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    From Mike Dippel@954:895/1 to All on Wed Sep 10 13:24:12 2025
    This week's Ancestry Connection features Western frontier notables. Per wikitree.com, I
    am:

    14 degrees from Daniel Boone
    16 degrees from John Adams
    16 degrees from Annie Butler
    16 degrees from Ina Coolbrith Coolbrith
    17 degrees from Charles Crocker
    17 degrees from Wyatt Earp
    23 degrees from George Fletcher
    16 degrees from James Hickok
    19 degrees from John Muir
    18 degrees from Leland Stanford
    18 degrees from Myra Starr
    37 degrees from Francisco Villa

    More about them:

    Daniel Boone, pioneer, explorer, and frontiersman who became one of America's first folk
    heroes and icons.

    John "Grizzly" Adams, legendary mountain man.

    Phoebe "Annie Oakley" Butler, sharpshooter and exhibition shooter.

    Josephine Coolbrith, California's first poet laureate.

    Charles Crocker, one of the founders of the Central Pacific Railroad, which constructed
    the westernmost portion of the first Transcontinental Railroad.

    Wyatt Earp, lawman, gambler, saloon keeper, and prospector, best remembered for his
    role in the gunfight at the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Arizona.

    George Fletcher, cowboy and rodeo rider.

    James "Wild Bill" Hickok, frontier lawman, gambler, and scout.

    John Muir, environmentalist and author.

    Amasa "Leland" Stanford, attorney, industrialist, philanthropist, and Republican Party
    politician from California.

    Myra "Belle" Starr, often called the "Bandit Queen," was a notorious outlaw.

    Jose Pancho Villa, El Centauro del Norte.

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    I have some ancestors that were actors, architects, astronauts, Afro-American, bank robbers, boxers, comedians, detectives, pro hockey players, singers and musicians, painters, physicians, politicians, poets, popes, writers. 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.

    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.

    Mike Dippel
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  • From Rob Mccart@954:895/54 to MIKE DIPPEL on Fri Sep 12 09:09:46 2025
    This week's Ancestry Connection features Western frontier notables.
    >Per wikitree.com, I am:

    14 degrees from Daniel Boone
    >16 degrees from John Adams
    >16 degrees from Annie Butler
    >16 degrees from Ina Coolbrith Coolbrith
    >17 degrees from Charles Crocker
    >17 degrees from Wyatt Earp
    >23 degrees from George Fletcher
    >16 degrees from James Hickok
    >19 degrees from John Muir
    >18 degrees from Leland Stanford
    >18 degrees from Myra Starr
    >37 degrees from Francisco Villa

    Is the higher the number, the closer you are related to the person
    or do I have that backwards?

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    * SLMR Rob * That's it, I've died and gone to Hell...
    * Origin: capitolcityonline.net * Telnet/SSH:2022/HTTP (954:895/54)
  • From Mike Dippel@954:895/1 to Rob Mccart on Fri Sep 12 10:13:26 2025
    On 9/12/2025 9:14 AM, Rob Mccart wrote to Mike Dippel:

    This week's Ancestry Connection features Western frontier notables.
    >Per wikitree.com, I am:

    14 degrees from Daniel Boone
    >16 degrees from John Adams
    >16 degrees from Annie Butler
    >16 degrees from Ina Coolbrith Coolbrith
    >17 degrees from Charles Crocker
    >17 degrees from Wyatt Earp
    >23 degrees from George Fletcher
    >16 degrees from James Hickok
    >19 degrees from John Muir
    >18 degrees from Leland Stanford
    >18 degrees from Myra Starr
    >37 degrees from Francisco Villa

    Is the higher the number, the closer you are related to the person
    or do I have that backwards?

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    * SLMR Rob * That's it, I've died and gone to Hell...
    * Origin: capitolcityonline.net * Telnet/SSH:2022/HTTP (954:895/54)

    The lower the number, the closer you are related. My relation to others could be from
    either my wife's side of the family or mine. But we are all related in some way. For me,
    that is part of the joy of doing the research.

    Mike Dippel


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