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William Addams Reitwiesner (March 8, 1954 – November 12, 2010) was an American genealogist who traced the ancestry of United States political figures, European royalty and celebrities. ==Biography== Reitwiesner was born in Havre de Grace, Maryland on 8 March 1954 and grew up in Aberdeen, Maryland and Silver Spring. His grandfather was a board member of the National Genealogical Society and from the age of five, Reitwiesner would explore his grandfather's library. He was mostly of German and English descent, with some Scotch-Irish, Irish, French and Dutch descent and distant Frisian, Scottish, Swedish, Norwegian, Walloon and Italian ancestry. He was a great-great-grandnephew of Frank Stephens, uncle of Henry Stephens Eddy, great-great-great-grandnephew of Robert McAllister, uncle of James Andrew Banks, cousin of James Addams Beaver and William Thompson Walters, great-great-great-great-grandnephew of John Huy Addams and William Addams, six times great-grandnephew of Thomas Sumpter and Elizabeth Kortright, second cousin of William Penn and distantly related to many other famous and notable people. After graduating from Montgomery Blair High School in 1972, Reitwiesner joined the Library of Congress's Congressional Research Service (CRS) as a cart pusher. He spent the rest of his working life in menial jobs at the Library of Congress so that he could devote his time pursuing his interest in genealogy. Although much of his work was self-published on the internet, he acquired a reputation for meticulousness and accuracy〔 and many genealogists cited him in their publications. He died of cancer in Washington DC on November 12, 2010. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「William Addams Reitwiesner」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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