This week, I received an email from wikitree.com that I am closely related to some
famous people from Ontario, Canada.
I am:
19 degrees from Margaret Atwood - Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, and
environmental activist.
16 degrees from Jim Carrey - Canadian-American actor, comedian and artist
17 degrees from Elsie Knott - Elsie Taylor Knot was the first woman in Canada to be
elected as Chief of a First Nation.
24 degrees from Gordon Lightfoot - Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist
23 degrees from Alton Parker - the first black detective in Canada
22 degrees from Beatrice Tillman - famous Black History proponent
22 degrees from Jenny Trout - first woman physician licensed to practice in Canada
19 degrees from Justin Trudeau - Prime Minister
22 degrees from Edwin Boyd - Canadian bank robber and leader of the "Boyd Gang"
18 degrees from Barbara Hanley - Webbwood's first female Mayor
31 degrees from Fanny Rosenfeld - Canada˙s Female Athlete of the Half Century
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.
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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