I'm connected to some local teachers, that I've found our Colemans were singers. One of our famous Johnny Coleman's was a singer at our local Ceramic Theatre in the early 1900's! He & his wife, also was known as "The Singing Coleman's, too! I found soemthing about them online, & was planning to go view the playlist at the University of Pittsburgh, but didn't get to do that, but hoping to put that on agenda next time! Oh & my gr. grandfather was connected to the Salvation Army, in some way, perhaps helping to start one in my hometown? Not sure I haven't been able to find out anything except what it said in his obituary, & when I wrote the local Salvation Army they said they didn't know any connection, so back to square one again, but interesting to think about, & I'll just keep looking. And my present day, brush with fame, is my brother-in-law was the Head football coach for the local school, & took them to many H.S. Championships! Woo-hoo! They've moved onto another school, & is an athletic director now. I didn't know that Betsy Ross's name wasn't the same as that? Someone just burst my history bubble! Grinning, Cathy > [Original Message] > From: Lynn Vondran <lynnvondran@att.net> > To: <padutch-life@rootsweb.com> > Date: 8/13/2007 10:11:27 AM > Subject: [PD-LIFE] Connections to the famous > > How interesting the connections you have to these people, Sheila!!! > Somewhere we have connections to John Philip Sousa, and the Dorsey Brothers. I'm still digging for that information, but the family who has it, doesn't get into family research much, except they love it when I send what I find :o( > Lynn > > Sheila wrote: We really never know what we will find in doing our genealogy search!! I have been intrigued with what I have found....I have The Tyndales and Taylors who were Protestants, and then the Radclyffes who were supportive of The Catholic Scottish Dynasty, and the Claypools who married into the family of Oliver Cromwell! All an interesting mix! And I must not foget the many Quakers in my family, among those, The Claypools. One of my Claypools also married the daughter of Oliver Cromwell, and one married Elizabeth Griscom, aka Betsy Ross. She was excommunicated from The Quaker Church. > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to PADUTCH-LIFE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.5.476 / Virus Database: 269.11.17/951 - Release Date: 8/13/2007 10:15 AM