This week's theme is an Irish Connection Checker. Per wikitree.com, I am:

22 degrees from C. S. Lewis - author known for the beloved world of Narnia

30 degrees from George Best - renowned football (soccer) player

25 degrees from Pierce Brosnan - actor known for his time playing "James Bond"

20 degrees from Catherine Coleman - war correspondent

25 degrees from Charles Duffy - journalist, poet, tenant rights activist, and the
8th Premier of Victoria, Australia

25 degrees from Georgie Frost - activist whose legal campaign led to the law giving women the right to hold public office

19 degrees from Nancy Grosvenor - Duchess of Westminster and owner of horse Arkle, 3-time winner of the Cheltenham Gold Cup

22 degrees from M�cheal O Coileain - 20th Century Irish revolutionary

21 degrees from Mary Peirce-Evans - pilot

19 degrees from George Bernard Shaw - Nobel prize-winning playwright

23 degrees from Robert Wilson - Captain who used his ship to ferry enslaved people on the Underground Railroad

25 degrees from William Yeats - Nobel prize-winning poet

I have some ancestors that were actors, architects, astronauts, black, bank robbers,
comedians, detectives, singers and musicians, politicians, poets, physicians, writers.
I guess that I am a collection of all of them, as we ALL are.

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In honor of St. Patrick's Day on March 17, the following is a list of my Irish ancestors,
per wikitree.com

20 degrees from Oscar Wilde
24 degrees from Edward Cowan
20 degrees from Arthur Guinness
20 degrees from Dubhglas de h�de
30 degrees from Brian mac Cenn�tig
21 degrees from Liam Neeson
21 degrees from Maureen O'Hara
23 degrees from Ernest Shackleton
19 degrees from George Bernard Shaw
23 degrees from Geraldine Somerville
21 degrees from Bram Stoker
18 degrees from Jonathan Swift

More about them:

Oscar Wilde, poet and playwright.

Edward Cowan, founder of Cowan Whisky and pillar of Irish Victorian society.

Arthur Guinness, founder of the Guinness brewery.

Douglas Hyde, first president of Ireland.

Brian mac Cennetig, first King of Ireland.

Liam Neeson, actor known for his dramatic action roles.

Maureen O'Hara, actress who acted often with her friend, John Wayne.

Ernest Shackleton, arctic explorer.

George Bernard Shaw, playwright and founder of London School of Economics.

Geraldine Somerville, actress known for roles in Harry Potter movies and Gosford Park.

Bram Stoker, author best known for writing the gothic horror novel, Dracula.

Jonathan Swift, clergyman and author of novels, including Gulliver's Travels.

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I have some ancestors that were actors, architects, astronauts, Afro-American, authors, bank robbers, boxers, comedians, detectives, ghosts, holocaust survivors
Indian chiefs, pro hockey players, singers and musicians, painters, physicians,
politicians, poets, popes, writers, WW I heroes. I guess that I am a collection of
all of them, as we ALL are.

https://www.wikitree.com helps me gather this information with their weekly newsletters. It is totally free and very useful to genealogists.

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,
and I would love to see how WE are related.

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