Which Hispanic featured profile are you most closely connected to?

Question

The most recent WikiTree Challenge in association with the Society of Hispanic Historical and Ancestral Research (SHHAR) has wrapped up. We're looking at our connections to the seven starting points from the Challenge, as well as some Hispanic notables this week in the Connection Finder:

• Victor Castro, Californio politician, ranchero, and businessman
• Loretto Coronado, WikiTree Challenge focus, wealthy vineyard and cattle owner
• Sebastian Constantino de Arce, WikiTree Challenge focus, Mexico military and helped found a California mission
• Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, author and nun
• Cora Gallegos, WikiTree Challenge focus
• Enrique Gómez Carrillo, writer
• Desiderio Jesse Gonzalez, WikiTree Challenge focus, Mescalero Apache
• Ramon Lopez, WikiTree Challenge focus
• Lin-Manuel Miranda, Broadway Writer/Producer/Actor
• Francisco Felix Rodriguez, WikiTree Challenge focus, Pancho Villa general
• Pancho Villa, Mexican Revolutionary

Which one of these notable Hispanics is closest to you on our single family tree? If you're one of the 29.6 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 Writers and Mexico Notables. 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. Gordon Lightfoot and Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz. 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 Women of Rock feature.

Answer 1

I am most closely connected to Victor Castro at 21 degrees.

Answer 2

No blood relations this round but my closest connection is Cora Gallegos at 12 degrees.

Ancestors and Cousins:

Connections:

12 degrees - Cora Gallegos - 2 branches (2-11)
20 degrees - Victor Castro - 4 branches (1-4-5-11)
20 degrees - Ramon Lopez - 4 branches (2-2-6-11)
21 degrees - Desiderio Gonzales - 5 branches (5-4-4-5-4)
22 degrees - Frank Rodriguez - 5 branches (2-7-2-5-7)
23 degrees - Lin-Manuel Miranda - 5 branches (8-2-3-1-10)
23 degrees - Loretto Coronado - 9 branches (3-1-3-1-2-1-2-1-10)
24 degrees - Sebastian Constantino de Acre - 4 branches (4-3-6-12)
26 degrees - Sor Juana De La Cruz - 5 branches (6-4-5-4-8)
28 degrees - Oliver Stegan - 4 branches (7-6-6-10)
30 degrees - Enrique Gómez Carrillo - 6 branches (1-1-6-8-3-12)
36 degrees - Francisco Villa - 6 branches (4-6-13-1-2-11)

Answer 3

My grandmother used to claim a family connection to Pancho Villa.  If I remember correctly, it was either an uncle or cousin of her mother who was supposedly married to Pancho Villa's wife's sister (no clue which of the four wives this connection was supposedly through... lol!)  Since I have a lot of my grandmother's family tree in, going back to pre-1700 Mexico, I hoped I would see a fairly close connection and solve that mystery.  But, while I DO have a connection to Pancho Villa, it's 34 degrees and goes through my other (white Anglo) grandmother (with a stop at Kit Carson!).  I might have to work on this a little harder and try to uncover the connection the family always claimed!

Answer 4

17 degrees from Frank Rodriguez
17 degrees from Victor Castro
18 degrees from Loretto Coronado
19 degrees from Lin-Manuel Miranda
21 degrees from Sebastian Constantino de Arce
21 degrees from Cora Gallegos
22 degrees from Desiderio Gonzales
24 degrees from Ramon Lopez
25 degrees from Enrique Gómez Carrillo
27 degrees from Sor Juana De La Cruz
34 degrees from Francisco Villa

Answer 5

• 20 degrees - Victor Castro
• 22 degrees - Loretta Coronado
• 22 degrees - Sebastian Constantino de Arce
• 23 degrees - Cora Gallegos
• 24 degrees - Desiderio Gonzalez
• 24 degrees - Lin-Manuel Miranda
• 25 degrees - Ramon Lopez
• 28 degrees - Frank Rodriguez
• 29 degrees - Sor Juana Ines del Cruz
• 31 degrees - Pancho Villa
• 32 degrees - Enrique Gómez Carrillo

Answer 6

I am most closely connected to Cora Gallegos at 18 degrees of separation.

• 18 degrees from Cora Gallegos
• 20 degrees from Victor Castro
• 22 degrees from Desiderio Gonzales
• 22 degrees from Lin-Manuel Miranda
• 22 degrees from Frank Rodriguez
• 23 degrees from Ramon Lopez
• 24 degrees from Loretto Coronado
• 25 degrees from Sebastian Constantino de Arce
• 27 degrees from Enrique Gómez Carrillo
• 29 degrees from Sor Juana De La Cruz
• 36 degrees from Francisco Villa

Answer 7

Victor Castro is first up at 14 degrees.  After that, it's 18 degrees to Sebastian Constantino de Arce. Like Castro he ended up in California, and both connections go through Henry Fitch.  The rest are 20 to 36 degrees away.

Even my farthest connection Pancho Villa goes through Henry Fitch.  He married into the well-connected Carillo family, and his son married a Castro.  The Carillo line brings close connections to the Vallejo family who were influential in the transition from Spanish to Mexican to United States control of California.  All of these families were well connected back to the days when Monterey was the capital of Alta California.

Answer 8

I am 23 degrees from Victor Castro

27 degrees from Loretto Coronado

27 degrees from Sebastian Constantino de Arce

28 degrees from Cora Galligos

30 degrees Ramon Lopez

31 degrees from Lin-Manuel Miranda

32 degrees from Enrique Gomes Carrillo

32 degrees from Desiderio Gonzales

32 degrees from Frank Rodriguez

33 degrees from Sor Juana De La Cruz

39 degrees from Oliver Stegen

45 degrees from Francisco Villa

Answer 9

16° from Víctor Castro (might also be a cousin through the Peralta family, if my Moctezuma Peraltas were of the same family as the Peraltas who went with Anza)

19° from Loretto Coronado

20° from Sebastián Constantino de Arce

18° from Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz

19° from Cora Gallegos

26° from Enrique Gómez Carrillo

22° from Desiderio Jesse Gonzales

23° from Ramón López (wouldn't be surprised if we were distant Sonoran cousins)

23° from Lin-Manuel Miranda

23° from Frank Rodriguez

24° from Pancho Villa

Answer 10

16 degrees from Victor Castro.

17 degrees from Loretto Coronado.

18 degrees from Cora Gallegos.

21 degrees from Lin Manuel Miranda.

21 degrees from Frank Rodriguez.

22 degrees from Sebastian Constantino de Arce.

22 degrees from Desiderio Gonzales.

22 degrees from Ramon Lopez.

27 degrees from San Juana De La Cruz.

28 degrees from Enrique Gomez Carrillo.

35 degrees from Pancho Villa.

Answer 11

The closest to me:  17 degrees from Victor Castro

Answer 12

Actually, I'm most intrigued by my furthest of those connections -- Pancho Villa! 38 degrees.   I'll definitely be looking into this.

Answer 13

No blood relatives this time around.

Most closely connected to Victor Castro at 16 degrees.

Answer 14

18 degrees from Victor Castro.  No blood relatives this time.

Answer 15

17 degrees from Victor Castro, four branches (2-9-1-6)

19 degrees from Loretto Coronado, five branches (3-1-6-2-8)

21 degrees from Sebastian Constantino de Arce, five branches (4-3-8-1-6)

22 degrees from Lin-Manuel Miranda, four branches (8-2-4-9)

24 degrees from Frank Rodriguez, five branches (2-3-3-5-12)

24 degrees from Ramon Lopez, five branches (2-2-8-6-7)

24 degrees from Desiderio Gonzales, six branches (6-4-3-5-3-4)

27 degrees from Stor Juana De La Cruz, six branches (6-5-2-8-1-6)

30 degrees from Francisco Villa, six branches (4-3-4-9-10-1)

30 degrees from Enrique Gómez Carrillo, eight branches (1-1-6-7-2-2-2-10)

Answer 16

17 degrees-Victor Castro, 4 branches (4-3-3-8)

20 degrees-Loretto Coronado, 6 branches (3-2-6-2-1-7)

20 degrees-Cora Gallegos, 4 branches (2-3-9-7)

21 degrees-Desiderio Jesse Gonzalez, 3 branches (6-6-10)

21 degrees-Francisco Felix Rodriguez, 4 branches (2-9-2-9)

22 degrees-Lin-Manuel Miranda, 3 branches (9-3-11)

23 degrees-Sebastian Constantino de Arce, 4 branches (7-6-7-4)

24 degrees-Ramon Lopez, 6 branches (2-2-5-3-5-8)

25 degrees-Enrique Gomez Carrillo, (1-1-6-4-3-11)

28 degrees-Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, 6 branches (6-5-4-3-3-8)

37 degrees-Pancho Villa, 7 branches (4-6-8-5-8-3-4)

Answer 17

16 degrees from Victor Castro, my closest connection this week. 

Usually the Member of the week is related, but this time it's a connection-by-marriage at 32 degrees.

Answer 18

My closest is Victor Castro at 15 degrees but no known relationship.

Answer 19

I'm 7 degrees from Victor Castro.

Answer 20

Haven't updated my tree on here yet, but Sebastián Constantino de Arce is my 7th great-grandfather, through his daughter Thomasa Arce and granddaughter Josefa Marrón.