Ia anyone closer than 17 degrees from Julia Ward Howe?

Question

I'm 17 steps from Julia through my van Skyver relavtives.In terms of  blood relatives, Julia and I are 13th cousins, 6 tmes removed as weare both descended from John Damvers.

Comments

18 degrees, 14th cousins, 5x removed

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6th cousin 5x

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Thanks for the star!

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17 cousins 5 times removed

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16 degrees

Answer 1

fifth cousin three times removed

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That's pretty close!

Answer 2

7th cousins four times removed on my fathers side.  

Julia Howe is 16 Degrees from Stu Ward on my mothers side. Unrelated through Wards.

Answer 3

16th cousins, 4 times removed.

Answer 4

17 Degrees, coincidentally through the Baber family, same as my connection to Don Howard, but a different Baber. No kinship relation, though.

Answer 5

My husband is 19 degrees from Julia Ward - which makes me 20 degrees.

Answer 6

17 degrees, and 12th cousins 3 times removed

Answer 7

Julia and I are 18 degrees and her connection to my family lines is via my mother's great-aunt Nancy (McClendon-847) Baber Brown (married twice)

Answer 8

17 degree and 15th cousin 5 times removed.

Answer 9

I am 16 degrees from Julia Howe. We are also 5th Cousins 5x Removed. I was expecting to connect through her husband since I am a Howe descendant, but he's not from my Howe line! The connection is courtesy of the Curtis family.

Answer 10

16 degrees:  6th cousins, 3 times removed.  

Her 5th g-grandfather is my 8th g-grandfather.

Answer 11

5th Cousins, 6x Removed.. almost as close as Chris Hoyt! :)

Answer 12

I’m a 12 degree separation. Third cousins fives times removed via Flagg family of South Carolina.

Answer 13

14 degrees.   I am also sixth cousin, 4 X removed.

Answer 14

Yep, 16 degrees. 12th cousin 5Xs removed, with one less than confident link (uncertain) among them, on her end.

Answer 15

15 Degrees - the connection is a mouthful - 1st cousin once rmoved of wife of brother-in-law of wife of 5th great uncle.

Most of my American connections are along the same line - John Boog and Isabella Kelly-King.

I am in South Australia.

Answer 16

Julia Howe is 18 Degrees from Sandra Vines

Answer 17

Carol Baldwin is 15 degrees from Julia (Ward) Howe.

We are 5th cousins 4x removed through common ancestor Lt. Thomas Burnham-34.

Answer 18

Just 15 steps for me, through her mother.

We are blood relatives, but the relationship is pretty distant: 9th cousins 5x removed.

Answer 19

I am 16 degrees, through her ancestral Gorton siblings.

Answer 20

16 Degrees, 16th cousins three times removed