It's Cemeteries Week on WikiTree. Cemeteries are vital to our ancestor research, and
can also be fascinating. Some cemeteries in particular hold collections of notable and
notorious people. Per wikitree.com I am:

14 degrees from John Rockefeller
19 degrees from David Abercrombie
24 degrees from Georges Bizet
21 degrees from Mel Blanc
13 degrees from Jean Baptiste Charbonneau
21 degrees from Mary Cross
23 degrees from John Davies
21 degrees from Arthur Davis
20 degrees from Michael Faraday
17 degrees from Archibald Lampman
16 degrees from Marie Laveau
22 degrees from Isaac Newton

More about them:

John D. Rockefeller Jr., buried in Lake View Cemetery, Cleveland, Ohio. The son of
Standard Oil founder, John D. Rockefeller, John Jr. was an American financier and
philanthropist, and the father of US Vice President Nelson Rockefeller.

David Abercrombie, buried in Green Mount Cemetery, Baltimore, Maryland. Co-founded
the outdoor company, Abercrombie & Fitch.

Georges Bizet, buried in Pÿre Lachaise, Paris, France. Composer known for his operas,
Carmen and Les pecheurs de perles.

Mel Blanc, buried in the Hollywood Forever Cemetery, Hollywood, California. The "Man of
a Thousand Voices," who voiced the likes of Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky the Pig,
Tweety Bird, and more.

Jean Baptiste Charbonneau, buried in Jordan Valley Hamlet Cemetery in Oregon. The
son of Sacagawea and an American explorer, guide, fur trapper trader, military scout,
alcalde (mayor) of Mission San Luis Rey de Francia, and a gold prospector and hotel
operator in Northern California.

Mary Anne Cross, known better by her pen name, George Eliot. Buried in Highgate
Cemetery East, London, England. Known for her works Middlemarch and Silas Marner.

John Davies, buried in St. John's Burial Ground, New Town, Tasmania. An Australian
Convict, politician, and newspaper owner.

Arthur "Steele Rudd" Davis, buried in Toowong Cemetery (also known as Brisbane General Cemetery), Toowong, Queensland, Australia. Author of "On Our Selection,"
collections of short stories.

Michael Faraday, buried in Highgate Cemetery West, London, England. Known as the
"father of electricity," due to his discovery of electromagnetic induction in 1831, the
principle behind the electric transformer and generator.

Archibald Lampman, buried in Beechwood Cemetery, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. A poet
who wrote about his future abode in his poem, In Beechwood Cemetery.

Marie Laveau, buried in New Orleans' Saint Louis Cemetery No. 1. An herbalist, midwife,
and voodoo queen.

Sir Isaac Newton, buried in Westminster Abbey, London, England. Physicist best known
for his laws of motion and gravity.

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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.

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