

Serving on boards of a few nonprofits, I have known some very self-interested underachievers who may draw some income through trusts and manage to hang on to some larger old homes, but just barely. I know a few who have (self) published books about their family lineage. These are some of the most tedious types.

Weirdly, still others with more impressive ancestries tend to stay quiet. They seem focused on making others comfortable around them and in “elite” settings. I prefer that type of notable.

[quote] I have a delusional aunt like this. She claims we are related to one of the founding fathers and British nobility

We have a DLer like this as well. See: OP.

Not only do I know them, OP, I know them in St. Louis.

Chouteau, Clark, Desloge.

Not 300, years, though. Maybe 250.

I know enough about genealogy to know it is common to be able to claim being related to someone famous or noteworthy. That is why I do not talk about my own famous relations outside the family.

[quote]That is why I do not talk about my own famous relations outside the family.

This is very big of you and we certainly do appreciate it.

R15 my point was I’m related to more prominent people on a national level and I would never bring it up. These people are bringing up how they’re related to only local people 75-100 years ago almost every conversation.

"my point was I’m related to more prominent people on a national level and I would never bring it up"

Um R21, I think you just did.

Is OP Anderson Cooper?