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Researching family history is fun and rewarding.

 
I became interested in my family's history after listening to endless stories that my dad used to tell me. He came from a very large family, yet he knew a lot about each person in the family.

My cousin, Tammy Stanley, became interested in hosting the family reunion after attending a reunion at which everybody seemed bored. Instead of just having the family get together in a large room and stare at each other, Tammy put her heart and soul into making sure everyone had a good time. At every reunion she distributes an updated family history from data we receive from family members, research groups, and individual research.
 
 
Extended Family

In my research I have found the following list of people (among others) in our extended family tree: 

Charlemagne

 Robert E. Lee

William Tecumseh Sherman

Pocahontas

Wild Bill Hickok

Henry, Jane, Peter & Bridgett Fonda

Don Imus

Brook Shields

Louisa May Alcott

George HW & George W Bush

Kirk & Michael Douglas

Barack Obama

Gerald Ford

James A Garfield

Franklin Pierce

Samuel Morse

Samuel Colt

Emily Dickinson

Grover Cleveland

George Gallup

Eli Whitney

Calvin Coolidge

Woodrow Wilson

Adm Richard Byrd

Montgomery Clift

Jane Wyatt

David Crosby

The Osmonds

John Hinkley, Jr

Brian, Carl & Dennis Wilson

Herbert Hoover

William Howard Taft

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Humphrey Bogart

Janet Leigh

Jamie Lee Curtis

Winston Churchill

Diana, Princess of Wales

Kevin Bacon

Rutherford B Hayes

Harriett Beecher Stowe

Lillian & Dorothy Gish

Sigourney Weaver

Spring Byington

Sydney Biddle Barrows

Dick Cheney

Walt Disney

Alan Shepard

John Hancock

Brigham Young

Franklin D Roosevelt

John Kerry

Richard Nixon

Norman Rockwell

Marilyn Monroe

Theodore Roosevelt

Susan B Anthony

Christopher Reeve

George Eastman

Clint Eastwood

Vlad the Impaler (Dracula)

Hugh Hefner

Douglas MacArthur

The Rockefellers

Clara Barton

Joseph Smith

Ulysses S Grant

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Glenn Close

Benedict Arnold

Bette Davis

Abraham Lincoln

Orville & Wilbur Wright

Anthony Perkins

Alec, Billy, Steven & Daniel Baldwin

Johnny Carson

Napoleon Bonaparte

 

Research Tips

Be sure to evaluate the source of your information. Remember, you can't believe everything you read!

Remember, most everyone has two family names: your father's, but also your mother's. Don't feel you must restrict your research to just your paternal family tree.

Investigate all possible spellings of your family names - some names have evolved and changed over the years.

Research DATES along with NAMES - many families used the same names several times.
Here are a few links to interesting genealogy web sites I came across in the course of doing my research:

The Hogg Surname Centre

National Archives and Records Adminisration

GenForum