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.

Comments

[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.