Which Hispanic Hero are you most closely connected to?

Question

We're currently in Hispanic Heritage month in the US, so we're celebrating our Hispanic Heroes in the Connection Finder this week starting with Simón Bolívar, liberator of of the present-day nations of Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia.

Here are other heroes to check your connection to: 

• Cesar Chavez, labor leader and civil rights activist
• Bernardo de Gálvez, US Revolutionary War hero
• Jennifer Lopez, actress, dancer, and singer
• Rita Moreno, actress, dancer, and singer
• Pio Pico, last Mexican governor of Alta California
• Jose Maria Redondo, Yuma, Arizona pioneer
• Lola Rodríguez de Tió, poet, abolitionist, and women's rights advocate
• St. José Toribio Romo González, Mexican saint and martyr
• Ruben Salazar, civil rights activist and journalist
• José de San Martín y Matorras, liberator of Argentina, Chile and Peru

Which one is most closely connected to you? If you're one of the 27.2 million of us who are connected to each other on our big tree you can check with the Connection Finder.

Special Feature: Check out how you're connected to other Notables, such as Venezuelan notables, Trailblazing women, and Activists and Reformers using the green MyConnections button in the upper right hand corner of these category pages.

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. Olivia Newton-John and  Simón Bolívar. 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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Answer 1

Just Lola Rodriquez de Tio - 17th cousins, 5x removed

via this guy. https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Castilla-105

Answer 2

17 degrees from Pio Pico, through my ex-husband's connections.

19 degrees from Ruben Salazar, through my own family connections.

No blood relation with either; only one (distant) cousin from this group:

Lola Rodriguez de Tio -- 17th cousin, 6 times removed

Answer 3

19 degrees from Ruben Salazar, no blood relationship

Just one cousin:

Lola Rodriguez de Tio -- 17th cousin, 7 times removed

Answer 4

Pio de Jesus 18 degrees

Answer 5

18 Degrees from Pío de Jesus Pico 4 branches (4-8-1-6)

20 Degrees from Jennifer Lopez, 3 branches (1-12-8), her husband Ben (Affleck-Boldt) Afleck, 16th cousins three times removed MRCA Margaret (Grey) Bonville, Grey-370

22 Degrees from Bernardo de Gálvez 6 branches (1-1-4-10-3-4)

22 Degrees from Ruben Salazar  4 branches (2-7-5-9)

23 Degrees from Jose Maria Redondo 5 branches (7-2-8-3-4)

25 Degrees from Rita Moreno 7 branches (2-5-2-2-5-2-8)

26 Degrees from Simón Bolivar Palacios Ponte y Blanco 5 branches (8-3-4-2-10)

28 Degrees from St. José Toribio Romo González 7 branches (5-3-4-2-8-1-6)

30 Degrees from José de San Martín y Matorras 6 branches (1-3-3-9-6-9)

37 Degrees from Lola Rodríguez de Tió,  4 branches (15-9-6-8), 17th cousins 6 times removed MRCA Fernando Alfósez (Castilla) de Castilla, Castilla-105

Answer 6

Kind of dilute kindred, but 17th cousins 5x removed with cousin Lola.

Dolores (Rodríguez de Astudillo y Ponce de León) Rodríguez de Tió (1843-1924) and Mary Gossage are both descendants of Fernando Alfónsez (Castilla) de Castilla (1201-1252).

Well, I'm certainly laughing about this surprise because Cousin Lola is a descendant of Ponce de León.  I still recall how fascinating it was to learn the history of explorers of the "New World" - in 5th grade!  I was particularly impressed with Ponce de León . . . so I checked our connection.  He is a 6th cousin 16 times removed - one of my favorite Hispanic Heros. 

And his 9th Great Grandaughter is impressive too!
"a poet, an advocate for the abolition of slavery, the support of women's rights, and the independence of Puerto Rico from Spain, and she is a descendant of Ponce de León"

 

Answer 7

19 Degrees to Bernardo de Gálvez, US Revolutionary War hero

Answer 8

Relations:

• 22 Degrees from Pío de Jesus Pico (Paternal) (1-3-5-2-4-8)
• 22 Degrees from Bernardo de Gálvez (maternal) (1-1-4-6-5-6)
• 26 Degrees from José Toribio Romo González (maternal) (8-19)
• 26 Degrees from Rita Moreno (paternal) (2-5-2-9-9)
• 31 Degrees from José de San Martín y Matorras (paternal) (1-3-3-3-3-8-11)
• 36 Degrees from Lola Rodríguez de Tió (maternal) (7-4-14-7-5)

Connections:

• 21 Degrees from Jennifer Lopez
• 23 Degrees from Jose Redondo
• 23 Degrees from Ruben Salazar
• 27 Degrees from Cesar Chavez
• 28 Degrees from Simón Bolívar y Palacios Ponte y Blanco

Answer 9

1 Relation:

Dolores (Rodríguez de Astudillo y Ponce de León) Rodríguez de Tió is my 17th cousin, 5X removed.  Our CA's are Fernando Alfónsez (Castilla) de Castilla and Charles (Capet) Napoli (both my 21st GGF's).  I am 43 Degrees from Lola Rodríguez de Tió (1 Branch)

Family connections:

• 21 Degrees from Jennifer Lopez (1-9-9-3)
• 21 Degrees from Bernardo de Gálvez (7-1-8-4-1-1)
• 22 Degrees from Pío de Jesus Pico (4-8-8-3)
• 22 Degrees from Ruben Salazar (11-10-2)
• 23 Degrees from Jose Redondo (6-4-11-3)
• 26 Degrees from Rita Moreno (9-9-2-5-2)
• 26 Degrees from Cesar Chavez (8-7-7-5)
• 26 Degrees from José Toribio Romo González (12-7-8)
• 28 Degrees from Simón Bolívar y Palacios Ponte y Blanco (8-7-4-7-3)
• 31 Degrees from José de San Martín y Matorras (11-8-3-3-3-3-1)

Answer 10

Bernardo de Gálvez - 19°
Pío de Jesus Pico IV - 19°
Jennifer Lopez - 20°
Ruben Salazar - 20°
Jose Maria Redondo - 22°
Simón José Antonio de la Santísima Trinidad (Bolívar) Bolívar y Palacios Ponte y Blanco - 22°
Rita (Alverío) Moreno - 23°
Cesario Estrada Chavez - 24°
José Toribio Romo González - 27°
José Francisco (de San Martín) de San Martín y Matorras - 32°

Dolores (Rodríguez de Astudillo y Ponce de León) Rodríguez de Tió - 38° - 17th C4xR

I didn't expect to have any connections on this list, but it seems I have a cousin, Delores. I had to check out where this line came to me through, & surprise, not, it came through my mother's, mother's Lawson line. At least this 1 wasn't a Higgenbothem connection.