Me and Che Guevara

When you work on your family tree, you hope to come across some interesting characters. For instance, on my father's side is James F. X. O'Brien an Irishman who was sentenced to be hung drawn and quartered but later became an MP alongside Parnell. There is also the Irish playwright T.C. Murray, whose plays were performed at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin. On my mother's side we managed to trace back to an ancestor who was a woolcomber in Mountsorrell who died in 1776. The family moved around a bit and a later ancestor was a bank manager in Rye. 


However my mother then discovered some Irish relatives and it emerged that a relative called Patrick Lynch went to South America around 1750 and became quite successful. A family tree was published online and one of his descendants was Che Guevera. Thus it is that I am a seventh cousin of Che Guevara. Although he died in 1967, he is still a prominent and controversial figure. I can not claim to be like him but it is quite odd to see so many copies of that image of my seventh cousin.