Part of the fun of genealogy is discovering the famous people you're related to. Here is an ever-growing list of famous cousins in my family tree -- their names can be easily found in the surname index.

• John Lloyd Balderson -- Writer whose stage works provided the basis for the 1931 film Dracula and who co-adapted the 1931 film Frankenstein.
• John Bartram -- Royal Botanist for the Colonies -- married Ann Mendenhall.
• Daniel Boone -- Frontiersman & Diplomat -- descendent of Francis Yarnall.
• General Smedley D. Butler -- Recipient of two Congressional Medal of Honors.
• William Frederick "Wild Bill" Cody -- descendent of George Maris.
• Abraham Lincoln -- 16th President of US -- descendent of Sarah Edge & Thomas Bowater.
• George B. McClellen -- General-in-Chief USA -- Brinton descendent.
• Tim Minear -- Executive Story Editor for The X-Files TV series -- also worked as Executive Story Editor on Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman.
• Richard Milhous Nixon -- 37th President of US -- descendent of Thomas Mendenhall.
• Christopher Cadwallader Pennock -- Actor for 32 years, familiar to daytime soap opera viewers for his roles in General Hospital, Guiding Light, and Dark Shadows.
• Herbert Jeffris "Herb" Pennock -- Baseball Hall-of-Famer -- descendent of Christopher Pennock.
• Joshua Pusey -- Philadelphia Attorney who invented the first book of matches in 1892.
• Isaac Ridgeway Trimble -- Major General CSA wounded at the Battle of Gettysburg.
• Horatio Connell -- (1876-1936) one of the leading oratorio and concert artists in the British Isles in early 1900's. Click here for an MP3 sample of his work (Please note: this file was created from a very old LP and isn't the best quality. It should open in Windows Media Player).