Is anyone closer than 17 degrees from Alexander Hamilton?

Question

I am 17 degrees from Alexander through a Fairchild/Proffitt marriage link.

We are also 8th cousins, 7 times removed.  Common ancestor: Duncan Campbell.

Comments

Nope, 18 degrees,17th cousins 4x removed

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Nope, 18 degrees, no common ancestor

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Not I. 18 degrees. 15th cousins, 6 times removed going back to Edward Plantagenet!

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We are 10th Cousins 4x removed

Answer 1

I am 13 degrees on this one via his wife via her mother. No blood relationship though.

Answer 2

9th  cousins 4x removed  from Leech-898   but  can  I  really  prove  it

Answer 3

I'm a half 2nd cousin, 7 times removed, according to my tree in Family Tree Maker. Not sure how that works out in degrees, or half-degrees.

Answer 4

Yes, 16 degrees through my Tuttle line.

Answer 5

I am 15 degrees, 14th cousins 6 times removed.

Answer 6

17 degrees on the nose. 16th cousins 3XR through Edmund FitzAlan

Answer 7

18th cousin... 16th cousin four times removed  MRCA is Edmund FitzAlan (1285 - 1326)

Answer 8

17 degrees here. 6th cousins 7 times removed. Common ancestor-James Stewart 1497-1576

Answer 9

I'm 19 degrees, so close! :)

Answer 10

Alexander Hamilton  18 degrees, 16th cousins three times removed.  Walter (Burgh) de Burgh Burgh-11.

Answer 11

Alexander Hamilton is 17 Degrees from Sandra Vines

Alexander and Sandra are 7th cousins 7 times removed

Alexander Hamilton and Sandra (Griffin) Vines are both descendants of John Drummond.

Answer 12

17 degrees and no blood relationship.

Answer 13

Nope. 17 degrees too. Alexander is my 6th cousin 6 times removed.

Answer 14

17 degrees and also 13th cousins 6 times removed (13C6R).

Answer 15

16 Degrees, 16th Cousins, 3x removed.

Answer 16

I am 11 degrees. My 4x great grandmother's brother Lt Colonel Thomas Robertson of the East India Company married his cousin Christian Hamilton.

Answer 17

20 degrees and 10th cousins, 5 times removed.

Answer 18

12th cousins five times removed.

Answer 19

I am 18 degrees from Alexander Hamilton.  We are 8th cousins, 8 times removed through his father's line.

I am also his wife's 8th cousin, 8 times removed through her mother's line.  I am 18 degrees from her as well.

Answer 20

Elizabeth Joanne and Alexander are 8th cousins 6 times removed

15 common ancestors were found between Elizabeth Joanne and Alexander. I haven't explored all the kinship lines but researchers are welcome to do so. :)