A cousin has been doing research into our ancestors. We already knew from my grandmothers research that our 1st ancestors came over on the Mayflower, we had some Sioux Indian blood, P.G. county was given to our family as a land grant from Lord Calvert (the 2nd Lord Baltimore) and that we were descendants to George Washington. My grandmother also stated we were related to the Black Knight of England but I always heard that "person" was a myth.
I can't wait to get the paperwork, but my cousin has found family links to 3 other Presidents (JFK being 1 and the other side of the family is related to Jackie O), the Queen of England (which makes sense b/c Lord Calvert would have given land grants to his family and close friends and he was already royalty himself.)
But what explains it all, we are related to John Wayne. That covers why JJ always wants to dress up as a cowboy and why my Dad used to. It's in the blood. And I was pleasantly surprised to find out that we are also related to Katherine, thus in turn, Audrey Hepburn.
But, no matter what, when JJ gets older I will love telling him how he is a 1st generation American (being John wasn't born in the states) but he has so much of a full history tying him to America, something I hope he can be proud of (yeah, yeah, I know, even though we had nothing to do with what other people did in the past...)
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Oh how cool...I recall when my Grandmother and Uncle started our family geneology project and how exciting it was finding out your distant past!
I have a terrific family tree computer program if you ever want a copy - you can add all sorts of pics, details, you name it, for even realyl distantly related folks.
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