Which 1960s musician are you most closely connected to? [closed]

Question

This week we're featuring recording artists of the 1960's in the Connection Finder to mark the release of Respect, the new biopic about Aretha Franklin.

Featured alongside Aretha in the Connection Finder are other musicians:

• Paul McCartney (The Beatles)
• Johnny O'Keefe
• Slim Dusty
• Dick Dale (Dick Dale and the Del-Tones)
• Mama Cass (The Mamas and the Papas)
• Mary Servaes
• Jan Johansson
• France Gall
• Bob Dylan
• Leonard Cohen

Who are you most closely connected to? If you're one of the 23,343,000 of us who are connected to each other on our big tree you can check with the Connection Finder.

You can check for shared ancestors with the Relationship Finder. Are you a cousin to any of them? Your Relationship Finder Quick Links page (see your profile pull-down menu under "Relationships") has quick links for several notable groups.

New special feature: Check out how you're connected to other musicians by searching the musicians category and the various subcategories like Famous Musicians of the 20th Century, Singer-Songwriters, and Jazz Musicians using the green MyConnections button in the upper right hand corner of the page.

Let us know how you're related below! If you want to share your connection on social media with cousins and friends, click the "get shareable image" below the results, e.g. Aretha Franklin and Mama Cass. Then just upload it along with the URL of your direct connection. (Please refrain from sharing your connection on the featured profiles themselves, though. It clutters conversations on research and collaboration. Thanks!)

P.S. Help us choose and improve profiles for next week's feature on  Pseudonyms!

Answer 1

I am most closely connected to Slim Dusty at 23 degrees.

Answer 2

22 degrees from my favorite Leonard Cohen. I absolutely love hearing him sing         I'm Your Man .

Answer 3

22 degrees from Richard Monsour
25 degrees from Leonard Cohen
25 degrees from Johnny O'Keefe
27 degrees from Gordon Kirkpatrick
27 degrees from Bob Dylan
27 degrees from Paul McCartney
30 degrees from France Gall
31 degrees from Mama Cass Cohen
38 degrees from Mary Servaes
39 degrees from Aretha Franklin
42 degrees from Jan Johansson

Answer 4

I don't check "degrees" but the first time I can recall, I have no familial relationship to anyone on the list!

Comments

Same here, those are mostly people whose trees go back far.

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Here are your connections:
18 generations   Find Relationship   Alvin Pleasant Delaney Carter (1891-1960)
19 generations   Find Relationship   Louise Dilworth (Beatty) Homer (1871-1947)
19 generations   Find Relationship   Oliver Albee LaFarge (1931-1965)
19 generations   Find Relationship   Kurt Donald Cobain (1967-1994)
21 generations   Find Relationship   Ronald James (Padavona) Dio (1942-2010)
21 generations   Find Relationship   John Edward Prine (1946-2020)
21 generations   Find Relationship   Chester Charles Bennington (1976-2017)
22 generations   Find Relationship   Wynonna (Ciminella) Judd
22 generations   Find Relationship   Harold Forster Chapin (1942-1981)
32 generations   Find Relationship   Pat (Andrzejewski) Giraldo
35 generations   Find Relationship   Garth Brooks
36 generations   Find Relationship   Thomas Earl Petty (1950-2017)
38 generations   Find Relationship   Maurice Ernest Gibb CBE (1949-2003)
41 generations   Find Relationship   Kenneth Ray Rogers (1938-2020)
58 generations   Find Relationship   Thomas Richard Fogerty (1941-1990)

Answer 5

My closest connection is 19 degrees from Johnny O'Keefe.

Everyone else ranges from 20 to 45 degrees of connection.

BTW Paul McCartney is just 11 degrees from Princess Diana.

Answer 6

I guess my ancestors weren't musically inclined.  All of them are really distant.

Answer 7

Richard Monsour at 26 degrees.

Answer 8

23 degrees from Richard Monsour.

Answer 9

Most closely connected at 21 degrees from Bob Dylan.  No blood relatives in this group.  I think that's the first time that has happened!

Comments

Usually means sparse graphs. An opportunity for volunteers!

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Hi Cheryl.

You and I are 27 degrees apart, through your husband and then six (6) further marriages.

Answer 10

I am mostly closely connected to Bob Dylan at 26 degrees of separation.

• 26 28 degrees from Bob Dylan
  • 9 branches (2-5-3-2-3-3-2-3-4)
• 27 30 degrees from Gordon Kirkpatrick
  • 7 branches (2-5-6-3-5-3-4)
• 28 degrees from Leonard Cohen
  • 3 branches (8-9-12)
• 28 29 degrees from Richard Monsour
  • 5 branches (3-9-9-4-4)
• 28 degrees from Johnny O'Keefe
  • 6 branches (6-4-3-4-7-5)
• 29 degrees from Cass Elliott
  • 6 branches (3-2-4-10-3-8)
• 31 degrees from Paul McCartney
  • 7 branches (1-5-1-4-6-10-5)
• 32 degrees from France Gall
  • 7 branches (3-5-6-6-6-2-5)
• 38 41 degrees from Mary Servaes
  • 6 branches (11-13-4-3-4-4)
• 40 41 degrees from Aretha Franklin
  • 11 branches (2-3-2-1-2-1-6-9-4-4-7)
• 41 degrees from Jan Johansson
  • 9 branches (8-1-2-4-5-2-4-8-8)

Updated connections on 2 Apr 2022

Answer 11

Is there a way to see how we are related to someone BY BLOOD, not just the distant IN-LAW CONNECTIONS? I got excited seeing I'm related to PAUL MCCARTNEY & ARETHA FRANKLIN! But when i looked, it was thru a distant inlaw connection. That, to me, isnt really "related to".

Comments

The Connection finder finds connections through marriages, etc.

The Relationship finder will do the blood relationships.

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If you start your search for connection/relationship from a category page like the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, there is a button in the upper right corner marked "My Connections."  It will give you two groups:

1.) "Ancestors and Cousins" with the distance measured in "generations."  (for cousins, count both up and down the tree)  In this group, you really are genetically related!

2.) "Connections" with the distance measured in degrees.  This group includes connections by marriage to in-laws, sometimes multiples.  People in this group are referred to as "some kin."

Answer 12

• 24 degrees from Richard Anthony Monsour
• 26 degrees from John Michael O'Keefe
• 26 degrees from David Gordon Kirkpatrick
• 26 degrees from Leonard Norman Cohen
• 27 degrees from Bob (Zimmerman) Dylan
• 28 degrees from Paul McCartney
• 30 degrees from Ellen Naomi Cohen
• 31 degrees from Isabelle Geneviève Marie Anne Gall
• 36 degrees from Maria Beij
• 40 degrees from Jan Johansson
• 40 degrees from Aretha Louise Franklin

I have no familial relationship to anyone on the list!

Answer 13

Johnny O'Keefe (20)

Slim Dusty (21)

Mick Jagger (21) - his family is connected to mine via just one marriage, that of Elizabeth Hendra and John Arthur.

Answer 14

Ancestors and Cousins

• No blood relations

Connections

• 23 degrees - Leonard Cohen
• 23 degrees - Dick Dale
• 24 degrees - Aretha Franklin
• 24 degrees - Bob Dylan
• 25 degrees - Mama Cass
• 26 degrees - Paul McCartney
• 26 degrees - Johnny O'Keefe
• 27 degrees - Slim Dusty
• 30 degrees - France Gall
• 36 degrees - Jan Johansson
• 37 degrees - Mary Servaes

Answer 15

32 degrees from Aretha Franklin
36 degrees from Paul McCarthy
19 degrees from Johnny O'Keefe
17 degrees from Slim Dusty
29 degrees from Dick Dale
32 degrees from Mama Cass
41 degrees from Mary Servaes
42 degrees from Jan Johansson
32 degrees from Bob Dylan
32 degrees from Leonard Cohen 

Answer 16

Closest connection is Bob Dylan at 24 degrees.

Answer 17

Dick Dale -19 degrees    Bob Dylan -26  Funny, I feel closer when I listen to them.

Answer 18

Duane Allman-525.  (9c1x)

Answer 19

Just connections!

• 22 Degrees from Paul McCartney (1-1-21)
• 22 Degrees from Cass Elliot (3-6-2-9-3)
• 24 Degrees from Aretha Franklin (3-4-1-7-2-8)
• 24 Degrees from Bob Dylan (11-6-4-4)
• 25 Degrees from Richard Monsour (3-8-5-7-3)
• 26 Degrees from Johnny O'Keefe (5-2-2-2-4-9-3)
• 27 Degrees from Gordon Kirkpatrick (5-3-2-6-5-7)
• 27 Degrees from Leonard Cohen (19-9)
• 30 Degrees from France Gall (11-2-2-2-6-5-3)
• 34 Degrees from Mary Servaes (7-9-2-2-5-6-3-1)
• 38 Degrees from Jan Johansson (5-3-4-4-5-10-8)

Answer 20

Paul McCartney CH MBE - 20°
Aretha Louise Franklin - 22°
Ellen Naomi (Cohen) Elliot - 23°
Bob (Zimmerman) Dylan - 24°
John Michael O'Keefe - 24°
Leonard Norman Cohen CC GOQ - 24°
Richard Anthony Monsour - 24°
David Gordon Kirkpatrick AO MBE - 25°
Isabelle Geneviève Marie Anne Gall - 28°
Maria (Beij) Servaes - 30°

Not a Cousin in the bunch, just connections that get further & further away from me.