my relatives in Wikipedia

[flea]

It's a little funny to me how many people I am related to have wikipedia entries.

There's my great-great grandfather, Marcus Wilson Acheson: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Wilson_Acheson

My great-grandfather's first cousin, Edward Goodrich Acheson: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Acheson (nephew of the above)

My great-grandmother's first cousin, Frances Parkinson Keyes: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances_Parkinson_Keyes

My grandmother Dod's first cousin, Adolf Augustus Berle, Jr. : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Berle

Nobody on my mother's side at all, as far as I can tell; I know a lot about her family history, but nobody seems to be Wikipedia-level.

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[veejane.livejournal.com]

Nobody on my mother's side at all, as far as I can tell

What! And we, with our sixth-cousin-once-removed-of-Emerson lineage!

(Trufax: maternal great-uncle explained this lineage to me on a visit 2-3 years ago, with great pride, as if I should be impressed. It's kind of charming and kind of pitiable and kind of obnoxious, that older generation's obsession with illustrious ancestors. Really, famous names of any kind.)

[casperflea.livejournal.com]

I was pretty surprised most of those people were in Wikipedia (I ran across almost all of then by accident, doing family name searches in Google while bored and waiting for something). Keyes was very famous in her day but largely forgotten now; Edward Acheson is probably the most enduringly famous, and even he's obscure.

It would be kind of cool if even the apple farmers from Nova Scotia and heads of the Charlottesville YMCA made Wikipedia, too, of course. I guess that's what ancestry.com is for.

[orthoepy.livejournal.com]

I have read almost everything Keyes ever wrote, including her highly entertaining biography, and been to her house in New Orleans.

I may be an outlier. :-)

[casperflea.livejournal.com]

Yes, you are.

For your next trick, you need to read Adolf Berle's important work on corporate governance.

[serenada.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty sure I just have the one: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diane_Abbott. My dad makes it into the Jamaican Who's Who (which is creepy, because they refer tangentially to us), but that's as much as he rates.

[hecubot.livejournal.com]

I tried to look up my family name on Wikipedia and only managed to turn up cites to a bajillion little bubblegum bands and other music stuff that related back to me. I usually enjoy googlebating but that was recursive and disappointing.