Help us find and improve next week's Connection Finder profiles: It's All Relative

Question

For the kickoff of our year-long WikiTree Challenge next week we'll be featuring our first guest star, AJ Jacobs, author of It's All Relative and the organizer of the Global Family Reunion, in the Connection Finder.

We're looking for profiles of some of the folks he talks about in his book to feature alongside him. Here are a few of the people he talked about the most to get started on:

• President George H. W. Bush
• Albert Einstein
• Martin Luther King, Jr.

Can you help with these profiles, or expand their families? Adding relatives in any direction helps with connections. Every missing relative you add will make our connections to them closer.

Who else should we feature? He mentions a lot of people throughout the book. Do they need a profile?

All profiles we feature need a good biography and a connection to the big tree. We also want each one to have an image, and the image needs to have proper source attribution explaining why it's in the public domain or why we have the right to display it.

We can't feature everyone mentioned (we only have room for eight per week), but if we don't feature a profile you work on, we may use it sometime in the future. And, of course, all contributions help improve our shared tree.

We'll make a final decision on which ones to feature early next week.

Please reply here with what you're working on so that we don't duplicate our efforts. Thank you!

To help us plan future themes, see the 2021 Example Profile Plans post here.

Comments

Jackson Pollock, an abstract expressionist painter who is mentioned by Jacobs in the book, has a picture but needs a biography and is unconnected as of yet.

Jeffrey Dahmer, a convicted serial killer, is also mentioned in the book. He has a picture, a short bio, and is connected.

Albert Einstein was already featured as an EPOW, as was Martin Luther King Jr. and George H. W. Bush. They can still be in the connection finder.

Alex Haley, the author of the 1976 novel Roots: The Saga of an American Family, is mentioned in the book as well. He is already connected with a biography and a picture.

Also mentioned is Thomas Jefferson, the third President of the United States. He does have a biography, a picture, and a connection, even though he is not an EPOW as of yet.

Brigham Young, the leader of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints who was the namesake of Brigham Young University (BYU), is mentioned by Jacobs through Jeopardy! champion Ken Jennings' trivia question as a great-great-great-grandfather of Steve Young, an NFL quarterback for the San Francisco 49ers who also played college football for BYU. Brigham Young was already an EPOW. Steve Young and Ken Jennings are still living.

Mary, Queen of Scots, was not mentioned in the book. However, she was mentioned in a TED talk Jacobs gave in March 2014 in Whistler, British Columbia. She is already connected with a picture and a biography. This profile is not an EPOW yet.

There may be other people mentioned in the book or his TED talk, like Karl Marx as well as other European aristocrats besides Mary, Queen of Scots. Several are still living. Of course, Marx is already connected to the main tree, has a biography, and has a picture. I cannot find any references to Marx in Jacobs' book.