It's Halloween Week so today's focus is on my relationship to Halloween monsters.
Per wikitree.com I am:

21 degrees from Mary Shelley
21 degrees from William Blatty
21 degrees from Daphne Browning
20 degrees from Lon Chaney
19 degrees from Rutger Hauer
24 degrees from Elsa Lanchester
21 degrees from Christopher Lee
24 degrees from Joan Lindsay
16 degrees from Howard Lovecraft
20 degrees from Bela Lugosi
19 degrees from Catherine O'Hara
18 degrees from Vincent Price

More about them:

Mary Shelley, author of Frankenstein, who happens to have a famous nuclear family (daughter of William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft, wife of Percy Bysshe Shelley).

William Blatty, author of The Exorcist.

Daphne du Maurier, author of thrillers like Rebecca and Jamaica Inn.

Lon Chaney, Sr., the Phantom in The Phantom of the Opera.

Rutger Hauer, Lothos, the vampire villain in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, among other horror roles.

Elsa Lanchester, who played the title role in The Bride of Frankenstein.

Christopher Lee, who played Dracula in several movies, as well as other thriller/horror roles.

Lady Joan Lindsay, author of Picnic at Hanging Rock.

HP Lovecraft, author of "weird" fiction like The Call of Cthulhu.

Bela Lugosi, who played several horror characters, including Dracula.

Catherine O'Hara, who voiced Sally in The Nightmare Before Christmas.

Vincent Price, known for his many contributions to the horror genre,
including the title role in The Invisible Man.

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I have some ancestors that were actors, architects, astronauts, Afro-American, authors, bank robbers, boxers, comedians, detectives, ghosts, holocaust survivors
Indian chiefs, pro hockey players, singers and musicians, painters, physicians,
politicians, poets, popes, writers, WW I heroes. I guess that I am a collection of
all of them, as we ALL are.

https://www.wikitree.com helps me gather this information with their weekly newsletters. It is totally free and very useful to genealogists.

If you would like to find your connections to famous people, you can start by giving me some basic information by going to:

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and click on the 'Request Form' link.

I have researched the ancestry for many persons interested in their family history,
and I would love to see how WE are related.

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