Posted by Jean-Yves on Apr 4, 2023
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 March 2023:
- Colgate Darden, American lawyer and politician
- Andrew J. West, American actor
- Amber Stevens West, American actress
- Henry M. Ridgely, American lawyer and politician
- Zach Braff, American actor and filmmaker
- Sid Miller, American politician
- Ben Ames Williams, American novelist and writer of short stories
- Benoni S. Fuller, American educator and politician
- Danny Ainge, American former professional basketball player, coach, and professional baseball player
- Asia Kate Dillon, American actor
- Roger Williams, American businessman and politician
- William Henry Smyth, Royal Navy officer, hydrographer, astronomer and numismatist
- George Howard Earle III, american politician and diplomat
- Blake Wayne Van Leer, United States Navy officer
- Octave Thanet, American novelist and short fiction writer
- William Polk, American banker, educational administrator, political leader, and renowned Continental officer in the War for American Independence
- Peter T. Washburn, American lawyer, politician and soldier
- David Marston Clough, American lumberman and politician
- P. G. T. Beauregard, Confederate general officer of Louisiana Creole
- Roland H. Hartley, Canadian-American politician
- Lance Reddick, American actor and musician
- Vernon Rudolph, American businessman who founded Krispy Kreme Doughnuts, Inc.
- Charlie Baker, American businessman and politician
- Ozias M. Hatch, American politician
- Josephine Cochrane, Aamerican inventor who invented the first successful hand-powered dishwasher
- Julia Tuttle, American businesswoman who owned the property upon which Miami, Florida, was built
- Gary Graham, American actor, musician, and author
- Dawn Rochelle Warner, American model, actress, television host and entrepreneur
- Seth Avett, American musician, one of the lead singers and founding members of the American folk-rock band The Avett Brothers
- Michael C. Hall, American actor and singer
- Jennifer Carpenter, American actress
- Bud Grant, American football player and coach in the National Football League (NFL) and Canadian Football League (CFL)
- Evan Bayh, American lawyer, lobbyist, and Democratic Party politician
- John Fitch, American inventor, clockmaker, entrepreneur, and engineer
- Marc Almond, English singer
- William B. Washburn, American businessman and politician
- Artimus Pyle, American musician who played drums with the southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd from 1974 to 1977 and from 1987 to 1991
- Billy Powell, American musician and keyboardist of Southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd from 1972 until his death in 2009
- Leon Wilkeson, American musician
- Steve Gaines, American musician
- Jane G. Austin, American writer
- Curtis Guild Jr., American journalist, soldier, diplomat and politician
- Allen Collins, American guitarist, one of the founding members and guitarists of the southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd
- Chuck Smith, American pastor who founded the Calvary Chapel movement
- David O. Selznick, American film producer, screenwriter and film studio executive
- William P. Murphy, American physician
- William Pepperrell, Merchant and soldier in colonial Massachusetts
- John Fremont Hill, American businessman and politician
- Gary Rossington, American musician and songwriter, best known as a founding member of Southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd
- David Cobb, American physician, military officer, jurist, and politician
- Edmund Pettus, American lawyer and politician
- Morgan Spurlock, American documentary filmmaker, humorist, television producer, screenwriter and playwright
- Benjamin Apthorp Gould, American astronomer
- Charles D. Drake, United States senator from Missouri and Chief Justice of the Court of Claims
- Gary Herbert, American politician who served as the 17th Governor of Utah
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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