Which classic Christmas film star are you most closely connected to?

Question

Christmas is nearly here and the watching of Christmas classics is in full swing. So, this week we're featuring Bing Crosby, star of White Christmas, Holiday Inn, and others, in our Connection Finder, along with other stars of those great old films.

Here are the other Christmas film stars we're featuring:

• Lionel Barrymore, It's A Wonderful Life
• Humphrey Bogart, We're No Angels
• Judy Garland, Meet Me In St. Louis
• Cary Grant, The Bishop's Wife
• Gene Lockhart, A Christmas Carol, Miracle on 34th Street
• David Niven, The Bishop's Wife
• Maureen O'Hara, Miracle on 34th Street
• Barbara Stanwyck, Christmas in Connecticut, Remember the Night
• Jimmy Stewart, It's A Wonderful Life, The Shop Around the Corner
• Loretta Young, The Bishop's Wife, Come to the Stable

Which one is most closely connected to you? If you're one of the 27.9 million of us who are connected to each other on our big tree you can check with the Connection Finder.

In addition to our many Featured Connections, you can check your connections to the Famous Actors of the 20th Century and Hollywood Walk of Fame the 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. Mark Cuban and Bing Crosby. 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!)

Join in with next week's Incredible Voices feature by helping to choose and improve profiles for it.

Answer 1

I am most closely connected to James Stewart at 21 degrees.

Answer 2

16 degrees from Maureen O'Hara
17 degrees from Barbara Stanwyck (16th cousins, 5x removed)
18 degrees from Judy Garland (14th cousins, 4x removed)
18 degrees from Jimmy Stewart (11th cousins, 5x removed)
19 degrees from Loretta Young
19 degrees from Cary Grant
19 degrees from Lionel Barrymore
19 degrees from Humphrey Bogart (8th cousins, 2x removed)
19 degrees from Bing Crosby (8th cousins, 4x removed)
22 degrees from David Niven
23 degrees from Eugene Lockhart

Answer 3

My closet connection is a tie at 18 degrees with both our featured member of the week, Louis Ogden II, who is my 9th cousin, 1x removed, and a connection, Loretta Young.

Ancestors and Cousins:

18 degrees - Louis Ogden II (9th cousins, 1x) - MRCA - John Howland Jr.
19 degrees - Humphrey Bogart (8th cousins, 3x) - MRCA - John Howland
19 degrees - Jimmy Stewart (12th cousins, 1x) - MRCA - David Drummond 2nd Lord Drummond
19 degrees - Judy Garland (15th cousins, 2x) - MRCA - William FitzHugh
20 degrees - Bing Crosby (9th cousins, 3x) - MRCA - Henry Howland
20 degrees - Barbara Stanwyck (14th cousins, 3x) - MRCA - John Bourchier KG

Connections:

18 degrees - Loretta Young
20 degrees - Lionel Barrymore
20 degrees - Cary Grant
21 degrees - David Niven
21 degrees - Maureen O'Hara
24 degrees - Eugene Lockheart

Answer 4

I'd like to see Bruce Willis on here for Die Hard ;-)

Answer 5

I am most closely connected to Humphrey Bogart at 17 degrees of separation.

• 17 degrees from Humphrey Bogart
• 18 degrees from Barbara Stanwyck
• 19 degrees from Cary Grant
• 19 degrees from Loretta Young
• 20 degrees from Judy Garland
• 20 degrees from Maureen O'Hara
• 21 degrees from Jimmy Stewart
• 22 degrees from Bing Crosby
• 23 degrees from Lionel Barrymore
• 24 degrees from Eugene Lockhart
• 24 degrees from David Niven

Answer 6

15 degrees from Cary Grant. 15th cousin 2 times removed of his wife from 1949 to 1962 Betty Gordon (Drake) Grant. MRCA Edward Neville (abt 1412 - 1476).

16 degrees from Judy Garland. 8th cousin 2 times removed. MRCA Elizabeth (Grizzell) Coleman (1632 - 1700).

17 degrees from Barbara Stanwyck. 15th cousin 3 times removed. MRCA George Neville (abt 1440 -1492).

17 degrees from Loretta Young.

18 degrees from Maureen O'Hara.

19 degrees from Lionel Barrymore.

19 degrees from David Niven.

19 degrees from Jimmy Stewart. 15th cousin 4 times removed. MRCA John (Plantagenet) of Gaunt (abt 1340 - 1399).

20 degrees from Humphrey Bogart. 15th cousin. MRCA Margaret (Lucombe) Moyle (1405 - 1493).

20 degrees from Bing Crosby. 17th cousin 2 times removed. MRCA Isabella (English) Harrington (abt 1345 - 1397).

23 degrees from Eugene Lockhart.

Answer 7

Liza Minelli 18 so Judy Garland 19

Cary Grant and David Niven 23

Lionel Barrymore and Loretta Young 24

Barbara Stanwyck, Jimmy Stewart and Humphrey Bogart 28

Maureen O'Hara and Bing Crosby 29

Eugene Lockhart 32

Answer 8

No surprise - I'm blood related to Humphrey Bogart, and he's my closest connection at 17 degrees. Oddly enough, the "blood" connection shows up at 18 degrees, so it's interesting that the Relationship Finder threw in both father and mother on one relationship, where the Connection Finder only included the father.

Answer 9

17 Degrees from Barbara Stanwyck, Stevens-10345, one branch (18), 7th cousin twice removed MRCA Benjamin (Crispe) Crisp, Crispe-15

18 Degrees from Humphrey Bogart, Bogart-6, four branches (6-5-2-6), 16th cousin MRCA  William Bonville KG, Bonville-3

18 Degrees from Lionel Barrymore, five branches (2-1-8-2-6)

19 Degrees from Judy Garland, Gumm-43, five branches. (1-1-1-8-9), 11th cousin MRCA(s) Isabel (Baker) Nason, Baker-8879, Margery (Venables) de Bulkeley, Venables-1, her daughter Liza Minnella

19 Degrees from Jimmy Stewart, Stewart-10798, three branches (9-5-6) 17th cousin three times removed MRCA(s) Maud (Zouche) Holand, Zouche-64, Robert Holand, Holand-65

20 Degrees from Cary Grant, four branches (1-6-5-9), his ex-wife Virginia (Cherrill) Martini, Cherrill-23, 17th cousin once removed MRCA(s) John Savage, Savage-94, Maud (Swynnerton) Savage, Swynnerton-1, his ex-wife Barbara Woolworth Hutton, Hutton-872, MRCA(s) Morwyl ferch Ednwain, Ferch_Ednywain-1, his wife Betsy Gordon (Drake) Grant, Drake-4159, 16th cousin MRCA(s) Joan (Venables) Grosvenor, Venables-38, Margery (Despenser) Wentworth, Despenser-26

20 Degrees from Bing Crosby, Crosby-82, two branches (13-8), 18th cousin once removed MRCA(s) Ellen (Langfield) Radcliff, Langfield-2, William Radcliff, Radcliffe-87

21 Degrees from David Nivan, four branches (1-9-5-7), his wife Primula Susan (Rollo) Niven, Rollo-91, 14th cousin once removed MRCA(s) William Tyrwhitt, Tyrwhitt-8, Anne (Constable) Tyrwhitt, Constable-29

21 Degrees from Maureen O'Hara, four branches (1-9-4-8), her husband Charles Francis Blair Jr., Blair-2973, 18th cousin once removed MRCA(s) Maud (Percy) Neville, Percy-15, John (Neville) de Neville KG, Neville-58

21 Degrees from Eugene Lockhart, six branches (2-2-1-5-3-9)

21 Degrees from Loretta Young, four branches (6-4-3-9)

Answer 10

By blood, Barbara Stanwyk - 7th cousins, twice removed - through PGM immigrants Henry Kimball and Martha (Riddlesdale) Kimball.

Answer 11

*  11deg  Loretta Young  *  12deg  David Niven  *  15deg  Cary Grant  *  18deg   Judy Garland  11C3R  *  19deg  Humphrey Bogart  9C2R  *  19deg  Jimmy Stewart  15C3R  *  20deg  Lionel,  Bing16C1R,  Maureen,  Barbara14C1R  *  22deg  Gene Lockhart  *

Answer 12

I love the fact that I am related to Judy Garland and Barbara Stanwyck through the same common ancestors. How cool is that?

 Ancestors and Cousins

19 degrees from Jimmy Stewart, 11^th cousins – MRCA –Marion (Cuninghame) Cunninghame (bef.1521-aft.1605) with 52 common ancestors

19 degrees from Judy Garland, 16^th cousins, 2x removed – MRCA –Katherine (Roet) Swynford (1350-1403) with 146 common ancestors

20 degrees from Barbara Stanwyck, 16^th cousins, 2x removed – MRCA – Katherine (Roet) Swynford (1350-1403) with 83 common ancestors

20 degrees from Humphrey Bogart, 17^th cousins, 1x removed – MRCA – William (Douglas) Douglas First Earl of Douglas (abt.1327-abt.1384) with 96 common ancestors

20 degrees from Bing Crosby, 21^st cousins – MRCA – Robert (Holand) de Holland (abt.1253-bef.1305) with 54 common ancestors

Connections

19 degrees from Lionel Barrymore

19 degrees from Maureen O'Hara

19 degrees from Loretta Young

19 degrees from Cary Grant

20 degrees from David Niven

24 degrees from Eugene Lockhart

Answer 13

21 degrees from Lionel Barrymore

Answer 14

My closest by degrees is Loretta Young at 16 degrees, but no known relationship.

My closest relative is Humphrey Bogart at 17 degrees and a 6th cousin, 4 times removed.

Answer 15

19 degrees - Humphrey Bogart - (8C2R) - MRCA - Hannah (Plaine) Parmelee
19 degrees - Cary Grant
20 degrees - Maureen O'Hara
20 degrees - Jimmy Stewart - (18C5R) - MRCA - Elizabeth (Samlesbury) de Holand
21 degrees - Lionel Barrymore
21 degrees - Bing Crosby - (20C2R) - MRCA - Joane (Holand) Radcliffe
21 degrees - Barbara Stanwyck - (20C3R) - MRCA - Elizabeth (Samlesbury) de Holand
22 degrees - Loretta Young
23 degrees - Judy Garland - (19C3R) - MRCA - Joane (Holand) Radcliffe
24 degrees - Gene Lockhart
24 degrees - David Niven

Answer 16

Living in the Missouri Ozarks, I'll have to choose:

17 Degree Connection who is my 15th cousin 2x removed: Judy Garland Meet Me in St. Louis

Answer 17

I am 16 degrees from Loretta Young.

Answer 18

• Bing Crosby - 10th cousins three times removed, 22 degrees
• Lionel Barrymore - 19 degrees
• Humphrey Bogart - 8th cousins four times removed, 19 degrees
• Judy Garland - 18th cousins once removed, 19 degrees
• Cary Grant - 20 degrees
• Gene Lockhart - 25 degrees
• David Niven - 23 degrees
• Maureen O'Hara - 21 degrees
• Barbara Stanwyck - 18th cousins five times removed, 20 degrees
• Jimmy Stewart - 20th cousins five times removed, 19 degrees
• Loretta Young - 22 degrees

My mom's favorite Ebeneezer Scrooge is played by Reginald Owen from the 1938 A Christmas Carol. I noticed he didn't have a profile, so I made him one. He's not connected to the global tree yet. As always, anyone can feel free to continue where I left off.

[[Owen-13246|John Reginald Owen (1887-1972)]]

Answer 19

Lionel Barrymore - 21 degrees.

My favourite Christmas story is "A Christmas Carol". I am only 18 degrees from author, Charles Dickens.

Answer 20

I am 14 degrees from Cary Grant

17 degrees from Lionel Barrymore

21 degrees from David Niven

22 degree from Loretta Young

24 degrees from Humpnrey Bogart

24 degrees from Bing Crosby

26 degrees from Barbaea Stanuvck

27 degrees from Eugene Lockhart

27 degrees from Jimmy Stewart

27 degrees from Louis Ogden

28 degrees from Judy Garland

28 degrees from Maureen O Hara