Per http://wikitree.com I am:

22 degrees from Jimmy Buffett
17 degrees from James Cooper - James Fenimore Cooper gained fame as an author of American fiction. His historical romances of frontier and Indian life in the early American days created a unique form of American literature.

20 degrees from James Dean - James Dean, an actor who only made three major Hollywood films, became a cultural icon for the post WWII adolescents of his time. He symbolized the brooding unrest that simmered inside this generation.

19 degrees from James Ganong - James and his brother Gilbert founded Ganong Bros in partnership with Freeman H Todd, started the St. Croix Soap Manufacturing Company.

22 degrees from James Garner - James Garner starred in more than 50 films, including The Great Escape (1963), The Americanization of Emily (1964), Grand Prix (1966), Blake Edwards' Victor Victoria (1982), Murphy's Romance (1985), for which he received an Academy Award nomination, Space Cowboys (2000), and The Notebook (2004).

21 degrees from Jimmy Hoffa - an American labor leader

16 degrees from Jesse James - Jesse James was one of the most notorious outlaws in the American West, robbing trains and leading the James-Younger Gang.

24 degrees from Phyllis White James - English novelist and life peer known as P D James. Her series of detective novels featured the police commander and poet, Adam Dalgliesh

28 degrees from James Earl Jones - James Earl Jones, an American actor whose career has spanned more than 60 years, has won awards in multiple fields of entertainment, including Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, Tony, Disney Legends, and Golden Globe Awards

19 degrees from James Stuart King James VI of Scotland and I of England, Scotland, France and Ireland

17 degrees from James Kraft - By 1914 J.L. Kraft & Bros. Company opened its first cheese manufacturing plant in Stockton, Illinois. Kraft developed a process, patented in 1916, for pasteurizing cheese so that it would resist spoiling and could be shipped long distances.

It is always interesting to visit the past to see how we are related to each other. I have
some ancestors that were black, bank robbers, politicians physicians, detectives, actors,
comedians. I guess that I am a collection of all of them, as we ALL are.

If you would like to find your connections to famous people, you can start by giving me
some basic information by going to: https://www.hobbyline.com/genealogy_web_design.htm and click on the 'Request Form'
link.

I have researched the ancestry for many persons interested in their family history.

Mike Dippel

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