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Unconnected Notables

Unconnected Notables

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Introduction

(Note: This page is a sub-page of the Connectors Chat page and the Notables Project. For more details about what's going on here, please read the Connectors Chat page. Also, please post any messages about what's happening on this page on the Connectors Chat page.)

This table lists notables who have profiles on WikiTree that are not yet connected to the main tree.

  • The "Branch Size" number is the total number of profiles in the branch that contains that notable's profile. (If the branch size is 1, it means that that notable has not been linked to any parent, spouse, or child's profile.)
  • The "Name" is the full name for that notable, or the name by which they are commonly known.
  • The "Last Name At Birth" is normally that notable's last name at birth. (If that notable is from a culture which does not use last names, then the Last Name At Birth will be whatever is used in that person's WikiTree ID.)
  • The "Country" cell includes any country where somebody from that branch was born. (Note that many branches spread over more than one country, so you may miss some branches that are at least partly in the country you're looking for if you sort the table by this column. To make sure that you find all of them, try searching within this page using Control-F if you're running Linux or Windows, or Command-F if you're running macOS.)
  • The "Notable As" cell is a short description of why that person is considered to be notable.
  • An asterisk (*) in the "Five Star" column means that that person's profile is considered "5 star". In other words, it has received at least 1,000 total views from at least 100 separate visitors in the past year. These profiles need special attention to improve them, and help WikiTree put our best foot forward. See Chris' announcement, "Will you help us improve the most-visited profiles?" for more details.
  • The "Badge Needed" column will say "1700" if that notable was born before 1700, or "1500" if that notable was born before 1500. If you want to work on pre-1700 profiles, you need to take the Pre-1700 Self-Certification. If you want to work on pre-1500 profiles, you need to request a Pre-1500 Certification.
  • If there is an asterisk (*) in the "1900" column, it means that person was alive in the year 1900. This is to mark profiles that are eligible for inclusion in La Belle Époque Project.

The default sort for the list is first by whether the person is a "5 star" notable, then by the number of profiles in that branch, then by coutry, then by surname, then by given name, but you can sort the list by any column (Branch Size, Name, Last Name At Birth, Country, Notable As, or Working On) by clicking on the sort symbol in the header for that column.

Free space profiles (like this one) work pretty much the same way that profiles for people do, so all the same syntax applies. So to show that you are working on a branch, edit this page, scroll down to the listing you want to work on, and replace the number at the end of the line with two opening square brackets ([), then your WikiTree ID, then a pipe (|), then your name, then two closing square brackets (]), like this: [[Example-123|Ferdinand Grubstake]].

Similarly, when you connect a branch (or discover one that's already connected), add Connected (or Found connected) and then the date. Put three single quotes (') before and after "connected" to put it into bold, like this: "'Connected'" February 29, 2020. One of the page pruners will then delete that entry in a couple of weeks, after everybody has had a chance to celebrate the new connection.

Feel free to add more unconnected notables, but please do not add notables whose profiles are not set to Open. Connecting is hard enough without having to deal with privacy restrictions.

For more places to find unconnected notables, see the "Resources" section at the bottom of this page.

Unconnected Notables

Branch Size Name Last Name At Birth Country Notable As Five Star Badge Needed 1900 Working On
113 Dred Scott Scott USA Enslaved man whose lawsuit to be emancipated led to the Civil War * Found connected 2025-01-12.
104 Sarah Rector Rector USA Oil magnate *
74 Hector Boiardi Boiardi Italy Chef Boy-Ar-Dee * *
71 Geronimo Apache Mexico, USA Apache leader * *
47 Oskar Schindler Schindler Austria Righteous Among the Nations * Found connected 2025-01-12.
32 Jeanne Louise Calment Calment France Supercentenarian * *
22 Louis Le Prince Le Prince France Inventor *
19 Leonardo da Vinci Vinci Italy Artist, Inventor * 1500
18 Mohandas Gandhi Gandhi India Leader of Indian nationalism * *
18 Murdoch Nesbit Nesbit Scotland Bible translator * 1500
15 William Kidd Kidd Scotland Privateer *
11 John Wood Wood England Clothier *
11 Nelson Mandela Mandela South Africa Activist and president *
10 Adriaen Block Block Netherlands Privateer * 1700
10 John Walker Walker Scotland Founder of Johnnie Walker *
8 Pierre Charles L'Enfant L'Enfant France City planner of Washington, D.C. *
7 John Carpenter Carpenter England Member of Parliament and Common Clerk of London * 1500
7 Joan of Arc D'Arc France Heroine of France * 1500
6 Jean Henri Dunant Dunant Switzerland Founder of the Red Cross * *
5 John Calvin Cauvin France Reformer * 1700
4 Jean-Paul Marat Marat Germany Political theorist and scientist *
4 George Washington Carver Carver USA Inventor * *
4 Sam Giancana Giangana USA Mobster *
3 John Caesar Caesar Madagascar Transported convict *
3 Sojourner Truth Baumfree USA Abolitionist and women's rights activist *
2 Gavrilo Princip Принцип Bosnia & Herzegovina Assassin who triggered World War I * *
2 Jan Hus Hus Czechia Reformer. * 1500
2 Frances Clayton Clalin USA Woman who fought in the Civil War *
2 Mary Fields Fields USA First African-American woman employed as a mail carrier in the United States * *
1 Ferdinand Magellan Magellan Portugal Explorer * 1500
1 Peter Easton Easton Pirate * 1700
367Efkleidis Kourtidis Kourtidis Ottoman Empire Resistance Fighter *
185 Whitney M. Young Jr. Young USA Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient
123 Denise McNair McNair USA Victim of the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing Found connected 2025-01-12.
87 Simeon Morrill Morrill USA, Canada Mayor of London, Ontario
60 Kakuma Yasumasa Kakuma Japan Politician *
57 Uda Shintaro 宇田 Japan Inventor
54 Zhang Zuolin Zhang China Warlord *
20 Luis R. Esteves Esteves USA WW II general Karen Tobo
18 Cilla Black White England Singer, actress, television presenter and author
16 Claude McKay McKay Jamaica Writer, poet, and seminal figure in the Harlem Renaissance *
16 Elijah Muhammad Poole USA One of the founders of the Nation of Islam Found connected 2025-01-12.
15 Elsa Gress Gress Denmark Essayist, novelist and dramatist
15 Theodor Lessing Lessing Germany Philosopher Found connected 2025-01-12.
15 Alberto Alfonso Schomburg Schomburg USA Historian, activist & writer of the Harlem Renaissance movement *
14 Martin R. Delany Delany USA, Canada Abolitionist, journalist, physician, soldier and writer
13 August Horch Horch Germany Founder of one of the companies which merged into Audi *
13 Carlo Collodi Lorenzini Italy Children's author
12 József Dobos Dobos Hungary Inventor of the Dobos torte *
12 Enzo Ferrari Ferrari Italy Founder of Ferrari *
12 Daniel J. Boorstin Boorstin USA 12th Librarian of Congress
10 Jagadish Chandra Bose Bose Bangladesh Physicist, biologist, botanist and archaeologist *
10 Rosario Castellanos Figuerosa Mexico Poet, author, and feminist
10 Alexander Carmichael MacGilleMhìcheil Scotland Exciseman, folklorist, antiquarian, and author *
10 Daniel Hale Williams Williams USA Founder of the first non-segregated hospital in the United States *
9 Abdul Hussein Sadiq بن_إبراهيم Iraq Shiite scholar
9 Samuel Ajayi Crowther Crowther Nigeria First African Anglican bishop in Nigeria
9 Johan Edvard Tallaksen Tallaksen Norway Resistance member
9 Yuri Gagarin Гагарин Russia First human in space
8 Jefery Hudson Hudson England Court Dwarf 1700
8 Jean de Brébeuf de Brébeuf France Missionary to the Huron 1700 Found connected 2025-01-12.
8 Emiliano Zapata Zapata Salazar Mexico Revolutionary * *
8 Oliver Tambo Tambo South Africa President of the ANC
8 Matthew Henson Henson USA Arctic Explorer *
7 Frederick Montague Montague England First Baron Amwell *
7 Purnima Sinha Sen-Gupta India First Bengali woman to receive a Doctorate in Physics
7 Robert McVitie McVitie Scotland Founder of McVitie's
6 Evangelos Zappas Zappas Albania One of the founders of the modern Olympics.
6 Margarita Zhukova Жукова Belarus Educator and scientist
6 Andrew Miller Miller Canada, USA Publisher *
6 Alexander Welch Welch Canada Manitoba Politician *
6 Emma Martina Luigia Morano Morano Italy Supercentenarian * *
5 Helen Aberson-Mayer Aberson USA children's book author
6 Amiri Baraka Jones USA Actor, teacher, director, producer, writer, activist, and poet
6 Adam David Miller Miller USA Poet, writer, publisher, and radio programmer and producer
6 Ernest Willows Willows Wales Aviator *
6 John West West USA Lynching victim
5 Mother Teresa Bojaxhiu Albania Founder of the Missionaries of Charity *
5 Chief Crowfoot Crowfoot Canada Chief
5 Rudolf Kříženecký Kříženecký Czechia architect *
5 John Harrison Harrison England Inventor of the marine chronometer 1700
5 Jeanne Mance Mance France Nurse 1700
5 Kalpana Chawla Chawla India NASA Astronaut
5 Sadako Sasaki Sasaki Japan Hiroshima victim and origami Artist
5 Chinua Achebe Achebe Nigeria Author
5 Albert Sharpe Sharpe Northern Ireland Actor
5 Alexander Crummell Crummell USA Minister, academic, and African nationalist
5 Asa Philip Randolph Randolph USA Labor unionist, civil rights activist, and politician *
5 William Roth Roth USA Senator
4 James Welch Welch England Victoria Cross recipient * Found connected 2025-01-12.
4 Pierre Plantard Plantard France Perpetrator of the Priory of Sion hoax
4 Jiroemon Kimura 木村 Japan Supercentenarian *
4 Yamazaki Tomie Yamazaki Japan Beautician, war widow *
4 Willem Barentz Barentsz Netherlands Explorer 1700
4 Étienne Brûlé Brûlé France Explorer 1700
4 Samuel de Champlain Champlain France Explorer 1700
4 Vladimir Komarov Комаро́в Russia Cosmonaut
4 Georgiy Dobrovolsky Доброво́льский Ukraine Cosmonaut
4 Igor Sikorsky Sikorsky Ukraine Inventor of the helicopter *
4 John Henrik Clarke Clark USA Historian, professor, and pioneer in Africana studies
4 Allen Clayton West West USA Criminal
4 Joseph C. White White USA Politician
4 Richard Wright Wright USA Author
3 Epanow Wampanoag Native America Kidnapped Native American who escaped 1700
3 Eleanor Abbott Abbott Canada, USA Candy Land board game
3 Joseph White White Canada Pilot and Distinguished Flying Cross recipient Found connected 2025-01-12.
3 H.F. S. Morgan Morgan England Founder of Morgan Motor Company *
3 Zaha Hadid Hadid Iraq, Morocco Architect (Connects to the Moroccan Alouite Dynasty via marriage)
3 Asima Chatterjee Mookerjee India First woman to receive a Doctorate of Science from an Indian university
3 Rabindranath Tagore Tagore India Poet, writer, playwright, composer, philosopher, social reformer and painter * *
3 Marcus Garvey Garvey Jamaica Founder of the Universal Negro Improvement Association *
3 Erasmus Roterodamus Netherlands Scholar 1500
3 Chung Ju-yung Chung South Korea Founder of Hyundai
3 Alain LeRoy Locke Locke USA Writer, philosopher, educator, and patron of the arts *
2 Domingo French French Argentina Revolutionary
2 Bob Welch Welch Canada Ontario Politician
2 Else Holmelund Minarik Holmelund Denmark Author
2 John Day Day England Printer 1700
2 Charles Fenwick Fenwick England Member of Parliament *
2 Utako Okamoto Okamoto Japan Doctor and medical researcher
2 Nadezhda Popova Popova Ukraine Pilot
2 Phillis Wheatley Wheatley USA First published female African-American poet
1 Fernando Caldeiro Caldeiro Argentina Astronaut
1 Reinhard Furrer Furrer Austria Physicist and astronaut
1 Fazlur Rahman Khan Khan Bangladesh Architect
1 Sarah Ann Gill Gill Barbados Religious liberty pioneer
1 Константин Иванович Сокольский Сокольский Belarus Admiral
1 Augusto Fragoso Fragoso Brazil Writer, soldier and politician *
1 Luiz Gonzaga do Nascimento do Nascimento Brazil Singer
1 Ernest Henry Nickel Nickel Canada Mineralogist
1 Li Ching-Yuen Li China Super Centenarian *
1 Qian Xuesen China Aerodynamicist, cyberneticist and politician
1 William Crawford Crawford England Member of Parliament
1 George Davenport Davenport England "The Leicester Highwayman"
1 Christopher French French England High Court Judge
1 Donald Guthrie Guthrie England New Testament Scholar
1 John Phillips Phillips England Pirate
1 John Smyth Smyth England Founder of the Baptists 1700
1 Denton Welch Welch England Writer and painter
1 Andrew White White England Jesuit missionary 1700
1 Goswin Nickel Nickel Germany (Holy Roman Empire) Superior-General of the Society of Jesus 1700
1 Heinrich Nickel Nickel Germany General
1 Augustus Barry Barry Ireland Medal of Honor recipient
1 Anthony C. West West Ireland Author
1 James White White Ireland Politician
1 Italo Svevo Schmitz Italy Writer *
1 Win Tin Tin Myanmar Newspaper editor
1 Po'pay Ohlay Owingeh Ohlay Owingeh New Spain Native American leader 1700
1 Anthony Anenih Anenih Nigeria Politician
1 Adamu Ciroma Ciroma Nigeria Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria
1 James White White Northern Ireland Author
1 Ahmad Bashir بشیر Pakistan Writer, journalist, film director
1 Irene Lieblich Lieblich Poland Artist and Holocaust survivor
1 Valery Kubasov Kubasov Russia Cosmonaut
1 Fazlur Rahman Khan Khan Saudi Arabia Architect
1 James Henderson Waddell Waddell Scotland Civil servant
1 Laurence A. Waddell Waddell Scotland Explorer, professor, surgeon, collector, and amateur archaeologist *
1 Arthur McDonald McDonald South Africa Air Force officer
1 Alonso Álvarez Pineda Pineda Spain Conquistador and cartographer * 1500
1 Henriette Feller Odin Switzerland Baptist missionary to Québec
1 Liudmyla Pavlychenko Павличенко Ukraine Sniper
1 Crispus Attucks Attucks USA Victim of the Boston Massacre
1 Daniel French French USA Inventor
1 James B. French French USA Member of the Wisconsin State Assembly *
1 Edna Guy Guy USA Dancer
1 Prince Hall Hall USA Abolitionist and Freemason
1 Amos Miller Miller USA Lynching victim
1 Benjamin Singleton Singleton USA Escaped slave, abolitionist, and businessman *
1 Dewi Phillips Phillips Wales Philosopher
1 Patrick Fani Chakaipa Chakaipa Zimbabwe Archbishop of Harare
1 Buzwani Donald Mothobi Mothobi Zimbabwe Academic, civil servant, and diplomat

Resources

Other Unconnected Notables

These links are to other sources of unconnected notables. Some of these lists are specifically for unconnected profiles, and some of them are lists of notables, some of whom are connected and some of whom are not.

Free Space Profiles

WikiTree+ Reports

Data Doctors Suggestions

Notables Project: Notables Profiles in need of Improvement

Collaboration on Unconnected Notables

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Greg Slade
This time, I found seven connected notables, and I lost count of how many I got to move up in the table because they have linked profiles. Thanks to all of you who have been improving the tree in this way.

posted by Greg Slade

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Greg Slade
I've noticed that some of the unconnected notables have had extra countries added. But please remember that "The 'Country' cell includes any country where somebody from that branch was born." So even if somebody is born in one country, but then moves to another country where they then become notable, we only add that other country is somebody in that notable's family was born there, like a spouse or child. (That column is designed to tell people where to look for birth records.) Now, if you add a profile for a spouse or child, or for any ancestors of that notable who were born in a different country than the notable was, that's when you should add another country to that cell. Clear as mud?

posted by Greg Slade

Waddell-2996 and Kinsella-59 have been connected
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Greg Slade
Thank you, Kandita. That's wonderful.

posted by Greg Slade

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Greg Slade
This time around checking this list, I found three newly-connected profiles, and found linked relatives for four notables who had been stuck at the bottom of the list with a branch size of one. I also moved a bunch of profiles out of this list to https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Unconnected_World_Leaders and the new https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Unconnected_Archivists and https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Unconnected_Nobel_Laureates pages.

posted by Greg Slade

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Greg Slade
I'm working through the page, marking people as connected if they're connected, and changing the branch size where more family members have been added. I'm excited at how many profiles that used to be unlinked now have family members linked. The section with a branch size of "1" is still the largest, but we're making progress. Thank you!

posted by Greg Slade

I think Geronimo is connected, if I understand connections correctly. His wives and some of their spouses have profiles. I'm trying to remember or find the name of his grand daughter or great grand daughter who spoke at a Native conference I attended in New York State in the '90s to work back from her as well.

posted by Lorraine O'Dell M.L.S.

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Greg Slade
There's a difference between being linked to other profiles and connected to the main tree. If you look at https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Hansberry-31 and scroll down to the bottom of that page, you'll see a block of text that starts with "Lorraine is 37 degrees from Queen Elizabeth II Windsor, 42 degrees from Tony Blair,..." Any profile that has that block of text near the bottom is "connected". Any profile that doesn't is not "connected". It may be "linked", but the term "connected" only applies if there is a connection to the "main tree" which has millions of profiles all connected to one another. The next-largest branch has a little over 3,000 profiles. That's a lot of profiles, but it's not the same as being connected to the main tree.

posted by Greg Slade

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Nikki (Stegall) Davis
I added/connected Oscar Wilde’s only grandson to his profile. Oscar Wilde is not connected to the “big” tree yet, but I am working on that.

posted by Nikki (Stegall) Davis

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Greg Slade
Oscar Wilde shows as connected now.

posted by Greg Slade

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Axel Svensson
Should not Salvador Dalí be possible to connect via his wife Дьяконова-1 to Heiroth-1? Heiroth-1 brother might have been Alexander Alexandrovich Heiroth 1851-1902. His son might be Alexander Alexandrovich von Heiroth and his wife Lidia Heiroth (Diakonova) might be sister to Дьяконова-1.

posted by Axel Svensson
edited by Axel Svensson

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Greg Slade
Ah. We don't go on "might be" here. We look for sources so we can say "is".

posted by Greg Slade

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Axel Svensson
Ofcourse, it's the reason I wrote "might have" instead of "would"! It's just hints for anyone with knowledge in Russian sources (St Petersburg to start with for Alexander Alexandrovich Heiroth). I have no clue about these source and will not add any profile outside Sweden. It's possible three new profiles that needs to be added to connect over 600 other profiles.

posted by Axel Svensson

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Greg Slade
Ah. Okay, I misunderstood your meaning. But yes, I would love to find somebody who can handle Russian sources. Among other people, not a single cosmonaut is connected to the main tree yet.

posted by Greg Slade

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Axel Svensson
I have connected Boberg-57 to the big tree, he is not unconnected anymore.

posted by Axel Svensson

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Greg Slade
THANK YOU! I've been waiting for so long to see him connected!

posted by Greg Slade

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Axel Svensson
It took some time but the connections was much closer to me than I thought. Our tenant's great grandfather's brother was married to Carl's daughter. I did later found a connection to our tenant's ancestors even if I had to add another 10+ profiles to connect the trees.

PS. Sweden needs another unconnected nobel in the list now! :)

posted by Axel Svensson
edited by Axel Svensson

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Greg Slade
I've added Signe Bergman to the list.

posted by Greg Slade

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Axel Svensson
Thanks! Another mountain (berg) to reach!

posted by Axel Svensson

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Axel Svensson
Connected her to the global tree. One more unconnected nobel Swede needed.

posted by Axel Svensson

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Greg Slade
I have added Claes Pontus Arnoldson.

posted by Greg Slade

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Axel Svensson
I have connected him to the global tree.

posted by Axel Svensson

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Greg Slade
Okay, then. I've added four prime ministers. But please don't ignore Åke Kromnow. Archivists do seem to be harder to source, but their work is so essential to our work that I would like to honour them.

posted by Greg Slade

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Kylie Fowler
NZ archivist Judith Sidney Hornabrook now connected - possibly show tomorrow. Walter Nash looks to be also.

posted by Kylie Fowler

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Greg Slade
Thank you for connecting Judith Hornabrook, Kylie! I root for archivists to be identified, sourced, and connected, but I have found them to be hard to do! Good job!

Oh, and my bad on Walter Nash. I knew from the Quest for Great-Grandparents: Kiwi Edition challenge that he'd been connected, but I forgot to check for him on this page!

posted by Greg Slade
edited by Greg Slade

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Kylie Fowler
All the NZ ones are now connected and will show tomorrow probably, except Jonah Lomu. I have never managed that one.

I've managed to work out the table editing and have added that they are connected.

posted by Kylie Fowler

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Greg Slade
Kylie, WikiTree+ still lists 122 unconnected Kiwi notables. I use the "Unconnected Notables" link near the bottom of the page, and then edit the URL in the address bar to specify a country. Thus, https://wikitree.sdms.si/function/WTWebProfileSearch/Profiles.htm?Query=unconnected+notables+new+zealand is the list of unconnected notables who have some connection to New Zealand. You seem to be able to connect them pretty much as quickly as I add them to the page, so maybe it would be more efficient for you just to work through the report, and then we can add anybody who you can't connect to this page. What do you think?

posted by Greg Slade

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Kylie Fowler
Yep, I'll have a go. I get a bit lost in the Wiki+ reports but with instructions I should be fine! Cheers!

posted by Kylie Fowler

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Kylie Fowler
The list is officially at 117 now but there are, at least, ten more to come off when refreshed. Ryan-3199 and Jackson-11420 should definitely go on your list though. I've done what I can on NZ part of Bill Jackson and still haven't found a connection and Frank Ryan is a 1930's birth with no parents. I won't be able to do any of the Maori names on the last page either, I doubt.

posted by Kylie Fowler

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Greg Slade
I've added Ryan-3199, but you don't need to worry about Jackson-11420. He's not a notable. (I know his profile has the sticker, but there's no Wikipedia entry for him.)

posted by Greg Slade

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Kylie Fowler
But he is Peter Jackson's father;-)

posted by Kylie Fowler