Im related to George Washington!

It's pretty cool when you find out you have historically iconic relatives.

When our oldest son, now 25, was in 5th grade, thee class was assigned a heritage project where they had to do a report on the founding families of our state, Maryland. Wife took him to the library and asked the right librarian for help in finding books about Lord Baltimore and Princess Anne. She led them to a book titled "Maryland's First Families". It was something like the 5th edition. Reading thru it, I started recognizing last names that I had heard at my grandfather's house when I was a kid. That grabbed my attention. The book began with the English settlement at St Mary's in 1634, and ended in 1963 with the mention of my older brother's birth. Turns out I am a descendant of Lord Baltimore. Also added truth/fact to the family lore that my grandmother's side of Dad's family owned about half of St Mary's County and just about all of Calvert County up thru the late 1800's. No wonder she'd throw you out of the house if you mentioned her father, who apparently gambled all of it away as a drunkard, resulting in her being homeless as a child/teen.