Help us find and improve next week's Spouse Collector Featured Connections

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Many people throughout history seem to have enjoyed collecting, but some seem to have focused less on stamps and spoons and instead on spouses. We're looking at spouse collectors in the Connection Finder next week, those people who married many times, like Brigham Young, LDS leader, or Zsa Zsa Gabor, actress and singer.

Here's who we're getting started on:

Who else should we feature? We have room for 12 notables. We can't feature everyone who is nominated, but if we don't feature a profile you work on, we may use it sometime in the future. And, of course, all contributions help improve our shared tree.

Our choice of features will depend partly on the notable person's CC7, i.e. their connection count within seven degrees. The more connections they have, the more likely it is for all WikiTree members to find a close and interesting connection to them. So, if you nominate someone, please help grow their CC7.

Suggestions are more likely to be considered if you provide a link to the person on WikiTree, some information about who they were or why you're nominating them, and if their profile is in good condition with a connection, image, and well-written and well-sourced biography.

We'll make a final decision on which ones to feature early next week.

Please reply here with what you're working on so that we don't duplicate our efforts. Thank you!

Take note that this is not the place to discuss why you think we shouldn't feature someone if those reasons are due to politics, actions, or opinions of those being suggested. Mentioning things like their not being connected, their biography still needing work, erroneous information, etc. are all suitable for discussion here and an opportunity to correct those situations.

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Actress Elizabeth Taylor, married 8 times to 7 men. (Her CC7 is 2240, and there are profiles for each of her husbands already.)

by Erin Breen G2G6 Pilot (347k points)
Thanks, Erin!
+14 votes

How about the Prophet Joseph Smith Jr., Founder of Mormonism and the Latter Day Saint Movement. Published The Book of Mormon in 1830 at the age of 24. He allegedly had up to 40 wives, and consequently, an astronomical CC7 north of 155,000.

by Brian Quesnell G2G6 Mach 7 (71.4k points)
edited by Brian Quesnell
Thanks, Brian. It looks like he could use a few more wives added to WikiTree, if anyone has a chance.
+9 votes

Both these profiles have biographies and images:

  • Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette (1873–1954), France, writer, married three times, CC7 222 (not featured since January 2022)
  • Anaïs Nin (1903–1977), France/USA, writer, married two husbands at overlapping times, CC7 136.
by Jim Richardson G2G Astronaut (1.0m points)
Thanks, Jim.
+11 votes

Nicolas Cage - 5 wives - CC7= 1,040
Jennifer O'Neill - 9 marriages to 8 men. Can't find a profile.
Mickey Rooney - 8 wives - CC7 = 769
Lana Turner - 8 marriages to 7 men. CC7 = 2,022
Richard Pryor - 7 marriages to 5 women. CC7 = 373 

by Shonda Feather G2G6 Pilot (425k points)
Thanks, Shonda.
+10 votes

Supermodel - Christie Brinkley - 4 marriages.

Poet of the poem that became the song, "Home on the Range" - Dr. Brewster Higley - 5 marriages.

Dime novel writer who created the image of the Wild West - Ned Buntline - ~ 8 - 9 marriages.  See. The Many Wives of Ned Buntline

by Russell Butler G2G6 Pilot (148k points)
edited by Russell Butler

How could you leave out Canadian native Pamela Anderson with 5 marriages?? 

I didn’t realize this. Looked her up. 6 marriages, 5 husbands. She married Rick Salomon twice.
Thanks, Russell, Brian, and Donna.
+6 votes

Zsa Zsa Gabor's sister Magdolna Magda (Grün) Gabor (1915-1997) married six times according to Wikipedia, where we have only three husbands in the profile.

Same goes for actress Elisabeth (von Hortenau) del Puerto (1921-2014), who currently lacks all six husbands, has a very interesting Austrian father and passed away in Texas.

by Florian Straub G2G6 Pilot (201k points)
Thanks, Florian. It would be great if we could get those spouses created and attached.
+8 votes

How about Swedish actor Ernst Ingmar Bergman (1918-2007), who was married five times?

by Florian Straub G2G6 Pilot (201k points)
Good suggestion.

All five wives are in WikiTree, but none of their family trees are fleshed out.

Ingmar was fetured a while ago, but not all that recently.
Thanks, Florian and Eva.
+8 votes

American writer Norman Kingsley Mailer (1923-2007) was married six times and had nine children, the profile only mentions one wife, however.

by Florian Straub G2G6 Pilot (201k points)
Thanks, Florian.
+7 votes

Actress Margarita Carmen (Cansino) Hayworth (1918-1987) has 2649 connections and profiles for all husbands, but I believe she was in the Connection Finder not long ago?

by Florian Straub G2G6 Pilot (201k points)
Thanks, Florian.
+7 votes

Jerry Lee Lewis (1935-2022) was married seven wives, among them his secocnd cousin Myra Gale Brown, who should qualify for a public profile.

by Florian Straub G2G6 Pilot (201k points)
Thanks, Florian.
+7 votes

And then there is Virginia Cogswell, who was married nine (?) times in total, once to a guy, who also married five times. She also had an affair with Fritz Julius Kuhn. I didn't find any biographical data at first glance, but the story has potential, if somebody choses to pick it up:


https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-pittsburgh-press-miss-america-1925-t/31565370/

https://books.google.de/books?id=f0DxLi92ul8C&pg=PA167&lpg=PA167#v=onepage&q&f=false

https://www.newspapers.com/image/161142113/?clipping_id=11677835

by Florian Straub G2G6 Pilot (201k points)
Thanks, Florian.
+7 votes

Film producer Robert J (Shapera) Evans (1930-2019) was married seven times, five of the wives have their own Wikipedia article

by Florian Straub G2G6 Pilot (201k points)
Thanks, Florian.
+6 votes

Classic Mexican film star Maria Felix | 5 marriages | CC7 290

USBH civil rights attorney Walter Lear Gordon Jr. | 4 marriages | CC7 147

Both profiles list all spouses.

by Melissa Arjona G2G6 Mach 5 (58.1k points)
edited by Melissa Arjona
Thanks, Melissa.
+9 votes

Too bad they have to be notable or I'd nominate my great-grandmother (five husbands, seven marriages).

For notables, how about author Michael Crichton? He was married five times. 

He has a pretty limited number of connections right now, but I bet with a little work that could be expanded pretty quickly. It looks like his father's line has been in the US for about 150 years and in some easy to research places like Illinois, Nebraska, etc.

by Regan Conley G2G6 Mach 4 (49.6k points)
Thanks, Regan.
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For the Appalachian Project we suggest [[Pugh-641|Virginia Wynette (Pugh) Richie (1942-1998)]], Tammy Wynette was married 4 times.

Larry King, [[Zeiger-77|Lawrence Harvey (Zeiger) King (1933-2021)]], 8 marriages, 7 wives.

Musician Artie Shaw, [[Arshawsky-1|Arthur Jacob (Arshawsky) Shaw (1910-2004)]] 8 wives, 2 very famous ones.

Gregg Allman, [[Allman-285|Gregory LeNoir Allman (1947-2017)]], 7 wives including Cher.

One of my favorite Golden Age of Hollywood comedic actresses, Martha Raye, [[Reed-9583|Margaret Yvonne Teresa (Reed) Raye (1916-1994)]], married a famous makeup artist, a famous songwriter/orchestra leader and a famous actor along with 4 other gentlemen.

And probably the most well-known serial bridegroom,  Henry VIII, [[Tudor-4|Henry (Tudor) of England KG (1491-1547)]], divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survived.
by Donna Lancaster G2G6 Mach 9 (90.1k points)
Thanks, Donna.
+5 votes

The German 17th century theologian Abraham Calov was married 5 times. One of his wives is a sister-in-law of a descendent of Martin Luther, his daughter married a descendent of Lucas Cranach the Elder. Although many of his children died in infancy or at a young age, his cc7 is currently (when it counts the connection to his son-in-law) at least around 500.

by Jelena Eckstädt G2G Astronaut (1.5m points)
edited by Jelena Eckstädt
The biography in German is done.
Biography in English is done, the CC7 is now over 600.
Thanks, Jelena.

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