Subj : Scottish Notables
To   : All
From : Mike Dippel
Date : Wed Jan 25 2023 10:43:44

Tonight is "Burns Night" in Scotland, honoring the poet Robert Burns, so this week's 
Featured Connections are Scottish notables.  Per wikitree.com, I am:

19 degrees from Alexander Graham Bell
24 degrees from Robert Bruce King Robert Ist of Scots
22 degrees from Robert Burns - Scottish poet and lyricist
23 degrees from Sean Connery
17 degrees from Kenneth Grahame -  Secretary of the Bank of England in 1908
31 degrees from Lulu Kennedy-Cairns -  Scottish singer, songwriter, actress, and 
television personality

32 degrees from Annie Lennox - Scottish singer-songwriter, political activist and 
philanthropist

21 degrees from Flora MacDonald - Jacobite heroine
19 degrees from Robert Stevenson -  prolific writer, most famous for Treasure_Island 
(1883), The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886), Kidnapped (1886), and his 
children's poem collection A Child's Garden of Verses (1885).

20 degrees from Charles Stuart - was a member of Scottish Nobility

27 degrees from James Watt - Invented the Watt steam engine with a condensing 
chamber, patented in 1769, which converted steam back to water; Developed a rotary 
engine that mechanized weaving, spinning and transport; Introduced the term 
horsepower

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.

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
telnet/http hobbylinebbs.com
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