The polar exploration ship The Endurance was recently found, so we're featuring Ernest Shackleton in the Connection Finder this week.
Featured alongside him are other polar explorers:
Which one is most closely connected to you? If you're one of the 25.3 million 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.
Special feature: Check out how you're connected to other notables by using the green MyConnections button in the upper right hand corner of the category page. Browse related categories like Antarctic Explorers and Researchers, Arctic Explorers, and Explorers.
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. Ernest Shackleton and Vitus Bering. 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!)
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22 degrees from Robert Falcon Scott
23 degrees from Ernest Shackleton 25 degrees from Lawrence Oates 25 degrees from John Rymill 26 degrees from Richard Byrd 28 degrees from Jean-Baptiste Charcot 28 degrees from Ronald Amundsen 29 degrees from Vitus Bering 30 degrees from Adolf Erik Nordenskiold 30 degrees from Maupits Snellen 31 degrees from Henry Larsen
I am most closely connected to Richard Byrd at 20 degrees of separation.
At 16 degrees, I'm most closely related to Ernest Shackleton - we are also 14th cousins 4 times removed 16 degrees from Ernest Shackleton 14th cousins 4 times removed 19 degrees from Lawrence Oates 20 degrees from Robert Scott 23 degrees from Richard Byrd 13th cousins 3 times removed 23 degrees from Maurits Snellen 24 degrees from Jean-Baptiste Charcot 25 degrees from John Rymill 26 degrees from Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld 15th cousins 6 times removed 27 degrees from Vitus Bering 31 degrees from Roald Amundsen, 31 degrees from Henry Larsen
I am 22 degrees from Ernest Shackleton (12th cousin3x), 35 degrees from Roald Amundsen, 29 degrees from Vitus Bering, 20 degrees from Richard Byrd (12th cousins2x), 24 degrees from Jean-Baptiste Charcot, 31 degrees from Henry Larsen, 27 degrees from Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld (18th cousins7x), 23 degrees from Lawrence Oates, 27 degrees from John Rymill, 24 degrees from Robert Scott, 31 degrees from Maurits Snellen and 19 degrees from Ken Spratlin.
Richard Byrd - 18th cousins four times removed
Ernest Shackleton - 19th cousins four times removed
Adolf Erik - 19th cousins 9 times removed
I am 25 degrees from Ernest Shackleton, 32 degrees from Roald Amundsen, 26 degrees from Vitus Bering, 22 degrees from Richard Byrd, 30 degrees from Jean-Baptiste Charcot, 37 degrees from Henry Larsen, 31 degrees from Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld, 28 degrees from Lawrence Oates, 32 degrees from John Rymill, 29 degrees from Robert Scott, 34 degrees from Maurits Snellen and 24 degrees from Ken Spratlin.
18 degrees to Richard Byrd, with a couple of marriages along the path. Shackleton, Byrd, and Nordenskiöld appear to be cousins, but all very distant.
11 degrees from Scott. 16 from Shackleton. 17 from Charcot. 19 from Byrd and Oates. 21 from Rymill. 22 from Nordenskiöld. 24 from Snellen. 26 from Bering and Spratlin. 30 from Amundsen. 37 from Larsen. Not skilled yet at working out the cousins etc. relationships.
