Is it possible to have characteristics and personalities of your ancestors from a long time ago?

Question

I found out I am related to a few famous people. (I will not disclose who.) And before I found this out I noticed I had similiar interests, desires, talents, characteristics, and many other things that they had when I was fascinated with them. Could it be possible that their legacy is living in me when they lived over hundreds of years ago? Before I found out I sensed a feeling of familiarity when I saw portraits of them. What is going on? Why am I like them so much? Is it just by chance or is it the lingering genes?

(I checked my geneology and it is accurate.)

Answer 1

Oh yeah! Of course....... your genes follow down through the genarations. Though EVERYONE is different, you may still have some similar characteristics. All of my great,great,greats and so on look a lot like me! I'm also related to some famous people!

Answer 2

Yep. It's weird. Funny how everybody in certain blood lines all die of the same thing at an old age. (When they are allowed to get old..)

I have several who died on my birthday.

I take it all with a grain of salt.

Though I often think I'd be better off if I had been a man of the cloth like a few of my ancestors were...

(And skip the portraits-- the resemblances get extremely spooky, don't they!)

Relax, don't go Art Bell (a great radio guy) on us, and happy hunting...

Answer 3

Yes, but as the generations go by, less genes continue, simply because through each birth, approximately half of you genes come from each parent. So it is definitely likely.