• Famous Fathers

    From Mike Dippel@3:712/1321.5 to ALL on Wed Jun 11 09:29:28 2025
    With the coming of Father's Day, here are some famous fathers that I am related to.

    Per wikitree.com I am:

    19 degrees from Ozzie Nelson - the father on the TV show "The Adventures of Ozzie and
    Harriet", father of David and Ricky Nelson

    23 degrees from Johann Sebastian Bach - Baroque composer and father to a large family
    of musicians

    19 degrees from Billy Bishop - WWI Flying Ace and devoted father whose children
    followed in his aviation footsteps

    23 degrees from Sean Connery - best known as his role of James Bond, but also known
    as the father of "Indiana Jones", and a devoted father to his real-life son

    20 degrees from Charles Darwin - father of evolution and a doting father of ten

    25 degrees from Victor Hugo - loving father and author of "Les Miserables" and "The
    Hunchback of Notre Dame"

    16 degrees from Daniel Massey - patriarch of the Massey family, which went on to found
    Massey-Ferguson farm machinery company

    18 degrees from Nicholas II - Russian emperor and father who went to great lengths to
    care for his children

    16 degrees from Theodore Roosevelt - US President known for his relationships with his
    children

    25 degrees from Amos Jacobs (Danny Thomas) - father, actor, and philanthropist known
    for founding St. Jude's Children's Hospital and ASLAC

    18 degrees from John Tyler - US President with the most children (14)

    43 degrees from Richard Williams - father of tennis stars Venus and Serena Williams

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    I have some ancestors that were actors, architects, astronauts, black, bank robbers,
    boxers, comedians, detectives, 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.

    Mike Dippel
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