I bought a copy of Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Uncle Tom's Cabin" a while back and finally picked it up the other day. I opened it up to the biography section in the book and discovered that Harriet Beecher Stowe's mother was named Roxana Foote. As Foote is not an excessively common surname and most Footes descend from Nathaniel Foote (1593-1644), I decided to find out if we were related. After an hour or so of research, I discovered that Harriet Beecher Stowe does indeed descend from Nathaniel Foote, and we are 6th cousins 5 times removed. It's not a close relation, but, hey, I'm going to claim it!
