Flying High! Which Aviation Pioneer Are You Most Closely Connected To?

Question

This week's Example Profile of the Week is aviation pioneer Orville Wright, featured alongside him are these other aviation heroes:

• Amelia Earhart
• Louis Blériot
• Charles Rolls
• Billy Bishop
• Jim Mollison
• The Red Baron Manfred von Richthofen
• Nancy Bird
• Joseph Gomer

Who are you most closely connected to? If you're one of the 20,156,000 of us who are connected to each other on our big tree you can check with the Connection Finder.

You can also check for shared ancestors with the Relationship Finder. Are you a cousin to any of them?

Let us know below!

Comments

Melanie is 21 degrees from Orville Wright, 25 degrees from Amelia Earhart, 34 degrees from Louis Blériot, 23 degrees from Charles Rolls, 22 degrees from Billy Bishop, 39 degrees from Jim Mollison, 24 degrees from Manfred Freiherr von Richthofen, 16 degrees from Nancy-Bird Walton, 28 degrees from Joseph Gomer and 27 degrees from Azure Robinson

As almost always, the connection goes via my dad's line.

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Not a really a genealogy connection, but a brother of my direct ancestor Charles Calvin Zartman is said to have built the bicycle shop of the Wright Brothers in Dayton Ohio.  Relationship finder says I am a seventh cousin four-times removed from Orville Wright.

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Orville  Wright and Kathleen Foster (Rogan-205) are 6th cousins 6 times removed.  Samuel Wright Sr. 1606-1665 is Kathleen's 11th Great Grandfather. Amelia Earhart is my 8th cousin 3 times removed. (My Dad was an aircraft engineer for Canadian Air who passed on in 1999.)

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Billy Bishop almost certainly probably shares a Bishop ancestor of mine back in England, maybe. But the Wright brothers are definitely 5th cousins 5x removed.

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Amelia Earhart is my fouth cousin twice removed.

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Not a relative, but an early Canadian aviator that needs recognition is a family where every member distinguished himself in some way.

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Webster-11753

Answer 1

16 Degrees from Orville Wright and 17 Degrees from Amelia Earhart.

Answer 2

I'm 19 from Amelia Earhart and 21 from Orville Wright

Answer 3

I am 18 degrees from Amelia Earhart, 20 degrees from Orville Wright, and 21 degrees from Billy Bishop and Charles Rolls. The rest are over 30 degrees. Fun exercise!!

Answer 4

17 from Charles Rolls, 18 from Orville Wright, 19 from Amelia Earhart and 20 from Billy Bishop.

Answer 5

Thank you to Ales Trtnik for all of his work on updating the Connection Finder. I am connected to each one of the aviators profiled. I am only related to Orville Wright and Charles Rolls by blood. 

Answer 6

17 Degrees from Orville Wright (7th Cousin 4 times removed), 17 Degrees from Amelia Earhart (7th cousin 2 times removed) and 18 degrees from Azure Robinson (10th Cousin).

Answer 7

15 degrees from Orville, 16 from Amelia, 19 from Charles, Billy and Azure, 23 from Manfred and Joseph, 27 from Nancy, 30 from Louis, and 32 from Jim.

6th cousins 2x removed from Orville (through Stephen Presbury of Martha's Vineyard). 9th cousins 2x removed from Amelia (through Mayflower passenger Richard Warren).

Answer 8

The Aussie wins for me with

17 degrees from Nancy-Bird Walton

21 from both Orville Wright and Charles Rolls

22 from Amelia Earhart 

(and 23 from our member of the week Azure)

24 from Billy Bishop and Manfred Freiherr von Richthofen 

30 from Louis Bleriot and Joseph Gomer and 

way out to 37 from Jim Mollison 

 such a variety of degree paths too 

Answer 9

Here are my connections:

18 degrees from Amelia Earhart

22 degrees from Orville Wright

25 degrees from Billy Bishop

27 degrees from Manfred Freiherr von Richthofen

27 degrees from Charles Rolls

28 degrees from Joseph Gomer

32 degrees from Jim Mollison

32 degrees from Nancy-Bird Walton

37 degrees from Louis Blériot

Answer 10

Orville and Carol Lynn are 8th cousins three times removed

Orville Wright is 20 Degrees from Carol Lynn Napora

Amelia and Carol Lynn are 10th cousins three times removed

Amelia Earhart is 20 Degrees from Carol Lynn Napora

Answer 11

I'm 14 degrees from Amelia Earhart

Comments

Me, too!

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Me three!

Also, fifth cousins three times removed

Answer 12

17 degrees from Louis Blériot. I'm also 17 degrees from Azure and that's closer than connection anchors usually are. My next closer connection is Amelia Earhart at 21  degrees.

Answer 13

Orville and Wilbur Wright are my 7th cousins 2x removed. Our common ancestors are John Porter, born 21 Jun 1594 in Felsted, Essex, England, and died 22 Apr 1648 in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, Colonial America; and Sarah Hart, born 2 Jun 1624 in Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, Colonial America, and died 20 Nov 1697 in Kensington, Hartford, Connecticut, Colonial America. I descend through their daughter Ruth Porter (1664-1739) who married Samuel Smith (1664-1724).

Answer 14

Amelia Earhart 16 degrees  8th cousin 1x removed

Orville Wright 18 degrees 8th Cousin 2x removed

Charles Rolls 18 degrees 8th cousin 3x removed

The Red Baron is very 25 degrees 14th 5x removed

 Azure Robinson 19 degrees 9th cousin 1x removed

Answer 15

Had I been making up this list I would have included Amy Johnson-45860 who was the subject of the song “Amy, wonderful Amy,, how can you blame me for loving you.... “

Comments

She was on the long list Sir William, but we already had a Brit :-) We'll feature aviators again sometime, and we'll catch her that time!

Answer 16

Woo-hoo!  Amelia is the closest at 17 degrees.  Farewell, First Lady of the Air!

Answer 17

Orville Wright is my 8th cousin. We share the same 7th great grandfather, Nicholas Stillwell Jr.

Amazingly, we are of the same generation, even though our births are 87 years apart.

Answer 18

The Wright brothers are my third cousins 3x removed on my dad's side of the family.

Answer 19

Hey, what about my 7th cousin (once removed) Glenn Curtiss [Curtiss-352]! He may have done more for aviation in the US than Wright. BTW Orville Wright is my 6th cousin (twice removed).

Answer 20

Closest to Amelia Earhart 16 degrees then Orville Wright 18 degrees