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 June 2023:
- Kinsley S. BINGHAM, American politician and lawyer
- William BRADFORD, American lawyer and judge
- Thomas LAW, Reformer of British policy in India, where he served as collector of revenue for the East India Company
- Button GWINNETT, British-born American Founding Father
- Austin BLAIR, American politician, 13th governor of Michigan
- William Samuel JOHNSON, American Founding Father and statesman
- Maria MITCHELL, American astronomer, librarian, naturalist, and educator
- John LANGDON, American politician and Founding Father
- Chris ISAAK, American singer, songwriter, guitarist and occasional actor
- Andrew Patrick RALSTON, American actor
- Robert CATESBY, Leader of a group of English Catholics who planned the failed Gunpowder Plot of 1605
- Abraham CLARK, American Founding Father, politician, and Revolutionary War figure
- Tim DALY, American actor
- Joseph GLIDDEN, American businessman and farmer, inventor of the modern barbed wire
- George WYTHE, American academic, scholar and judge who was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States
- Audrey Marie ANDERSON, American actress and model
- Lloyd Groff COPEMAN, American inventor
- Joseph HEWES, American Founding Father and a signer of the Continental Association and U.S. Declaration of Independence
- Mason WILLIAMS, American classical guitarist, composer, singer, writer, comedian, and poet
- Gabrielle UNION, American actress
- Diamonté Quiava Valentin SAWEETIE, American rapper
- Jubal EARLY, American lawyer, politician and military officer who served in the Confederate States Army during the Civil War
- Kim WAYANS, American actress and comedian
- Laura PREPON, American actress
- Ben FOSTER, American actor
- Lisa Robin KELLY, American actress
- Debra Jo RUPP, American actress
- Ryan Kiera ARMSTRONG, American actress
- David Hunter STROTHER, American journalist, artist, brevet Brigadier General, innkeeper, politician and diplomat
- Bethel LESLIE, American actress and screenwriter
- George H. STEUART, American planter and military officer
- Thomas HEYWARD JR., American Founding Father, lawyer, jurist, and politician
- Stephen ROOT, American actor
- Nettie STEVENS, American geneticist who discovered sex chromosomes
- Abraham Watkins VENABLE, American politician and lawyer
- Joni SLEDGE, American singer best known as a founding member of the family vocal group Sister Sledge
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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