Things to research more

• Ancestry of Jeremy Bentham
• Eric Borges
• Lilly Ledbetter
• Stacey Campfield
• Susan G Komen for the Cure and Planned Parenthood
• Ellen DeGeneres, family tree
• Val Kilmer, family tree
• Jake Gyllenhaal, family tree
• Ancestry of Richard Gere, actor (see GBR on Gere, and Mayflower History on Gere)
• Wayne McLaren, stunt man, Marlboro Man, employee of Pick Systems in Irvine in 1991, died 1992
• Ancestry of Henry Steele Olcott, author
• Ancestry of Lee Majors, actor
• Hyvees in Urbandale, IA fires Kyle Dowie, a mentally disabled man for stealing 20 cents. Everytime I read this story, it makes me amazed at how utterly monstrous companies can become, and *claim to justify* their actions in the face of public horror and outrage.
• Ancestry of Uma Thurman, actress she descends from English royalty through the Ligon gateway
• Jeff Ellis & Associates fires lifeguard after he saves the life of a drowning swimmer "not in our established beach area". Jeff Ellis & Associates, earns my award for one of the top ten worst companies for which to work. Due to the overwhelming horror of the reading public at the monstrosity of what this company did, their site has removed any way to contact Jeff Ellis.
• Carly Rae Jepsen
• Ancestry of Anderson Cooper
• Ancestry of Sally Ride, astronaut. See [1]
• Ancestry of Jessica Harper, actress
• Ancestry of Mary Wesley, author see [2]
• Ancestry of Mariel Hemingway
• [3] 12-year-old son of Audley and Judith Muschette, beaten by staff and tasered by West Hartford police at American School for the Deaf in West Hartford, Connecticut
• Tom Udall draw a graph showing exactly how all these congressmen are related
• Barbara Billingsley, the Billingsley family has several notable connections