Hello all!
I'm a writer of several non-fiction books (including 'The Year of Living Biblically' and 'Drop Dead Healthy.' My current book, It's All Relative: Adventures Up and Down the World's Family Tree is about genealogy and tracing my roots. And for the finale of the book, I threw one of the largest family reunions in history.
Since we're all cousins, all seven billion members of the human family were welcome. Those who had a confirmed link to me received a special bracelet and were part of the record-breaking family photo.
It was exciting to use collaborative genealogy and WikiTree as part of this project. I had so many great volunteers working on my tree -- so thank you for that.
For more information on me and the start my project, here is a New York Times article I wrote when I first started this journey... http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/01/opinion/sunday/are-you-my-cousin.html
And here's a link to my website page about it
AJ JACOBS GLOBAL FAMILY REUNION
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AJ is 22 degrees from John James Audubon, 26 degrees from Jacques-Yves Cousteau, 36 degrees from Gerald Durrell, 21 degrees from Dian Fossey, 22 degrees from Steve Irwin, 33 degrees from Ernest Just, 28 degrees from Ian Player, 22 degrees from Peter Scott, 33 degrees from Antoon van Hooff and 23 degrees from Marta Johnson on our single family tree. Login to find your connection.
Hope you get some great new information in the WikiTree Challenge 2021! I am on the team for CeCe Moore for next week. Should be very interesting. - NGP
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All of us at WikiTree would like to thank you for your contributions and hope that you are enjoying exploring your roots.
I look forward to hearing from you soon.
Michelle ~ Volunteer Coordinator
Jamie
The Hawsons date back to 1761, The Tobins date back to the early 1800's; We named our daughter Andrea Jane Eblen and throughout her basketball career she was known as AJ. Cheers Jane Eblen
But what I have read so far, is great. Mind you I am only up to chapter 12 so far.
Good luck with whatever the next book you have planned, and the adventures for that.