notating these people before data is lost
not in good order as yet
my paternal lines
- 28 degrees from
Alexandre (Davy de la Pailleterie) Dumas père (1802 - 1870)Born in Villers-Cotterêts, Aisne, France
Died at age 68 in Neuville-lès-Dieppe, Seine-inférieure
The Count of Monte Cristo and The Three Musketeers
- 22 degrees from
Robert Lewis Balfour Stevenson (1850 - 1894)
- r Treasure_Island (1883), The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886), Kidnapped (1886), and his children's poem collection A Child's Garden of Verses (1885).
- 21 degrees from
Samuel Dashiell Hammett (1894 - 1961)
Died at age 66 in New York City, New York, United States (Red Harvest, The Dain Curse, The Maltese Falcon, The Glass Key, and The Thin Man) and more than eighty short stories.[1
24 degrees from
Anthony Tony Grove Hillerman (1925 - 2008)
- Born in Sacred Heart, Pottawatomie, Oklahoma, United StatesDied at age 83 in Albuquerque, Bernalillo, New Mexico, United States
- 25 degrees from
William Wilkie Collins (1824 - 1889)
Died at age 65 in London, England, United Kingdom English novelist, playwright, and author of short stories. Today he is best known for The Moonstone (1868), often regarded as the first true detective novel, and The Woman in White (1860), the archetypal sensation novel. During his lifetime, however, he wrote over thirty major books, well over a hundred articles, short stories and essays, and a dozen or more plays.[
- 28 degrees from Romare Bearden was an artist, composer, and writer, best known for his work as a collagist. He was a founding member of the Harlem-based artists group known as Spiral,
- 42 degrees from Josephine Baker was a world-famous rags-to-riches American-born French dancer, singer and actress and the first African-American woman to star in a major motion picture, Zouzou (1934). At the height of her fame, in 1939 she became a French military intelligence agent, collecting detailed intelligence on German troop movements and the locations and activities of airfields and harbors.
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walts paternal lines
- 30 degrees from Edith Ngaio Marsh DBE (1895 - 1982)Died at age 86 in Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand
- author of 32 detective novels published between 1934 and 1982, and from 1928 to 1932
25 degrees fromRaymond Thornton Chandler (1888 - 1959)
Died at age 70 in La Jolla, San Diego, California, USA- novelist and screenwriter.[2] In 1932, decided to become a detective fiction writer His first short story, "Blackmailers Don't Shoot", was published in 1933 in Black Mask, a popular pulp magazine.[2] His first novel, The Big Sleep, was published in 1939.[2] In addition to his short stories, Chandler published seven novels during his lifetime (an eighth in progress at his death was completed by Robert B. Parker). [2] All but Playback have been made into motion pictures, some several times.[2] In the year before he died, he was elected president of the Mystery Writers of America.[
- walts paternal line
- 22 degrees from Langston Hughes
- 22 degrees from Marian Anderson, renowned opera singer and civil rights activist, in 1955 became the first African-American singer to perform at the Metropolitan Opera.
- 22 degrees from Countée Cullen Countée Cullen was a prominent African-American poet, novelist, children's writer, and playwright.
- 23 degrees from Cabell (Cab) "Cab" Calloway III
- 23 degrees from Jean Toomer was an American poet and novelist associated with the Harlem Renaissance.[1]
- 28 degrees from Arna Bontemps[1] was a poet, novelist, editor, and author of children's books. He was a key figure in the Harlem Renaissance
- 36 degrees from Duke Ellington
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my paternal line 20 sept 2020
- 20 degrees from Horatio Nelson
- 21 degrees from Thomas Laycock
- 23 degrees from George Johnston
- 26 degrees from William Bligh
- 26 degrees from John Macarthur
- 26 degrees from D'Arcy Wentworth
- 27 degrees from Thomas Jamison
- walts paternal line
- 22 degrees from Fletcher Christian
- 27 degrees from Peter Heywood
