Who are you most closely connected to: OPS WikiTree 7x7 Challenge?

Question

We're featuring the seven starting profiles from the current WikiTree Challenge in conjunction with the Society of One-Place Studies (OPS) in the Connection Finder this week, as well as a few notables born on February 8th, such as Empress Consort Karoline von Bayern.

Here is who we're connected to; what's your connection?

• Charles Bullock, OPS
• Rose Ann Cassin, OPS
• James Dean, actor
• William Manley, OPS
• Sarah Monksfield, OPS
• James Ruskin, author
• Elspet Smith, OPS
• Lana Turner, actress
• Samuel Vick, OPS
• George Wallace, OPS

Which one is most closely connected to you? If you're one of the 28.5 million of us who are connected to each other on our big tree you can check with the Connection Finder.

In addition to the above and our many Featured Connections, you can check your connections to any category on WikiTree, such as Cedar Hill Cemetery (did you known cemeteries can also be One Place Studies?) and This Day In History February 9. Click the green MyConnections button in the upper right hand corner of the category 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. Banjo Paterson and Empress Consort Karoline. 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!)

Help us find and improve the profiles for next week's Black Comedians feature in partnership with the Black Heritage Project.

Answer 1

I am most closely connected to Charles Bullock and Sarah Monksfield at 22 degrees.

Answer 2

16 degrees from George Wallace
18 degrees from Charles Bullock
22 degrees from Empress Consort Karoline von Bayern 

Answer 3

Closest at 17 degrees from both Empress Consort Karoline von Bayern (11th cousin, 6 times removed) and James Dean (17th cousin, twice removed)

Another cousin:

Lana Turner -- 14th cousin, once removed

Comments

hey Cheryl we are 9th cousins thru Anne Leper

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Exciting!  That whole part of my tree is new to me, having been recently discovered by a Secret Santa helper in December 2022.  I'm thrilled to have the brick wall come tumbling down and to find so many ancestors and cousins!  Nice to meet you, Cousin. :)

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Hey, I have a question...when did you get a response from your Secret Santa helper??  Where do you look to find out if there's an answer?

thanks :)

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also, we are 17th cousins through Maud (Scrope) Freville and we have 11 other Common Ancestors between us besides her :)

Answer 4

18 degrees from James Dean (no blood relation)

Cousins:

Empress Consort Karoline von Bayern--9th cousin, 11 times removed

Lana Turner--16th cousin, once removed

Comments

Hey Sean,

We are 23rd cousins through Robert (Holand) de Holland [Holand-70] and have a total of 12 CA between us...cheers :)

Answer 5

My closest is Empress Consort Caroline von Bayern at 12 degrees.  We are third cousins, six times removed.

Answer 6

I am most closely connected to James Dean at 18 degrees of separation.

• 18 degrees from James Dean
• 19 degrees from Lana Turner
• 22 degrees from Rose Ann Cassin
• 22 degrees from Karoline Augusta von Bayern
• 22 degrees from George Wallace
• 25 degrees from John Ruskin
• 25 degrees from Samuel Vick
• 28 degrees from Charles Bullock
• 29 degrees from William Manley
• 31 degrees from Elspet Duncan
• 33 degrees from Sarah Monksfield

Answer 7

I am mostly connected to Lana Turner (13th cousins, 1x) and James Dean (no blood relation) at 17 degrees.

Ancestors and Cousins:

17 degrees - Lana Turner (13th cousins, 1x) - MRCA - Marion (Ogilvy) Gray
20 degrees - Empress Consort Karoline von Bayern (9th cousins, 8x) - MRCA - Christian Oldenberg

Connections:

17 degrees - James Dean
21 degrees - George Wallace
21 degrees - Rose Ann Cassin
23 degrees - James Ruskin
24 degrees - Samuel Vick
26 degrees - Charles Bullock
27 degrees - William Manley
28 degrees - Elspet Smith
33 degrees - Sarah Monksfield

Comments

Hey Shonda,

I think you mentioned this to me earlier, but you know we're 22C1R? :)

Answer 8

My closest connections are James Dean and Lana Turner (24 degrees)

Answer 9

I am 16 degrees from Lana Turner

18 degrees from Karoline Augusta von Bayern

23 degrees from John Ruskin

26 degrees from George Wallace

26 degrees from Rob Wilson

29 degrees from James Dean

29 degrees from Samuel Wick

29 degrees from Espet Duncan

30 degrees from Charles Bullock

32 degrees from Rose Ann Cassin

32 degrees from William Manley

40 degrees from Sarah Monksfield

Answer 10

I'm most closely related to William Manley (3 degrees, he's my Great-grandfather) - but I already knew that when I nominated him for the OPS Challenge.

Other than him:
24 degrees: John Ruskin, Karoline Augusta von Bayern, George Wallace
25 degrees: James Dean
27 degrees: Charles Bullock, Lana Turner
28 degrees: Elspet Duncan
29 degrees: Rose Ann Cassin, Samuel Vick
33 degrees: Sarah Monksfield

Answer 11

I am most closely connected to Empress Consort Karoline von Bayern, who is my 11^th cousin, 5x removed.

 

Ancestors and Cousins

• 18 degrees from Empress Consort Karoline von Bayern, 11^th cousins, 5x removed – MRCA – Joan (Beaufort) Queen Dowager of Scots (-abt.1445)
• 19 degrees from Lana Turner, 13^th cousin, 2x removed – MRCA – Marion Margaret (Maxwell) Crichton (1472-1527)

Connections

• 20 degrees from James Dean
• 21 degrees from James Ruskin
• 21 degrees from Samuel Vick
• 21 degrees from George Wallace
• 23 degrees from Rose Ann Cassin
• 27 degrees from William Manley
• 27 degrees from Charles Bullock
• 29 degrees from Elspet Smith
• 31 degrees from Sarah Monksfield.

Comments

Hey Mack! :) You are my 23 Cousin, once removed (among others...we have 98 CA between us...wow!) :)

Answer 12

*  13 deg  John Ruskin  *  14 deg  Empress Consort Karoline von Bayern  14C2R  *  14 deg  George Wallace  *  16 deg Lana Turner  14C  *  20 deg  Rose Ann Cassin  *  21 deg  James Dean  *  24 deg  William Manley, Elspet Duncan and Samuel Vick  *  25 deg  Charles Bullock  *  30 deg  Sarah Monksfield  *

Answer 13

17 degrees from Lana Turner (9th cousins, 4x removed)
18 degrees from Karoline Augusta von Bayern (13th cousins, 7x removed)
19 degrees from George Wallace
20 degrees from James Dean
20 degrees from Samuel Vick
22 degrees from John Ruskin
23 degrees from Elspet Duncan
23 degrees from Rose Ann Cassin
26 degrees from Charles Bullock
28 degrees from William Manley
28 degrees from Sarah Monksfield

Comments

Hey Mike, not only are we related on my paternal line via Margaret (Freville) Bingham, but the short connection shows that we're also related through my maternal side, via Nancy Amanda Bush (my 2nd GGM) :)

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Hi Elizabeth, I saw the (paternal-line) Bingham connection, but not the maternal line - still in process?

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Yes, my maternal line is still a "work in progress" :)

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I plan on posting a new gedcom soon, but anything helps with something that once was a brick-wall. :)

Answer 14

This is my first time contributing to a challenge! My closest connections to this challenge:

Empress Consort Karoline von Bayern - 12th cousins, 6 times removed

Lana Turner - 16th cousins, twice removed; 20 degrees of separation

Charles Bullock - 25 degrees of separation 

Rose Ann Cassin - 23 degrees of separation

James Dean - 22 degrees of separation

William Manley - 29 degrees of separation

Sarah Monksfield - 34 degrees of separation

John Ruskin - 23 degrees of separation

Elspet Duncan - 25 degrees of separation

Samuel Vick - 24 degrees of separation

George Wallace - 19 degrees of separation 

Comments

Wow, Molly we are slightly related!  We're 15C4R and our common ancestor is Isabel (Willoughby) Bessingby :)

Answer 15

18 degrees from Lana Turner (14th cousins three times removed)

19 degrees from Empress Consort Karolina Augusta von Bayern (9th cousins nine times removed)

20 degrees from James Dean (11th cousins)

Answer 16

I am related to two of this week's OPS WikiTree 7x7 Challenge:

1) Lana Turner: 17 degrees; 20th cousins/1xr MRCA Elizabeth Salmesbury de Holand

2) Karoline von Bayern: 19 degrees; 16th cousins, 5xr MRCA Elizabeth Salmesbury de Holand

Others not kin-related by degree:

21 degrees: George Wallace; 22 degrees: James Dean, Rose Ann Cassin and Samuel Vick; 24 degrees: John Ruskin; 25 degrees: Charles Bullock; 28 degrees: Elspet Duncan and William Manley; 33 degrees: Sarah Monksfield.

Answer 17

Lana Turner and I are 16th Cousins 3 times removed.

Answer 18

Samuel Vick is 15 Degrees From me. 

Comments

Hey Pam,

We are 16 cousins, twice removed!  We have two common ancestors: Hugh Willoughby and Margaret (Freville) Bingham.

Answer 19

Empress Consort Karoline von Bayern 11th cousin 5x removed; Lana Turner 15th cousin 2x removed

Answer 20

James Dean - 7th cousins once removed