User:MichaelCarl

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I'm a 22-year-old college student at Bradley University, soon to be a grad student at AUC. I grew up back and forth between Peoria, Illinois and the Twin Cities area in Minnesota (where I attended Shattuck-St. Mary's School and have also lived in Rennes, France (where I studied abroad for an academic year at Université Rennes 2) and Paris (where I interned at the US Embassy).

My interests include traveling, French, Christian existentialism, peace studies, genealogy, photography, religion, philosphy, Rotary International, and too many other things to bore you with here.

Along the lines of genealogy, I'll include some of my relatives who've been illustrious enough or infamous enough to make it onto Wikipedia (or whose pages I've added to Wikipedia):

• Michael Collins, my First Cousin Four Times Removed, Irish revolutionary leader
• Charles E. Bowles, my Second Cousin Thrice Removed, Mayor of Detroit
• Charles S. Deneen, my Second Cousin Thrice Removed, Governor of Illinois & US Senator
• Mary Banotti, my Third Cousin Twice Removed, European Parliament representative
• Niels Hansen, my Fifth Cousin Once Removed, German Ambassador to Israel & Author
• Johann Hofer, my First Cousin Five Times Removed, German revolutionary
• Nora Owen, my Third Cousin Twice Removed, Justice Minister of Ireland
• Howard Zehr, my Fourth Cousin Twice Removed, Professor & Author in the field of Restorative Justice
• Carl Zehr, a distant cousin, Mayor of Kitchener, Ontario

And, just because, the purported ancestor of my great-great-great-great-great-great-grandfather, John B. Gritman:

• Jan Janszoon, my supposed 12th great-grandfather, a Dutch pirate

Other miscellaneous family history-related links:

• Budd Lake in Michigan, named for my relatives