My dad's father was the foremost bootlegger in St Clair Co., AL. He was well known to local law enforcement officials, and provided the local clergy with a great deal of material for their sermons.
My ancestors were possible royalties from Germany...they had "von" in their name..
We never really cared so we haven't sought it out any further. Plus it was damned expensive to do so.
My grandpa has done a LOT of geaneaology. On my maternal side, I'm a descendent of Sir Oliver Mowat, one of the founding fathers of Confederation (his signature is on it), a premier of Ontario, and an Attorney general, and lieutenant-governor of Ontario.
We're Stuarts as well, our tartan is the Royal Stuart Tartan, we were servants to royalty at some point, which means we were also minor royalty (that's how they did it in those days at Court.).
There's more, but it's faded from memory at the moment.
i dont know of any although my uncle has been studying our geneaology(although he has been studying more of moms side since his wife is her sis), but as far as i know no we dont. and spirit, yes ma'am your very important *cowers*