Glenn Close wins SAG best actress award
Congratulations to Glenn Close for picking up the best actress award at today's Screen Actors Guild ceremony for her role in The Wife. Glenn is descended from the Fairfield, Connecticut line of CLOSEs, her 9th great-grandfather being Goodman John CLOSE, born about 1600, who emigrated from Swaledale, Yorkshire around 1640. I like to regard her as a VERY distant cousin, since I also have Swaledale ancestry:my 3rd great-grandfather James CLOSE (born about 1754) originated from there. Although I haven't been able to establish a direct line to a common ancestor, through the wonders of Y-DNA testing it has been established that at least two male descendants of Goodman John CLOSE from different branches in the USA are a close (geddit?) match with two male descendants of 'my' James CLOSE, also from different branches. There's a common CLOSE ancestor back there somewhere - but will we ever find him?