Celebrity Ancestry

Celebrity Ancestry

Researching your family history has never been easier. This week, Ancestry.com is announcing that its Web site has digitized complete Census information from 1790 to 1930, and a quick look at some famous Americans offers a glimpse of their family trees. Did Julia Roberts get her all-American smile from her great-grandfather John Bredemus -- a traveling oil salesman from Minnesota? Or was it from Eleanor Johnson, her Swedish great-grandmother?
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