Mary Cummins Genealogy

02/07/2026

This woman is crying because she realized she's related to two presidents. If you have one European ancestor, you are related to ALL of the presidents. Maybe we should all do a group cry ;-) It's just a matter of figuring out the route. I figured out the route from me to all of the presidents. So have all my genealogy buff friends. If you have one Euro ancestor, you're at least a 15th cousin to every other person with one Euro ancestor in the US.

Haines discussed her episode of "Finding Your Roots" live on "The View," where host Henry Louis Gates Jr. informed her of her past.

10/21/2025

My genealogy research cited in article about Ivana Trump in the Inquisitr. "Ivana "married" Austrian Alfred Winklmayr just so she could get out of communist Czechoslovakia. Marriage was not consummated and was dissolved but mission accomplished. She moved to Canada then US then married Trump and became citizen 1988."

Ivana Trump got married four times, but none of her marriages were solid. Her life, as we know, was filled with one tragedy after another.

09/18/2025

Kitzia Mitre stated in the television series "Made in Mexico" that she's a descendant of Montezuma. Some said she wasn't. She actually is. So are most Mexicans because Montezuma's daughter "married" had children with a Spaniard. I know because she's my cousin and she's in my family tree. Link to article in first comment. Her family tree and genealogical link to Montezuma is in the article.

07/29/2025

Philanthropist and animal lover Wallis Annenberg passed away this morning. She is survived by her four children and five grandchildren. I did her family tree and the tree of her father many years ago for Geneastar. Link to that tree in first comment per FB algo. Wallis Huberta Annenberg 1939-2025.

05/18/2025

I did Malcolm X's tree for Geneastar many years ago. His 100th birthday is May 19, 1925. Link to the tree first comment.

04/07/2025

Henry Louis Gates is doing a show on his own family history on "Finding Your Roots." I did his tree and that of his wife Sharon Adams ten years ago but wrote an article about it five years ago. Link to article in first comment.

02/23/2025

Family tree of George Crenshaw. George Lafayette Crenshaw was an American real estate developer and banker who helped develop several upscale residential developments in mid-city Los Angeles and Southern Los Angeles neighborhoods in the early 1900s including Lafayette Square and Wellington Square. He was the owner of C.H. Brown Banking Company in Missouri and the Crenshaw Security Company in Los Angeles, California. The Crenshaw district of Los Angeles and its principal thoroughfare, Crenshaw Boulevard and Destination Crenshaw bear his name. Link in first comment per FB algo.

12/11/2024

Family tree of Luigi Nicholas Mangione. His ancestors are all from Italy going back five generations so far. They've lived in Maryland for four generations.

12/07/2024

This has recently been in the news. Ariana Grande is not Hispanic. She is 100% Italian going back at least five generations to Italy. Link to her family tree is first comment per FB algo.

08/25/2024

at Hollywood Forever in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California by Mary Cummins. Amazing gravestone of Mike Szymanski.

Mary Cummins - Los Angeles, California. Ancestry, heritage, DNA, genealogy research about historical figures and celebrities.

08/22/2024

Ancestry sells your photos, documents, content for profits, money no matter what they say. Read the fine print. If you load it on their site in your private tree, they now own it and can keep and publicly sell it forever. Don't load your content to Ancestry.com! I explain how to build your family tree without giving your content to Ancestry. https://marycumminsmarycummins.blogspot.com/2024/08/ancestry-owns-your-content-photos.html

Mary Cummins - Los Angeles, California. Ancestry, heritage, DNA, genealogy research about historical figures and celebrities.

08/01/2024

Is Kamala Harris black? Yes. I did this family tree years ago for Geneastar.

Mary Cummins investigative reporter, journalist, news reporter in Los Angeles, California, USA.