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Who are you most closely connected to:DEC-UVA/Freedman Bureau Friday WikiTree 7X7 Challenge?

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We're featuring the seven starting profiles from the current WikiTree Challenge in conjunction with the DEC-UVA and Freedman Bureau Friday groups in the Connection Finder this week, as well as a few notables who were formerly enslaved.

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

Which one is most closely connected to you? If you're one of the 28.6 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 100 Greatest African Americans and Abolitionists. 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. Eddie Murphy and Blanche Kelso Bruce. 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 Children of the Stars feature.

in The Tree House by Abby Glann G2G6 Pilot (734k points)
edited by Abby Glann
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by Russell Butler G2G6 Pilot (139k points)
Sandy patak. My 5th cousin once removed on my dads Vernon roby side king descendants and ware descendants.  Also Blanche Bruce 22 cousin on my moms side comyn ancestors.
by Darlena Roby G2G Crew (450 points)

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I am most closely connected to Ellen Smith Craft at 22 degrees.
by Samantha Thomson G2G6 Pilot (260k points)
+14 votes
14 degrees from Dolly Burns
17 degrees from Ellen Craft
18 degrees from Ellen Cornett
18 degrees from Blanche Bruce (17th cousins, 4x removed)
20 degrees from Araminta Tubman (13th cousins, 7x removed)
22 degrees from Turner Malone
22 degrees from Ned Mason
24 degrees from Miles Haney
29 degrees from Alice Wells
32 degrees from Rose Fortune
32 degrees from Jeff Logan
by Mike Wells G2G6 Pilot (136k points)
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13 degrees from Blanch Kelso Bruce, 8th cousin 5 times removed. MRCA  Christian (Dethick) Pettus (1527 -  abt 1578).

14 degrees from Ellen Cornett.

16 degrees from Dolly Burns.

16 degrees from Ellen Craft.

19 degrees from Ned Mason.

20 degrees from Turner Malone.

20 degrees from Arminta (Harriet) (Ross) Tubman. 17th cousin 7 times removed. MRCA Anna de Balliol (abt 1204 - 1251).

25 degrees from Miles Haney.

27 degrees from Alice Wells.

28 degrees from Jeff Logan.

34 degrees from Rose Fortune.
by Frank Blankenship G2G6 Pilot (130k points)
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I am mostly connected to our member of the week, Sandy Patak (3 branches), and our featured connections, Blanche Bruce (1 branch), Ellen Cornett (1 branch), Dolly Epps (4 branches) - all being 17 degrees. Sandy is the closest cousin.

Ancestors and Cousins:

17 degrees - Sandy Patak (9th cousins) - MRCA - Thomas Harrison
17 degrees - Blanche Bruce (14th cousins, 2x) - MRCA - William Graham 2nd Lord Graham
21 degrees - Harriet Tubman (11th cousin, 6x) uncertain - MRCA - William Baillie, 3rd Lord Hoprig

Connections:

17 degrees - Dolly Epps
17 degrees - Ellen Cornett
19 degrees - Ellen Smith Craft
20 degrees - Ned Mason
22 degrees - Turner Malone
28 degrees - Miles Haney
30 degrees - Jefferson Logan
30 degrees - Alice Wells
38 degrees - Rose Fortune

by Shonda Feather G2G6 Pilot (409k points)
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My closest by degrees are (at 18 degrees) Blanche Bruce, who is a very distant cousin, and Ellen Craft, with whom I have no known relationship.
by Roger Stong G2G Astronaut (1.3m points)
+11 votes

21 degrees from Ellen Smith Craft
25 degrees from Dolly Burns
26 degrees from Blanche Kelso Bruce
26 degrees from Ellen Cornett

by Roy Tonkin G2G Astronaut (3.3m points)
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There were quite a few fairly close connections this week.  Dolly Burns and Ellen Craft at 16 degrees and Blanche Bruce at 17 were the closest.

Harriet Tubman and Blanche Bruce are distant cousins, 13th, plus some removals.
by Steve Ryan G2G6 Mach 8 (82.8k points)
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by Joel Zummak G2G6 Mach 4 (50.0k points)
+9 votes
Blanche Bruce--21st cousins three times removed

Harriet Tubman--17th cousins 7 times removed

I have a DNA connection to Ned Mason via GedMatch. I'm working on the connection.
by Eileen Robinson G2G6 Pilot (203k points)
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My closest connection is 18 degrees of separation on my father's side of the family.

by Denise Jarrett G2G6 Mach 6 (64.0k points)
+8 votes

I am most closely connected to Blanche Bruce at 16 degrees of separation:

No Relationship Found

by Tommy Buch G2G Astronaut (1.9m points)
edited by Tommy Buch
+10 votes
My list.

I am not shocked considering that many of my Maternal side come from the Deep South and at least one of my 4th Maternal Great Grandfathers was a Free Person of Color! Most of this list are only related to me through step grandfathers.....

19 degrees from Blanche Bruce

19 degrees from Dolly Burns

21 degrees from Ellen Cornett

18 degrees from Ellen Craft

38 degrees from Rose Fortune

30 degrees from Miles Haney

34 degrees from Jeff Logan

24 degrees from Turner Malone

26 degrees from Ned Mason

20 degrees from Araminta Tubman

31 degrees from Alice Wells
by Bonnie Day G2G Crew (500 points)
+11 votes
Cool! I'm fifteen degrees from Dolly!
by Kate Schmidt G2G6 Pilot (121k points)
+11 votes
Harriet Tubman and I are 20th cousins 8x removed

Blanche Kelso Bruce and I are 24th cousins 2x removed

Interesting, now I have to go down that rabbit hole LOL.
by Teresa Willis G2G6 Mach 4 (49.8k points)
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Blanche Bruce was my 9th cousin 4x removed.
by Michelle Stein G2G Crew (960 points)
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I have two connections with whom I am related!

1) Harriet Tubman: 24 degrees; 20th cousins/8xr through MRCA Aubrey de Vere

2) Blanch Bruce: 20 degrees; 23rd cousins/2xr through MRCA Aveline (Clare) de Mandeville

Other non-related notables:

18 degrees: Ellen Craft; 19 degrees: Dolly Burns; 21 degrees: Ellen Cornett; 24 degrees: Turner Malone and Ned Mason; 29 degrees: Alice Wells; 30 degrees: Miles Haney; 34 degrees: Jeff Logan; 35 degrees: Rose Fortune.
by Carol Baldwin G2G Astronaut (1.2m points)
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  • Harriet Tubman is my 12th cousin 4x removed.
  • Her enslaver, Anthony Thompson, is my 10th cousin 6x removed.
  • I am 18 degrees from Ellen Craft;
  • Blanche Bruce Kelso is my 17th cousin.
by Gina Jarvi G2G6 Pilot (145k points)
edited by Gina Jarvi
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by Judy Adden G2G6 Mach 6 (63.8k points)
+9 votes
15 degrees from Ellen Cornett (no relation)

Two possible cousins from this group:

Harriet Tubman -- 11th cousin, 5 times removed (uncertain)

Blanche Kelso Bruce -- 14th cousin, twice removed (uncertain)
by Cheryl Cruise G2G6 Pilot (186k points)
+9 votes
16 degrees from both Blanche Kelso Bruce (7th cousin, 3 times removed) and Dolly Burns (no relation)

Another cousin:

Harriet Tubman--13th cousin, 7 times removed (uncertain)
by Sean Delius G2G6 Mach 4 (44.9k points)
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