So I think Im related to Eddie, heres my story

GetRight13

Now I know alot will probably brush this off as "yeah right" but heres my story

My buddy contacted me the other day after he was searching for stuff on Eddie Severson & Hollyridge. Upon looking for stuff on that he stumbled on eddies family tree. http://www.wargs.com/other/severson.html At that time he saw a Walrath in his tree which is my last name.
It happens to be Eddies great X6 grandparent Anna Rosina Walrath. Knowing I was a huge pearl jam fan he contacted me. So I thought I would take a shot in the dark knowing that there are many people who share same last names but aren't related. So I signed up with ancestry.com and started with my grandfather and it just snowballed from there. I was able to get back all the way to the 1700-1800s and low and behold Anna Rosina Walrath appeared in my tree. After that I started to go down her tree and other names that were mentioned in eddies tree started to appear in mine. I got all the way down to where I saw the Vedder name come into it, which is from his mother side. I was able to get down to eddies grandparents Ivan Vernon Vedder and Margaret L Sorenson which says are my 6th cousin 4x removed. I couldnt go any father cause it said they had children but they were listed as private. Now I know this is all very distant, but I just thought it was cool being a fan for all these years then finding out I may be related to to the singer in a very distant way. It would be cool some how to get this all confirmed but I dont think that will happen. Just thought I share my story with you guys as I thought it was pretty neat.

Keep Rockin

Eric

Anna Rosina Walrath is my 8th great grand aunt

GetRight13

another thing is alot of his family tree seemed to settle in the Upstate NY area in which Im from

FoxyRedLa

Interesting!

RiotZact

Neat, my last name is Gossard but I doubt it's worth looking into, maybe some day.

PJfanwillneverleave1

GetRight13 said:

Now I know alot will probably brush this off as "yeah right" but heres my story

My buddy contacted me the other day after he was searching for stuff on Eddie Severson & Hollyridge. Upon looking for stuff on that he stumbled on eddies family tree. http://www.wargs.com/other/severson.html At that time he saw a Walrath in his tree which is my last name.
It happens to be Eddies great X6 grandparent Anna Rosina Walrath. Knowing I was a huge pearl jam fan he contacted me. So I thought I would take a shot in the dark knowing that there are many people who share same last names but aren't related. So I signed up with ancestry.com and started with my grandfather and it just snowballed from there. I was able to get back all the way to the 1700-1800s and low and behold Anna Rosina Walrath appeared in my tree. After that I started to go down her tree and other names that were mentioned in eddies tree started to appear in mine. I got all the way down to where I saw the Vedder name come into it, which is from his mother side. I was able to get down to eddies grandparents Ivan Vernon Vedder and Margaret L Sorenson which says are my 6th cousin 4x removed. I couldnt go any father cause it said they had children but they were listed as private. Now I know this is all very distant, but I just thought it was cool being a fan for all these years then finding out I may be related to to the singer in a very distant way. It would be cool some how to get this all confirmed but I dont think that will happen. Just thought I share my story with you guys as I thought it was pretty neat.

Keep Rockin

Eric

Anna Rosina Walrath is my 8th great grand aunt

badbrains

Hey, I heard I was actually related to Noah. Ya man, who would've ever thought, Noah! Maybe I'm some sort of prophet, ya right!!!

ldent42

I thought the name was Fedder & he changed it?