Just thru research I found an actual family connection.
This is a relative of mine documented in a book of my family
Which actually contains a family tree like dog pedigree papers. I claim no prior knowledge of this nor did I contribute in any way to bulldogs or the history. But this man is in the fifth gen of semmes in America in the book and I am in the 11th gen in the book.
Just a weird coincidence..,
This is the turn of the century...1908.
Traces these dogs to english origins. Dadgum they look like they could be progenitors of the ab. They are pitbulls
http://www.apbt.online-pedigrees.com/modules.php?name=Public&file=printPedigree&dog_id=80537http://www.apbt.online-pedigrees.com/modules.php?name=Public&file=printPedigree&dog_id=80542
