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Six Degrees of Separation

3/28/2013

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Genealogy often uncovers connections and links that give you shivers or déjà vu or are just amusing.  It’s kind of a personal “Six Degrees to Kevin Bacon”.

I am now researching my husband’s family lines – very different from mine. I've decided to split into two projects – his Dad’s lines first.  I've gone back over 20 generations on one line! 

Yesterday I found Thomas Digges in his direct line.  He happens to have a Wikipedia entry: 

  • Thomas Digges (c.1546 – 24 August 1595) was an English mathematician and astronomer. He was the first to expound the Copernican system in English but discarded the notion of a fixed shell of immoveable stars to postulate infinitely many stars at varying distances;[1] he was also first to postulate the "dark night sky paradox".[2] 

He was a student of John Dee (pictured above) – who has recently been featured in several historical fiction novels – including one I’m reading right now by Karen Harper called The Fyre Mirror!  Dee was an adviser on many things to Queen Elizabeth I, and often reported to her what he found in other parts of the world – including political things.  When sending secret messages to her he used a symbol of two circles with a bar over them, extending down the right side, signifying for her eyes only.  Dee came to be known among the close royal advisers as… 007!

And, of course, eventually that code-name was used by author Ian Fleming for his famous spy character, James Bond, classically played by Sean Connery, for whom my own Dad has an extraordinary resemblance!


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Damon Floyd

2/6/2013

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Over a decade ago my research into my husband's Bragg family tree was helped along by several distant cousins through email.  One of those people, Damon Floyd, put his findings on website for all of us to refer to when we got stuck.  About 2002 the website went down and we all felt the loss but could not contact Damon to find out what happened.  Further research found a copy of his obituary.  RIP Damon!

The other day I was sifting through old emails for any new clues I might have missed and realized that I could indeed find that old site - on the Wayback Machine in the Internet Archives!  This is a great, often overlooked resource.  I grabbed the information on the Bragg pages and I will put them on my site - with credit to Damon, of course.  I hope this helps more Bragg researchers.

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