Genealogy

Introduction
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Family tree
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Hamilton, New York history (1872)
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Hiram and Nathan Holmes
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How many ancestors?
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Interests
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Lookups
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Other Holmeses
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Rich Holmes

Introduction

Academia:
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Physics Department
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Syracuse University
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RSH's physics web site

Interests:
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Games
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Genealogy
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Morris Dancing
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Music
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Books

Galutia YORK: Galutia, whose Civil War letters are the subject of an excellent web site, was my grandmother's third cousin. He was also her mother's close neighbor, and he was (deep breath) my grandmother's cousin's wife's uncle.
Millard FILLMORE: Twelfth Vice-President of the United States, and thirteenth President of the United States. Some consider him our least distinguished President. Our common ancestors were John PERKINS (1583-1654) and Judith GATER (1588-1684). Also descended from this couple was...
Charles Gates DAWES: U. S. Comptroller of the Currency, Director of U. S. Bureau of the Budget, and thirtieth Vice President of the United States. Getting back to FILLMORE, his successor in the Presidency was...
Franklin PIERCE: Fourteenth President of the United States. Our common ancestors were John EMERY (1598-1683) and Alice GRANTHAM (1599-1649).
Rutherford B. HAYES: Nineteenth President of the United States. Our common ancestor was George HAYES (ca 1655-1725). Rutherford's successor in office was another relative...
James GARFIELD: Twentieth President of the United States. The common ancestor here is Walter COOK (?-1696).
William Howard TAFT: Twenty-seventh President of the United States, and Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court. Our common ancestors were George ALDRICH (ca 1605-1682) and Katherine SEALD (ca 1610-1692).
Gerald R. FORD and Nelson Aldrich ROCKEFELLER: Ford was the fortieth Vice President of the United States, and thirty-eighth President of the United States -- and Rockefeller was his Vice President! (The forty-first; he also was Governor of New York State.) Apparently two of my ancestors from around the early 18th century, Hezekiah COLLINS (1707-1775) and Catherine GIFFORD (1718-1801), were also ancestors of FORD, while another one, John ALDRICH (1695-1776), was also an ancestor of ROCKEFELLER. Heck, if I'd known that at the time... well, no, I still wouldn't have voted for Ford...

Some interesting relationships

Everyone has relatives who married relatives in their family tree. (There wouldn't be enough ancestors to go around if they didn't.) Some are a little more startling than others, though. My favorite in my own line is my 2nd great grandmother, Mary Louisa BROWN, whose mother, father, and husband all were first cousins of one another! That is, her father's mother, mother's mother, and husband's father were all siblings. They also were second cousins on their mother's side and third cousins on their father's side of Mary's father's father, who was himself a child of two first cousins:


                                Thomas BROWN = Mary NEWHALL
                      _______________________|______________________
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                Eleazer BROWN           Jeremiah MAIN          Thomas BROWN
               ______|______            _____|_____                 |
              |             |          |           |                |
       James BROWN   Annah BROWN = Thomas MAIN  Jeremiah MAIN   Mary BROWN
              |             |                      |                |
      Zebulon BROWN = Anne MAIN                  Ruth MAIN = Bell YORK
                    |              ________________________|________
                    |             |                |                |
             Zebulon BROWN = Thede YORK       Mary YORK       Yeomans YORK
                                  |                |                |
                             Zebulon BROWN = Sarah LEWIS            |
                                           |                        |
                                      Mary Louisa BROWN = Lelen Collins YORK

This is the sort of thing that sends genealogists running to the nearest mirror to count their eyebrows...

Some relations and relationships

Genealogy

Rich Holmes

Some interesting relationships