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Every week, members of the world-wide group of genealogists get together to
research 
a particular project. This week's project, and my Featured Connections are
Georgia 
notables.  I am:

20 degrees from Jimmy Carter - 39th President
of the United States

28 degrees from Charles Douglass -  in Macon County; operated the Douglass
Theatre.

19 degrees from Walter George - President pro tempore of the US Senate

17 degrees from Joel Harris - wrote novels, narrative histories, translations
of French 
folklore, children's literature, and collections of stories depicting rural
life in Georgia

19 degrees from Alonzo Herndon -  African American millionaire; one of the 29
founders 
of the Niagara Movement.

18 degrees from Crawford Long - He claimed to have been the first doctor to
have used 
ether as an anesthetic in surgery

22 degrees from Jefferson Long - a United States congressman from Georgia. He
was 
the second African-American sworn into the U.S. House of Representatives and
the first 
African-American congressman from Georgia.

18 degrees from William McIntosh - led a group that negotiated and signed a
treaty in 
1825 to cede much of remaining Creek lands to the United States in violation
of Creek 
law. Because of this, for the first time, the Creek Indian Council ordered
that a Creek be 
executed for crimes against the Nation.

18 degrees from Quillian Meaders - an Appalachian folk artist / potter best
known for 
face jugs

23 degrees from Jackie Robinson - baseball player for the Brooklyn Dodgers

19 degrees from Samuel Rumph - his work led to Georgia's nickname as the Peach 
State.

20 degrees from Hedy West - Prize winning Appalachian ballad and folk singer
whose 
songs highlighted blue collar mountain workers like farmers and coal miners.

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. 
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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