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It's National Parks Week in the US, so we're looking at people who have
promoted and 
persisted in the development of national parks around the world.  The Featured 
Connections today are champions of park preservation.

I am:

16 degrees from Theodore Roosevelt - promoter of national parks and eponym of 
Theodore Roosevelt National Park

22 degrees from Stephanus Johannes Paulus Kruger - South African President
Paul 
Kruger, promoter and eponym of Kruger National Park

18 degrees from George Catlin - artist who promoted the idea of national parks
in the 
US

18 degrees from Marjory Douglas - worked to save the Everglades (US) and
create a 
national park there

25 degrees from Sueko Embrey - part of the concentration camp during World War
II at 
Manzanar (US) and promoted making the site a National Historic Site

18 degrees from George Grinnell - helped make Glacier National Park happen (US)

30 degrees from Anton Kroller - promoted the creation of De Hoge Veluwe
National Park 
(Netherlands)

19 degrees from Stephen Mather - first director of the National Park Service
(US) and 
eponym of Stephen Mather National Wilderness area

24 degrees from Kara McKean - first female park ranger at Tarra-Bulga National
Park in 
Australia

19 degrees from John Muir - "Father of National Parks" and namesake of Muir
Woods 
National Monument

18 degrees from Victoria Hanover - Queen Victoria, eponym of Victoria Falls in 
Zimbabwe

28 degrees from Charles Young - worked to create parks in the Sierra Nevada
mountain 
range (US)

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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