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   This week's theme is an Irish Connection Checker.  Per wikitree.com, I am:   
      
   22 degrees from C. S. Lewis - author known for the beloved world of Narnia   
      
   30 degrees from George Best - renowned football (soccer) player   
      
   25 degrees from Pierce Brosnan - actor known for his time playing "James Bond"   
      
   20 degrees from Catherine Coleman - war correspondent   
      
   25 degrees from Charles Duffy - journalist, poet, tenant rights activist, and   
   the    
   8th Premier of Victoria, Australia   
      
   25 degrees from Georgie Frost -  activist whose legal campaign led to the law    
   giving women the right to hold public office   
      
   19 degrees from Nancy Grosvenor - Duchess of Westminster and owner of horse    
   Arkle, 3-time winner of the Cheltenham Gold Cup   
      
   22 degrees from Mÿcheal O Coileain - 20th Century Irish revolutionary   
      
   21 degrees from Mary Peirce-Evans - pilot   
      
   19 degrees from George Bernard Shaw - Nobel prize-winning playwright   
      
   23 degrees from Robert Wilson - Captain who used his ship to ferry enslaved    
   people on the Underground Railroad   
      
   25 degrees from William Yeats - Nobel prize-winning poet   
      
   I have some ancestors that were actors, architects, astronauts, black, bank   
   robbers,    
   comedians, detectives, singers and musicians, politicians, poets, physicians,   
   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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