This week's focus is on Golden State notables. Per wikitree.com I am:

18 degrees from Marilyn Monroe
18 degrees from James Beckwourth
19 degrees from Leo Fender
18 degrees from Robert Frost
22 degrees from Bruce Lee
16 degrees from George Lucas
20 degrees from Louis Burt Mayer
19 degrees from John Muir
23 degrees from Olivia Newton-John
20 degrees from Jos  Pio de Jes s Pico Guti rrez
17 degrees from Leland Stanford
22 degrees from Levi Strauss

More about them:

Marilyn Monroe, actress, singer, and model who became one of the most enduring sex
symbols during Hollywood's Golden Age.

Leland Stanford, attorney, industrialist, philanthropist, and politician, as well as founder
and namesake of Stanford University.

James Beckwourth, credited with discovering a new route to central California during the
Gold Rush from present-day Reno, Nevada, called the Beckwourth Pass.

Leo Fender, inventor who founded Fender Electric Instrument Manufacturing Company,
or "Fender" for short. His guitars went on to be preferred instruments for many rock
musicians.

Robert Frost, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet known for his depictions of American life.

Bruce Lee, Hong Kong-American martial artist, actor, and founder of the martial art, Jeet
Kune Do.

George Lucas, film producer, director, and screenwriter, best known for the Star Wars
and Indiana Jones franchises.

Louis Meyer, co-founder of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) Motion Picture Studio.

John Muir, conservationist and naturalist.

Olivia Newton-John, British-born Australian singer, songwriter, actress, and activist who
lived most of her adult life in the United States. She's best known as "Sandy" from
Grease.

Pio Pico, political figure and businessman. He was the last Mexican governor of California
before the Mexican-American war transferred the territory to the United States.

Levi Strauss, founder of the Levi Strauss denim company that developed and produced
blue jeans, first intended as work-wear.

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I have some ancestors that were actors, architects, astronauts, Afro-American, authors, bank robbers, boxers, comedians, detectives, ghosts, holocaust survivors
Indian chiefs, pro hockey players, singers and musicians, painters, physicians,
politicians, poets, popes, writers, WW I heroes. I guess that I am a collection of
all of them, as we ALL are.

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