Geneastar: New Famous Family Trees Added in December 2022

Have you ever heard of Geneastar? Geneastar is a Geneanet website that focuses on the genealogy of famous people.

Some new famous family trees have been added to Geneastar in December 2022:

• William C. Campbell, One of the most distinguished amateur golfers in golf history
• Delta Burke, American actress, producer, and author
• Gerald McRaney, American television and film actor
• Jim Beaver, American actor, writer, and film historian
• Mike d’Abo, English singer and songwriter, best known as the lead vocalist of Manfred Mann
• Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden, American geologist
• Kim Dickens, American actress
• k.d. lang, Canadian pop and country singer-songwriter and occasional actress
• Maryam d’Abo, British actress
• Laurence Fox, English actor and political activist
• John B. Felton, American jurist and politician who served as the 14th Mayor of Oakland, California
• Henry Weston Smith, American preacher and early resident of Deadwood, South Dakota
• Calamity Jane, American frontierswoman, sharpshooter, and storyteller
• Al Swearengen, American pimp and entertainment entrepreneur who ran the Gem Theater
• Timothy Olyphant, American actor
• Edward Darlington, American lawyer and politician
• E. B. Farnum, American merchant and politician
• William Sanderson, American retired actor
• Georgia Tennant, English actress and producer
• John Gielgud, English actor and theatre director
• Mitch Mitchell, English drummer and child actor, who was best known for his work in the Jimi Hendrix Experience
• Billie Piper, English actress and former singer
• Isabel Darlington, American lawyer
• Leah Chase, American chef
• Jill St. John, American actress
• Nate Ruess, American singer
• Daniel Sickles, American politician, soldier, and diplomat
• Noah Wyle, American actor
• Mark Pinter, American actor
• John A. Burns, American politician, 2nd Governor of Hawaii
• Steny Hoyer, American politician and attorney
• Annabelle Dexter-Jones, British-American actress and director
• Dave Cowens, American former professional basketball player and NBA head coach
• George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon, English peer and aristocrat best known as the financial backer of the search for and excavation of Tutankhamun’s tomb in the Valley of the Kings
• Ogden Mills, American financier and Thoroughbred racehorse owner
• Kathy Hochul, American politician, 57th Governor of New York
• Will Patton, American actor and audiobook narrator
• Herschel F. Briles, United States Army soldier and a recipient of the United States military’s highest decoration—the Medal of Honor—for his actions in World War II
• Frederick H. Gillett, American politician
• Jack White, American musician, best known as the lead singer and guitarist of the duo the White Stripes
• McKinlay Kantor, American journalist, novelist and screenwriter
• Ernest Becker, American cultural anthropologist and author
• Lauren Chapin, American former child actress
• Billy Gray, American actor, competitive motorcycle racer and inventor

If you have a famous genealogy in your family tree, you can submit it to Geneastar at: https://en.geneastar.org/propose

The person must have a Wikipedia page and a portrait (photo, painting, engraving), and the family tree must contain at least 5 generations of ancestors on at least one branch.

If you are a Premium member, you can automatically match your family tree to the Geneastar database to find some famous relatives. Simply go to https://en.geneanet.org/compare/ and click “New Search” in the “Famous people” section.

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