Background
Reitwiesner was born on 8 March 1954 in Havre de Grace, Maryland, the son of Homé Stephens (McAllister) and George Walter Reitwiesner. He grew up in Aberdeen, Maryland and Silver Spring.
(Many Americans have been aware that the Princess of Wales...)
Many Americans have been aware that the Princess of Wales had genealogical links to this country. Not only was she one-eighth American, but she also had ancestors who lived in six of the original thirteen colonies, near relatives throughout this country, several hundred distant kinsmen well known in American history, and probably between twenty and thirty million living distant American cousins, including most people named Strong, Hibbard, Newbold, Coggswell, Holton, Clapp, and Waldo, and many named Hart, Parke, Morgan, Stanton, Avery, Lyman, Hunt, Tuttle, Dennison, and Huntington. This work will make it possible for the reader to determine if he or she has any relationship with the Princess.
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Reitwiesner was born on 8 March 1954 in Havre de Grace, Maryland, the son of Homé Stephens (McAllister) and George Walter Reitwiesner. He grew up in Aberdeen, Maryland and Silver Spring.
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 (Congressional Research Service) 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 District of Columbia on November 12, 2010.
(Many Americans have been aware that the Princess of Wales...)