More famous people in our family

I just picked up Stephen Colbert's (From Comedy Central's "The Colbert Report") book, "I am America (and so can you)" and started reading through the first few pages of the book, when I noticed down at the bottom of one of the pages, Stephen writes that he is 1/13th Chickasaw, which puts him in the same tribe that my wife descended from. The common ancestor that they probably share is James Logan Colbert, who was born in 1721 in South Carolina.

If you are a fan of Colbert's show, pick up his latest book. It is funny.

Here is Stephen's bio from Comedy Central:

Born and raised in South Carolina, Colbert began making a name for himself in Chicago as a member of the famed Second City improv troupe where he met Amy Sedaris and Paul Dinello. After several years at Second City, the threesome moved to New York City and, along with others, developed Exit 57, a half-hour sketch comedy series for HBO Downtown Productions which ran for two seasons during the mid-'90s on Comedy Central. Exit 57 received five CableACE nominations for best writing, performing and comedy series.
Colbert reunited with Sedaris and Dinello to create Comedy Central's first ever, live-action, narrative series, Strangers with Candy, a twisted take on the classic and typically moralistic afterschool specials. Colbert also starred opposite Will Ferrell and Nicole Kidman in Bewitched; wrote and was a cast member on The Dana Carvey Show; appeared in commercials for GM "Mr. Goodwrench;" wrote for Saturday Night Live and was the voice of Ace on the animated SNL series "The Ambiguously Gay Duo."

Since 1997, Stephen Colbert has been The Daily Show's longest-running and most diverse correspondent. In addition to his role as Senior Political Correspondent he was one of the hosts of "Even Stephven," a point-counterpoint assault featuring co-correspondent Steve Carell, and the host of "This Week in God," in which he reported on all things theological with the assistance of the "God Machine."

Stephen helped The Daily Show with Jon Stewart to win numerous Emmy and Peabody Awards, and contributed to America (The Book): A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction (Warner Books), which immediately topped The New York Times Best Seller List and stayed there for 15 consecutive weeks.

His personality, insight and overall rightness could only lead to The Colbert Report, a half-hour nightly platform for him to give his take on the issues of the day, and, more importantly, to tell you why everyone else's take is just plain wrong.

Census Records

Alot of the information I have found in my research comes from census records. The census records available online cover the years from 1790-1930. Each decade, a new one is released to the public.

I thought that some of you out there would like to see what one looks like, and the information that it contains on each member of the family.

For the purposes of this post, I will use the 1930 census. The image on here includes the Agrella family. My great Aunt Lucille DeMartini married Elmer Joseph Agrella. The Agrella family listed on this report is Elmer's family: his brothers and sisters as well as his parents.

The Agrella's are the 8th family down. To make it easier to read, you can right click on the photo to save it to your desk top, and then open it with whatever photo program you ahve on your computer.