Today's focus is on Black History Month. Per wikitree.com I am:

18 degrees from Booker T. Washington
17 degrees from Muhammad Ali
22 degrees from Maya Angelou
23 degrees from Ernie Banks
25 degrees from Aretha Franklin
22 degrees from Henry Louis Gates
22 degrees from Althea Gibson
21 degrees from Arthur Gregg
18 degrees from Langston Hughes
22 degrees from Rosa Parks
19 degrees from Sidney Poitier
21 degrees from Sojourner Truth

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More about them:

Booker T. Washington, educator, author, orator, and founder of Tuskegee Institute.

Muhammed Ali, considered the greatest heavyweight boxer of all time.

Maya Angelou, acclaimed poet, memoirist, and activist.

Ernie Banks, considered one of the greatest baseball players of all time.

Aretha Franklin, the "Queen of Soul."

Henry Louis Gates, historian, professor, literary critic, and host of "Finding Your Roots."

Althea Gibson, broke the color barrier in tennis and golf.

Lt. Gen. Arthur Gregg, first Black Army officer to attain the rank of Lt. General.

Langston Hughes, poet and author who helped lead the Harlem Renaissance.

Rosa Parks, civil rights activist known for her bus seat protest.

Sidney Poitier, actor, film director, and first African American to win an Academy Award.

Sojourner Truth, former slave who was an abolitionist and civil rights activist.

More about them:

Ansel Adams, naturalist and photographer who used his art to encourage conservation.

Genie Clark, "The Shark Lady" known for her use of scuba diving in research.

Jacques Cousteau, marine explorer, researcher, and conservationist who helped develop
the aqua lung and shared his adventures in film.

Gerald Durrell, conservationist, author, and founder of Jersey zoo. His writings about his
family inspired the television series "The Durrells in Corfu."

David Fleay, naturalist who pioneered breeding endangered species in captivity, including
the emu and the platypus.

Dian Fossey, zoologist famous for her 18-year intensive study of gorillas.

George Bird Grinnell, founder of the National Audubon Society.

Steve Irwin, conservationist and animal enthusiast who has inspired many to care for
animals and their habitat. His wife, Terri, and their children, continue his work at their
Australia Zoo.

John Thomas Miner, "Wild Goose Jack" founded one of North America's first bird sanctuaries and was one of the first to use banding to track migratory birds.

John Muir, father of the US Parks System.

Margaret Murie, naturalist who encouraged the passage of the Wilderness Act and in
creating the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

Gifford Pinchot, former Pennsylvania governor and a leading voice in environmental
conservation at the beginning of the 20th century.

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I have some ancestors that were actors, architects, astronauts, Afro-American, authors, bank robbers, boxers, comedians, detectives, ghosts, holocaust survivors
Indian chiefs, pro hockey players, singers and musicians, painters, physicians,
politicians, poets, popes, writers, WW I heroes. 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. It is totally free and very useful to genealogists.

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I have researched the ancestry for many persons interested in their family history,
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