Finding Your Famous (& Infamous) Ancestors. By Rhonda R. McClure. Softcover (2003), 232 pp., illustrated, indexed. Rhonda McClure's outstanding guide to researching the celebrities, rogues, and royals in your family tree. This illustrated "how-to" book includes details about popular family legends, such as lost fortunes, kinships to outlaws, presidents, and other well-known historical figures. The author gives advice about researching your own ancestry, finding "black sheep" in the family tree, and examining claims of royal connections. Finding Your Famous (& Infamous) Ancestors introduces readers to resources about the famous and infamous online, at libraries, in original records, and compiled genealogies. Rhonda McClure also shares her expertise with advice about evidence and the pitfalls of publishing or posting unproven connections to famous individuals. McClure illustrates her guide with ancestor charts for several celebrities, including Keith Carradine, George Clooney, Bing Crosby, Tom Cruise, Ralph Fiennes, Goldie Hawn, Audrey Hepburn, Charlton Heston, Elizabeth Montgomery, Bob Newhart, Brad Pitt, Sissy Spacek, and Jimmy Stewart, among others. Price includes shipping. TX residents add 8.25% sales tax. |
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