What ever happened to Olympics stars of yesteryear? Can we connect them?

Question

Modern Olympic games have been played for over 100 years. How many winners are connected on wikitree?

Answer 1

Here's two I'd love to see connected:

http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Spitz-69

http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Schollander-1

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Don't forget this guy...

http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Schwarzenegger-1

EDIT: While he was a power lifter in competitions, I really thought he was in the Olympics - according to what I can find, he was not. My mistake.

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No profile that I can find for Johnny Weissmuller

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Weissmuller

No profile that I can find for Carl Lewis

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Lewis

Lots of other Gold Medalists on this page that would be interesting to include:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_multiple_Olympic_gold_medalists

Answer 2

My cousin:  http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Miller-24223   Highest medaled US Gymnist. Also, part of the Magnificent Seven from the 1996 Olympics. Don't have her connected to the global tree... Would love help! :)

http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Category:Magnificent_Seven

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And that would mean this SSN Death record is his too:

"United States Social Security Death Index," database, FamilySearch(https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:J2RM-N2K : 20 May 2014), Charles O Miller, 14 Feb 2001; citing U.S. Social Security Administration, Death Master File, database (Alexandria, Virginia: National Technical Information Service, ongoing).

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If that's his SSDI then this shows different parents:  Ancestry.com. U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015.

Name:	Charles Miller [Charles O Miller]
SSN:	304107562
Gender:	Male
Race:	White
Birth Date:	23 Jan 1918
Birth Place:	Cando, North Dakota
Death Date:	14 Feb 2001
Father:	C O Miller
Mother:	Della Ehrsam
Type of Claim:	Original SSN.
Notes:	Dec 1936: Name listed as CHARLES MILLER; 22 Feb 2001: Name listed as CHARLES O MILLER

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Whoa - this is a nice article. So if we're on the right track, this goes into Mabel's family tree too...

http://atascosacounty.blogspot.com/2007/11/brite-cemetery-gets-historical-marker.html

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AHA - and it says in there that Mabel Lee Neill Miller is Shannon's Grandmother! There we go.

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OK - so I looked up North Dakota Charles O's - and found this:

"United States Census, 1920," database with images, FamilySearch(https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MC8G-JRR : 14 December 2015), Charles E Miller in household of Homer C Miller, Zion, Towner, North Dakota, United States; citing sheet 10A, NARA microfilm publication T625 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 1,821,340.

"United States Census, 1930", database with images, FamilySearch(https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X41F-SP3 : 8 December 2015), Charles O Miller Jr. in entry for Charles O Miller, 1930.

"United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch(https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VR2X-1M2 : accessed 12 August 2016), Charles Miller in household of C N Miller, Byron Township, Stafford, Kansas, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 93-2, sheet 2A, family 25, Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940, NARA digital publication T627. Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790 - 2007, RG 29. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012, roll 1262.

Looks like they moved around a lot. Father from Indiana, he was born in North Dakota, moved to Indiana, then to Kansas - I suppose they could have ended up in Texas, or he enlisted and after the war ended up in Texas. I'm OK with that story too.

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Found this: http://hayden.org/genealogy/familygroup.php?familyID=F2501&tree=OurTree

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Scratch that 1940 Census - I'm pretty sure that's the wrong person.

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Very nice! I think we've got enough proof to add the parents, if you're happy with the evidence. :)

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Absolutely... now to catch up on my database to add all that. :) LOL Working on what I found on that one site also. Thanks! :)

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Here's a link on the Miller side that should be helpful:

https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/2:1:MC1J-GCG

Answer 3

I have added a few, from the 1936 gold winning Seattle rowing crew, and will continue with this little project:

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Rantz-89

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Moch-55

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/McMillin-423

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Hume-1980

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Hunt-22976

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/White-67097

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Morris-32386

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Day-16876

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Adam-2810

I got a Native American Olympian on there, too:

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Tewanima-1

If anyone wishes to help expand on their families, I don't have time to do it all myself.