Which Centenarian are you most closely connected to?

Question

This week we're looking at people who lived to see an entire century come and go in the Connection Finder, starting with renowned composer and lyricist Irving Berlin, who lived to be 101.

Here are others who lived to be 100 or more years old: 

• George Burns, American actor, 100 years
• Susanna Ramel, Swedish actress/singer/dancer, 100 years
• Paul Royle, Australian Royal Air Force pilot in WWII, 101 years
• Pierre Louis-Dreyfus, French Resistance fighter in WWII, 102 years
• Marjorie Robb, survivor of the wreck of the Titanic, 103 years
• Anna Cooper, American scholar, 104 years
• Olivia de Havilland, British actress, 104 years
• Sir Nicholas Winton, British humanitarian, 106 years
• Zhou Youguang, Chinese developer of Romanized version of Mandarin written language, 111 years
• Richard Overton, American WWII veteran, 112 years

Which one is most closely connected to you? If you're one of the 26.2 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 Centenarians, Super Centenarians, and World War II Resistance.

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. Irving Berlin and Sir Nicholas Winton. 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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Comments

I am not know about most of these Centenarians, but these are those with whom I am most familiar:

Marjorie Robb and Lynden are 19th cousins five times removed

Olivia de Havilland and Lynden are 13th cousins four times removed

 19 Degrees from Irving Berlin

 21 Degrees from George Burns

27 Degrees from Zhou Youguang (有光 周)

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I'm 10 degrees from Olivia de Havilland. Her father married Mary Conner, a second cousin three times removed on my paternal grandmother's side. Mary was a nurse and the daughter of a Yorkshire farmer. Apparently she also had "psychic visions." Her life must have been quite interesting!

Answer 1

• 18 degrees from Marjorie Robb, also 7C4R.
• 21 degrees from Irving Berlin
• 20 degrees from Olivia de Havilland, also 12C5R
• 23 degrees from Richard Overton, also 15C4R
• 24 degrees from George Burns
• 25 degrees from Susanna Ramel
• 25 degrees from Pierre Louis-Dreyfus
• 26 degrees from Anna Cooper
• 32 degrees from Nicholas Winton
• 39 degrees from Paul Royle

Answer 2

My closest is my great Aunt Justine Stott, who lived to be 100. For celebrities, it's Olivia De Havilland at 18 degrees.

Answer 3

17 degrees from Marjorie Anne (Newell) Robb, Newell-772, 3 branches (6-3-9),  9th cousins once removed MRCA Katherine (Duxford) Richardson, Duxford-1

20 degrees from Richard Overton, Overton-2194, 3 branches (10-2-9), 14th cousins MRCA Elizabeth (Heron) Tailboys, Heron-49

21 degrees from Irving Berlin 4 branches (1-8-5-8)

23 degrees from George Burns 4 branches (1-2-11-10)

23 degrees from Oliva de Havilland, De_Havilland-65, 5 branches (1-10-2-2-9) 14th cousins twice removed MRCA Margaret (Mallory) Corbet, Mallory-9

23 degrees from Pierre Louis-Dreyfus 4 branches (2-5-6-11)

26 degrees from Susanna Ramel 4 branches (3-4-6-14)

27 degrees from Zhou Youguang 7 branches (1-2-2-6-4-3-10)

28 degrees from Anna Cooper 6 branches (5-5-2-5-1-11)

34 degrees from Sir Nicholas Winton 6 branches (7-7-1-7-3-10)

38 degrees from Paul Royle 7 branches (4-5-6-4-7-3-10)

Answer 4

*15 degrees-Olivia de Havilland 5C4R   *18 degrees-Richard Overton   *19 degrees-George Burns and Pierre Louis-Dreyfus   *also my maternal grand mother, Anna May Umlah-5 days from 104   *her younger sister, Lillie Alberta-105   *her youngest sister, Annie Lecina-103.

Answer 5

George Burns is 18 Degrees from Me.

Answer 6

Why, my mother of course! She turned 100 on 14th of June this year.

On the list above, Olivia de Havilland is easily the closest, at 21 degrees.

Comments

Congrats to your mother!  

Answer 7

I am 13 degrees from Marjorie Robb.  My mother, Maxine Jeffrey-1179, also died, aged 103.

Answer 8

I'm supposedly closest to Richard Overton at 15 degrees - he may have been my 5th cousin 4x removed with common ancestor being Elizabeth Garland. However, I am suspect of her profile as she has three different attached husbands with children from two of them (Nathaniel Dickenson - my ancestor and James Overton - Richard's ancestor) being born in the same time frame. 

Answer 9

29 degrees from Irving Berlin

29 degrees from George Burns

24 degrees from Susanna Ramel

36 degrees from Paul Royle

29 degrees from Pierre Louis-Dreyfus

24 degrees from Marjorie Robb

32 degrees from Anna Cooper

22 degrees from Olivia de Havilland 

37 degrees from Sir Nicholas Winton

34 degrees from Zhou Youguang

27 degrees from Richard Overton

Answer 10

3 degrees from my great grandfather, Albert H. Woolson who lived to be 106. (He was still alive when I was born!)

Answer 11

You forgot about Vera Lynn, British singer who personified WW2, was 103 when she passed away in 2020.

Answer 12

My connections:

21 degrees from Irving Berlin

17 degrees from George Burns

26 degrees from Susanna Ramel

39 degrees from Paul Royle

22 degrees from Pierre Louis-Dreyfus

19 degrees from Marjorie Robb 8C 4xR

25 degrees from Anna Cooper

20 degrees from Olivia de Havilland 14C 4xR

31 degrees from Sir Nicholas Winton

26 degrees from Zhou Youguang

17 degrees from Richard Overton 14C 3xR