Did The DNA Test Spring Of 2021, In June That Year Received An Alert From Ancestry.com That My DNA Matches Descendants Of Southern Plantation Owner J. H. Adams, It Also Stated J H. Is My 5th Great-grandfather. The Alert Suggested I Refer To The Family Tree Of Another Member, Whom I Won't Name. By Referring To That Tree I Was Able To Trace My Paternal Line To Sir John Robert Adams VIII (11th Great-grandfather) Of Somerset, England Born 1502. While Searching On Line For Descendants Of Former President John Adams, I Came Across The Bio Of His First Ancestor To Reach The New Colony, Henry Adams Of Braintree, MA. The Bio Mentioned Henry Was Also From Somerset, England. In Tracing Henry's Ancestry I Was Surprised To Find That He And The Former Adams Presidents Are Also Descendants Of John Robert Adams. According To Ancestry The Presidents And I Are 6th And 7th Cousins Respectively. Since This Discovery My Family Tree Has Grown To Over 40,000 Paternal Relatives. I Back Up To John Robert VIII, His Wife, Margery Squire, My 11th GGM, Is The Daughter Of Princess Marguerite Capet Bourbon, Who Is The Daughter Of Louis II Capet Bourbon, King Of France, Born 1465, Died 1500. I Can't Give Much Info Here On The King, However, I Can Share That He Is A Descendant Of The Other King Louis' From Robert I Of France To Louis IX. I Believe Louis IX Is Louis The Saint, For Whom St. Louis, MO Is Named.
I Can Share A Lot More Info/Stories Re: Adams Ancestry/Descendants And Other Relatives From England And The U S.. FYI, I've Documented Over 1,000 Relatives Who Are Noted Throughout History To Our Current Era. I'm Willing To Wager U.S. That Most Of The Notables And Celebrities Are Well Known In The Civilized World. Some Are Adams Descendants, Most Are Not, But I Believe It Will Be Interesting And Fun To Learn Of These Individuals. So You Know I've Sorted The Notables Into About 22 Categories From Royalty To Sports And Miscellaneous.
Naturally It Would Not Be Nice To Not Give You A Sample.
Only One Royal Is An Adams Descendant That I Know Of, King Leka II Of Albania. Signer Of The Founding Documents, The Beer Guy, Samuel Adams; Actually His Father Was The Beer Maker. President, How About Calvin Coolidge, An Adams. First Lady, Dolly Payne Madison, My 8th Cousin. Vice President, Dick Cheney Is An Adams. Governor, Patrick Henry, Distant Relative. Military, George S Patton And Col. Robert Gould Shaw, Distant Cousins. Senator, Tammy Duckworth, An Adams. Vintage Entertainment, William Wellman And Katharine Hepburn; Adams Descendants. Current Entertainment, Raquel Welch And James Taylor; Adams Descendants. Education, Charles Tufts (Tufts U.) And Henry Lyman Morehouse (Morehouse College); Adams Descendants. Science, Margaret Mead, An Adams And Born In Phila..Art & Lit, Norman P. Rockwell; Cousin Thru Elizabeth Squire Rockwell, Also Daughter Of Princess Marguerite. Literature, John Steinbeck, An Adams. Astronauts, Sally Ride And Alan Shepard, Distant Cousins.Sports, Aaron Rodgers And Kevin Love, Adams Descendants; Michael Strahan, Distant Cousin. Business & Industry, J P. Morgan, An Adams & J A. Folger, Distant Cousin ( Ben Franklin's Mother Is Also A Folger). Finally Miscellaneous, Helen Adams Keller, Obviously An Adams Also Angela Davis, Distant Cousin.
That's Not 22 Categories, But I'm Using Just Memory.
Remember, There Are Hundreds More Relatives Stove Revealed.
So Keep Those Kards & Letters Coming In.
Thanks For Your Time.
Wm. G. Adams