A lifetime of learning and common knowledge has taught us
that it just can’t be true. It is impossible, isn’t it?
One person can’t really have actual family ties to the
Wright Brothers, both Lewis and Clark, Francis Scott Key, more than 40 U.S.
Presidents and Vice Presidents, 24 signers of the Declaration of Independence,
20 signers of the Magna Charta, Lee and Grant and other military leaders from
many of the most famous battles in history, Prince William and Prince Harry,
the author of “Alice in Wonderland” plus dozens of other authors and artists,
Walt Disney, dozens of past and present Hollywood celebrities, and people from
the Bible, can he or she?
Actually, if the ancestral history recorded over the
centuries by many of the most respected experts of their time is to be
believed, the answer is definitely yes. And the generation-by-generation
connections can now be seen in the Family Forest®.
Kinship reports generated by the world’s most interconnected
digital resource for ancestral history (the Family Forest®) show that Senator
Kerry is, President Bush is, both Prince Charles and Princess Diana are, and
most hereditary heirs of European thrones are.
Family Forest® kinship reports also show that dozens of past and present
Hollywood celebrities are, including Humphrey Bogart, Katharine Hepburn, Olivia
de Havilland, Bette Davis, Lucile Ball, Lee Marvin, Orson Wells, Joanne
Woodward, Brooke Shields, Oliver Platt, Michael Douglas, Jamie Lee Curtis, and
More surprising is the number of everyday people (friends,
co-workers, people at the supermarket and mall, etc.) who share so many of
these actual family ties to important human history. This surprise came to me
late primarily because of just one fact.
The vast majority of the growth of the Family Forest® has been earlier
than 1850. In general, the ancestral pathways we have extended to present day
so far have been to famous people.
Even though tens of millions of people have far more of
their own ancestral pathways mapped out in the Family Forest® now than they can
see anywhere else, their personal connection points are usually one to three
As we have begun responding to customer requests to extend
specific ancestral pathways down to their immediate family, we found that we
can offer parents and grandparents a priceless gift of family heritage for them
to pass along to their children and grandchildren. This gift was not possible
before, and it cannot be found anywhere else.
These fortunate children will be able to start with
themselves and point-and-click travel through ancestral pathways to discover
and explore their own actual family ties to a very large number of the famous
people and events they will study in school.
I can’t help but wonder how much richer my life might have
been if I had been given this intriguing personalized resource to ignite my
intellectual curiosity at an early age while I was still in school.