They're not heavy, they're my cousins
We looked the last couple of times at the fella, Samuel F.B. Morse, who's credited with the invention of the telegraph and how that leap in communication came about. We looked at Morse because he's listed as one of Sharon's ancestors in Family Search, although he's a distant cousin. I'm reading a book about another famous invention and the men behind it, and I wondered whether I could find a putative relationship with them as well. I won't mention the invention or the inventors here because they're not really the point of this post, but I found that Sharon is (probably) related to them in another one of those distant-cousin ways -- something like a seventh cousin four times removed. Over the months and years I've been delving into history through the gimmick of our family tree, I've managed to run across a number of distant relations who are either involved in significant events in American and British history or who are famous enough for most peopl