Saturday Night Genealogy Fun -- Try out the FamilySearch "Famous Relatives" Page

 Calling all Genea-Musings Fans: 

 It's Saturday Night again - 

Time for some more Genealogy Fun!!

Your mission, should you decide to accept it (cue the Mission Impossible! music) is to:

1)  FamilySearch has a page for "Famous Relatives" at   https://www.familysearch.org/en/discovery/famousrelatives.  It works if you are connected to the FamilySearch Family Tree.

2)  Check out the website.  Which connection surprises you?  Do you believe that the connection is correct?

3)  Share your famous relative connection in your own blog post or in a Facebook, SubStack, BlueSky or other social media post.  Leave a link to your post on this blog post to help us find your post.

Here's mine:

My surprise connection on the FamilySearch Famous Relatives page was with George Washington:

Do I believe or trust this relationship?  

The line in my family tree goes back to Elizabeth --?-- (ca1615-1694), who married Richard Sawtell in 1637 in Massachusetts.  The FamilySearch Family Tree says that Elizabeth is Elizabeth Pope (1611-1694), daughter of Stephen and Jane (Neame) Pope, and granddaughter of  Thomas and Sarah (Van Gelder) Pope. who are the purported common ancestors for me and George Washington.  However, FamilySearch Family Tree has no sources connecting Elizabeth Pope to Stephen and Jane (Neame) Pope.

The WikiTree profile for Elizabeth --?--, wife of Richard Sawtell, is at   https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Unknown-361521.  The discussion about Elizabeth's parentage is persuasive, and leads me to NOT BELIEVE or trust the FamilySearch connection.  

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