Play this week's Born in '25 Connection Checkers game!

Question

To celebrate the new year, we're featuring notables born in the twenty-fifth year of their century in this week's Connection Checkers game.

To play, first see which of these notables born in '25 is your closest family connection: 

• 1225: St. Thomas Aquinas, theologian known for his enormous work, the Summa Theologica
• 1425: Juana Enríquez, Queen of Aragon
• 1525: William Little, founder, along with his brother, of "King James College," later Edinburgh University
• 1625: Johan de Witt, Dutch statesman and mathematician
• 1625: St. Oliver Plunkett, Irish archbishop and victim of "the Popish Plot"
• 1725: Arthur Guinness, founder of Guinness brewery
• 1825: Catherine Helen Spence, first female political candidate in Australia
• 1825: Joseph-Noël Ritchot, missionary to the Metis
• 1825: Jean Martin Charcot, pioneering neurologist
• 1925: Wally Yonamine, first Japanese-American (US) football player
• 1925: BB King, blues musician
• 1925: Angela Lansbury, actress, especially for Disney, and amateur detective on "Murder, She Wrote"

Second, attempt to verify your connection to one of them. In seven days (January 14), three players will be declared the winners and entered in the Connection Checkers Hall of Fame:

1. The player who has the shortest verified path to one of the connections.
2. The player who has the longest verified path to one of the connections.
3. The player who verifies the most individual connection steps for themselves and by helping others. [current scores]

Please join us, even if you don't know where to begin. Start by simply posting an answer below saying which connection you'll try to verify. Then post updates as comments on your answer. If you get stuck, ask a question and others may be able to help. [more information]

P.S. Help us with our Kings feature for next week.

Answer 1

This week, I am closest to Father Ritchot at 15º.  But it's 18º if I use an MRCA.  I hope to try both.

Comments

Lyn, Father Ritchot is sounds like a fun challenge.  I can't wait to see how it goes.  Happy New Year!

Answer 2

Happy Tuesday! Here are my potential connections to this week's lineup:

13 degrees from Joseph-Noël Ritchot

18 degrees from Arthur Guinness 

18 degrees from Angela Lansbury 

20 degrees from Juana Aragón

20 degrees from William Little 

20 degrees from Wallace Yonamine

21 degrees from Johan de Witt

21 degrees from Oliver Plunkett

24 degrees from Jean Martin Charcot

26 degrees from Catherine Spence

27 degrees from Tommaso d'Aquino

34 degrees from B. B. King

I'll do Ritchot and Plunkett, maybe more.

Comments

Here is a Verified 13-degree path from Pere Ritchot to me. He is my husband's third cousin five times removed.

0: Joseph-Noël Ritchot

1: ↑ Joseph Isaïe Ritchot (his father)

2: ↑ Jean-Baptiste Ritchot (his father)

3: ↑ Pierre Louis Ritchot (his father)

4: ↔ Marie Angelique Ritchot (his sister)

5: ↓ Catherine Pinard (her daughter)

6: ↓ Angelique Catherine Potvin (her daughter)

7: ↓ Catherine Couturier (her daughter)

8: ↓ Dominique Courchesne (her son)

9: ↓ Raoul Courchesne (his son)

10: ↓ Rose Courchesne (his daughter)

11: ↓ Rita Dumais (her daughter)

12: ↓ Anonymous Paradis (her son)

13: = Jean Hannaford (his wife)

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Jean - 13 degrees is great!  Thanks for verifying the Connection!   Happy New Year!

Answer 3

Happy New Year !

My connections are -

Arthur Guinness 20 degrees (closest),

Tomasso d'Acquino 33,

Juana Aragon 26,

Jean Martin Charcot 23,

Johan de Witt 25,

B B King 36,

Angela Lansbury 22,

William Little 26,

Oliver Plunkett 25,

Joseph Noel Ritchott 24,

Catherine Spence 25,

Wallace Yonamine 24.

I will try to verify my closer connections.

Comments

David, we gave you some distant ones this week.  Stop back by and let us know how it's going.  Happy New Year!

Answer 4

16 degrees from Arthur Guinness
19 degrees from Angela Lansbury
19 degrees from Joseph-Noël Ritchot
20 degrees from Oliver Plunkett
21 degrees from Johan de Witt
21 degrees from William Little
22 degrees from Juana Aragón
23 degrees from Wallace Yonamine
24 degrees from Jean Martin Charcot
27 degrees from Catherine Spence
28 degrees from Tommaso d'Aquino
34 degrees from B. B. King

None super close this week. Guinness should be easy to verify, as a lot of it is through a line that's already verified.

Comments

Verified connection to Arthur Guinness

0. Arthur Guinness
1. Arthur Guinness (his son)
2. Benjamin Guinness (his son)
3. Edward Guinness (his son)
4. Rupert Guinness (his son)
5. Brigid Guinness (his daughter)
6. Antonia von Preußen (her daughter)
7. [private person]
8. Alejandro Santo Domingo (their husband)
9. [private person]
10. Carlos Alejandro Dávila Ordonez (their father)
11. Ida Linderman (his wife)
12. Garrett Linderman (her brother)
13. Stuart Linderman (his son)
14. [private person] (their child)
15. [private person] (their child)
16. me (their husband)

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Steve, thanks for verifying Guinness.  We featured him on a WikiTree Bingo in March and worked on a few of his family lines.  Good to know they are in good share.  Happy New Year!

Answer 5

I am 18 degrees from Jean Martin Charcot.

20 degrees from Arthur Guinness.

20 degrees from Johan de Witt.

22 degrees from Juana Aragon (my 13th cousins 14 times removed).

24 degrees from Oliver Plunkett (my 17th cousins 10 times removed).

25 degrees from Angela Lansbury.

25 degrees from William Little.

25 degrees from Joseph Noel Ritchot.

27 degrees from Catherine Spence.

30 degrees from Tommaso d' Aquino.

30 degrees from Wallace Yonamine.

40 degrees from B. B . King.

Comments

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Then I want to verify my 40 Degrees connection from B. B. King

0. Riley Ben King (1925 - 2015).

1. his wife: Martha Lee (Denton) Davison (1929 - 2008).

2. her husband: Rufus Davis (1928 - 1988).

3. his mother: Lorena (Brownlee) Davis (ca.1911 - ).

4. her brother: William Brownlee) ca.1900 - after 1950).

5. his son: William Henry Brownlee Jr. (ca.1916 - 1963).

6. his wife: Helen Elisabeth (Baskin) Brownlee (ca.1909 - 2005).

7. her sister: Mary Nett (Baskin) (1901 - 1990).

8. her husband: Money Crockett (ca.1899 - 1966).

9. his brother: Clayborn Crockett (ca.1909 - 1976).

10. his son: Frank Crockett (1934 - 2005).

11. his wife: Lucy (Milone) Crockett (1935 - 2005).

12. her mother: (Jennie) Giovinina (Fabiano) Milone (1909 - 1941).

13. her sister: Antoinette (Fabiano) Giordano (1901 - 1972).

14. her son: Nick Giordano (1920s)

15. his wife: Betty (Fields) Giordano (1920s) (my 27th cousins).

16. her father: John Candler Fields (1886 - 1928) (my 26th cousins once removed).

17. his father: John Alonso Fields (1851 - 1921).

18. his mother: Cyntha (Cogburn) Fields (1816 - 1863).

19. her father: Archhibald Cogburn(1775 - 1852).

20. his sister: Jerusha Cockburn Blackwell (1777 - 1844).

21. her son John Benjamin Blockwell (bef. 1801 - )

22. his daughter: Elisabeth M. (Blackwell) King (1835 . 1914).

23. her husband: Benjamin Kimsey King (1832 - 1881).

24. his sister: Frances (King) Brown (1815 - 1904).

25. her husband: George Brown (1805 - 1865) (my 21st cousins twice removed).

26. his father: Daniel Morgan Brown (1780 - 1868) (my 20th cousins three times removed).

27. his sister: Elisabeth Little Brown (1792 - 1854) (my 20th cousins three times removed).

28. her daughter: Elisabeth Little (Vance) Topp (1818 - 1895) (my 21th cousins twice removed).

29. her daughter: Catherine Elisabeth (Topp) McKisick (1841 - 1910) (my 22nd cousins once removed).

30. her daughter: Madeline Smythe (Mckisick) Evans (1878 - 1942).

31. her husband: Peder Sather Bruguiere (1875 - 1967) (my third cousins twice removed).

32. his mother: Josephine Frederikke Sather (1845 - 1915) (my second cousins three times removed).

33. her father: Peder (Pedersen) Sather (1810 - 1886) (my first cousins fourt times removed).

34. his father: Peder Larsen Sæter (1768 - 1817) (l am his third great grand niece).

35. his brother: Lars Larsen (Sæter) Vettal (1774 - 1840) (my third great grandfather).

36. his daughter: Anne Larsdatter (Vettal) 1799 - 1875) (my second great grandmother).

37. her son: Anton Gunerius Gulbrandsen (my great grandfather).

38. his daughter: Thea (my grandmother)

39. her son: Odd (my father)

40. his daughter: Me   -    Kari (Nilsen-785) U

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Then l will verify my shortest connection this week - 18 Degrees from Jean Martin Charcot.

0. Jean Martin Charcot (1825 - 1893).

1. his daughter: Marie Amelie Jeanne Claudine Charcot (1845 - ).

2. her husband: Alfred Joseph Charles Felix Pierre Edwards (1856 - 1914).

3. his wife: Maria Sofia Olga Zenajda (Godebska) Sert (1872 - 1950).

4. her husband: Josep Maria Sert (1874 - 1945).

5. his wife: (Roussy), Isabelle Roussadana (Mdivani) Sert (1906 - 1938).

6. her husband: Zerge Zacharie Mdivani (1905 - 1936).

7. his wife: Louise Astor (Van Alen) Sounderson (1910 - 1997) (my 27th cousins).

8. her mother: Margaret Louise (Post) Bruguiere (1876 - 1969).

9. her husband: Louis Sather Bruguiere (1882 - 1954) (my third cousins twice removed).

10. his mother: Josephine Frederikke Sather (1845 - 1915) (my second cousins three times removed).

11. her father: Peder (Pedersen) Sather (1810 - 1886) (my first cousis fourth times removed).

12. his father: Peder Larsen Sæter (1768 - 1817) (l am his third great grand niece).

13. his brother: Lars Larsen (Sæter) Vettal (1774 - 1840) (my third great grandfather).

14. his daughter: Anne Larsdatter (Vettal) 1799 - 1875) (my second great grandmother).

15. her son: Anton Gunerius Gulbrandsen (my great grandfather).

16. his daughter: Thea (my grandmother).

17. her son: Odd (my father).

18. his daughter: Me      -   Kari (Nilsen-785) U.

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I am a big fan of Angela Lansbury, and want to verify my 25 degrees connection to her.

0 Angela Brigid Lansbury (1925 - 2022).

1. her husband: Peter (Pullen) Snaw(1918 - 2003).

2. his mother: Constance Ivy Eleanor White (Borrett) Pullen (1886 - 1933).

3. her sister: Ann Laura (Borrett) White (1868 - 1953).

4. her husband: Herbert Meadows Frith White  (1867 - 1954).

5. his mother: Elisabeth Sarah (Frith) White (død 1905).

6. her mother: Caroline Louisa (Layard) Frith (1809 - 1897).

7. her brother: Frederick Loyard (1823 - 1872)

8. his wife: Rosamund Elisabeth Lloyd (1824 - 1888) (my 23rd cousins four times removed).

9. her brother: Henry Robert Lloyd  (1808 - 1880) (my 23rd cousins four times removed).

10. his wife: Harriet (Grey) Lloyd (1819 - 1887) (my 22nd cousins five times removed).

11. her father: Edward Grey DD (1782 - 1837) (my 21st cousins 6 times removed).

12. his brother: Charles Grey  MP KG (1764 - 1845)  (my 21st cousins 6 times removed).

13. his son: William George Grey  (1819 - 1865)  (my 21 st cousins 6 times removed).

14. his wife: Katarina Teresia Lovisa Fredrika Elisabeth von Stedingk (1857 - 1901).

15. her mother: Lovise Regina Isabella von Haxthausen (1801 - 1874).

16. her sister: Johanne Marie (von Haxthausen) Berg (1784 - 1847).

17. her husband: Jens Christian Nielsen Berg (1775 - 1852).

18. his son: Nils Joachim Wessel-Berg (1807 - 1868) (my 17th cousins 6 times removed).

19. his son: Christian August Wessel-Berg (1841 - 1916) (my  18th cousins five times removed).

20. his son: Nils Joachim Wessel-Berg (1879 - 1865) (my 6th cousins three times removed).

21. his son: Sven Wessel-Berg (1938 - 2007). (my fourth cousins once removed),

22. his wife: Laila Hovind) My first cousins (she is the fourth cousins to her husband).

23. her mother: Borghild ( my mothers tween)

24. her sister Karen (My mother).

25 her daughter:  Me       - Kari (Nilsen-785)  U

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Wow, Kari - you started off with a long connection checkers with BB King.  Great job!   

Not sure if you have snow but rumor has it that I will finally have some snow in two days. Yay!  Happy New Year!

Answer 6

All over the degrees:

17    Arthur Guinness [Mercy Vincent Freeman]
17    Joseph-Noël Ritchot [Jean Baptiste Turgeon]
18    Angela Lansbury [Alexander Hecox]
19    St Oliver Plunkett [Sarah Richard Evan]
21    Juana Enríquez, Queen of Aragon [John Gregg, father of Joseph Gregg]
21    Johan de Witt [Albertus Ringo]
22    Wally Yonamine [William Wilson]
24    Jean Martin Charcot [Edward Boone]
26    Catherine Helen Spence
22    William Little [I have Helen's great-grandfather as Edward Little*]
27    St Thomas Aquinas [Margaret Fogge Stafford]
33    BB King

*source: Adrian Benjamin Burke, "The Livingston Ancestry of the Duncanson Sisters of New Netherland," The Genealogist, 27-28 (April 2013–April 2014). There's also a connection through my brother's daughter-in-law.

Comments

Another week that we are twins PJ.  My connections are all over the place too.  Thanks for mentioning the item about William Little.  Feel free to add the source and comment to the comments on the profile.  Happy New Year!

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Hi Sandy - Happy new year: We really got snow yesterday, it was pouring dawn, but to night and tomorrow rain is predicted, ugh and ugh how slippery it's going to be.

Sandy! (Just wondering), l dont know the system in this, but could it be correct that my points has remained at 102 since the new year, even though there have been many upvotes since then.

Answer 7

Relatives:

Juana of Aragon - 18 degrees (16th great, grandmother)

Oliver Plunkett - 21 degrees (8C14R)

Tomasso d'Aquino - 26 degrees

Connections:

Angela Lansbury - 15 degrees

Arthur Guinness - 17 degrees

Jean Martin Charcot - 19 degrees

Johan de Witt - 19 degrees

Joseph-Noel Ritchot - 20 degrees

William Little - 21 degrees

Catherine Spence - 22 degrees

Wallace Yonamine - 22 degrees

BB King - 33 degrees

Comments

Hi Roger - I hear that the connections for Angela are in pretty good share as well as Guinness, if you want to verify the connections.  Happy New Year!

Answer 8

Here's this week:

• Arthur Guinness 20 degrees
• Timmaso d'Aquino 27 degrees
• Juana Aragon 21 degrees & 3rd cousin 17 times removed.
• Jean Martin Charcot 24 degrees
• Johan de Witt 22 degrees
• B.B. King 31 degrees
• Angela Lansbury 19 degrees
• William Little 20 degrees
• Oliver Plunkett 17 degrees & 6th cousin 15 times removed
• Joseph-Noel Ritchot 19 degrees
• Catherine Spence 24 degrees
• Wallace Yonamine 21 degrees

Comments

1st verification:

     0.  Arthur Guinness

1. his son  John Grattan Guinness
2. his wife Susanna Hutton
3. her father Henry Hutton
4. his brother Joseph Hutton
5. his wife Mary Swanwick
6. her brother Thomas Swanwick
7. his son Francis Swanwick
8. his wife Julia Bond
9. her father Shadrach Bond
10. his father Nicodemus Bond
11. his father Richard Bond
12. his brother Benjamin Bond
13. his daughter Temperance Bond
14. her daughter Ruth Murray
15. her son Mason Dunlap
16. his daughter Elvira Dunlap
17. her son Walter Brafford
18. his son Chauncey Brafford
19. his daughter My Mom
20. her daughter ME

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2nd one:

    0.  Juana Cordoba

1. her son Fernando II Aragon
2. his daughter Catherine of Aragon
3. her daughter Mary Tudor
4. her brother Henry Fitzroy
5. his brother George Tailboys
6. his wife Margaret Skipworth
7. her brother Henry Skipworth
8. his son William Skipworth
9. his son Henry Skipworth
10. his daughter Diana Skipworth
11. her daughter Ellizabeth Dale
12. her husband William Rogers
13. his wife Mary Stott
14. her son William Pullen
15. his daughter Betty Pullen
16. her son Obadiah Hammons Jr
17. his daughter Nancy Hammons
18. her son George Riley
19. his wife Eliza Warren
20. her husband Abraham Jones
21. his son James Jones
22. his son My Dad
23. his daughter ME

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Great job, Judith, and thanks for verifying and sharing!  Who is next on your list?  Happy New Year (and see you during the Thon )

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    0.  Angela Lansbury

1. her husband Roy Radabaugh
2. his father Roy Radabaugh
3. his father George Radabaugh
4. his brother Peter Radabaugh
5. his wife Margaret Parks
6. her mother Nancy West
7. her sister Mary West
8. her son William Tipton
9. his daughter Martha Tipton
10. her husband Sanford Abney
11. his sister Nancy Abney
12. her son Jasper Patrick
13. his daughter Mary Patrick
14. her husband Roy Mills
15. his mother Martha Jones
16. her brother James Jones
17. his son My Dad
18. his daughter ME

Answer 9

Cousins

• 22 degrees from Juana Aragón
  • 9C22R -- MRCA - King Henry II
• 22 degrees from Oliver Plunkett
  • 11C17R -- MRCA - Ela Longespée (abt. 1224 - abt. 1299), James de Audley (abt. 1220 - 1272)

Connections

• 19 degrees from Johan de Witt
• 20 degrees from Angela Lansbury
• 20 degrees from William Little
• 21 degrees from Arthur Guinness
• 21 degrees from Joseph-Noël Ritchot
• 24 degrees from Jean Martin Charcot
• 25 degrees from Wallace Yonamine
• 28 degrees from Catherine Spence
• 29 degrees from Tommaso d'Aquino
• 36 degrees from B. B. King

Answer 10

• 16 degrees from Angela Lansbury
• 18 degrees from Joseph-Noël Ritchot
• 20 degrees from Arthur Guinness
• 21 degrees from Juana Aragón (7C 16xR)
• 21 degrees from Oliver Plunkett (8C 14xR - Uncertain)
• 21 degrees from William Little,
• 22 degrees from Johan de Witt
• 23 degrees from Wallace Yonamine
• 23 degrees from Jean Martin Charcot
• 26 degrees from Catherine Spence
• 27 degrees from Tommaso d'Aquino
• 35 degrees from B. B. King

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0. Angela Lansbury

1.Roy Radabaugh (her husband) - V

2. Roy Radabaugh (his father) - V

3. Sarah Chandler (his mother)

4. Sarah Humiston (her mother)

5. Jason Humiston (her father) - V

6. Hannah Hitchcock (his mother)

7. Thankful Hitchcock (her sister)

8. Eliphalet Parker (her husband)

9. Joanna Parker (his sister)

10. Lydia Bristol (her daughter)

11. Charlotte Page (her daughter)

12. John Robins (her son)

13. Isaac Robins (his son)

14. Wesley Robins (his son) - V

15. Living - V

16.Living - V

Comments

Thanks for verifying and playing Connection Checkers this week, Jennifer!  Which one are you verifying next?  Happy New Year!

Answer 11

Ancestors and Cousins:

20 degrees - St. Oliver Plunkett - (10C, 10xR)
21 degrees - Juana of Aragon - (6C, 17xR)

Connections:

10 degrees - Joseph-Noël Ritchot - 3 branches (3-7-1)
17 degrees - Angela Lansbury - 3 branches (1-2-15)
18 degrees - Arthur Guinness - 4 branches (3-6-5-5)
19 degrees - William Little - 2 branches (9-11)
21 degrees - Johan de Witt - 3 branches (5-5-12)
22 degrees - Wallace Yonamine - 3 branches (4-16-3)
24 degrees - Jean Martin Charcot - 3 branches (2-3-20)
26 degrees - Catherine Helen Spence - 5 branches (3-4-3-6-11)
28 degrees - St. Thomas Aquinas - 1 branch (29)
34 degrees - BB King - 8 branches (1-1-4-2-3-4-7-13)

Comments

Joseph-Noël Richot - verified

3 Branches: (3-7-1)
Branch 1: Ritchot (1), Riopel (2)
Branch 2: Forêt (3), Jalbert (2), Volante (1), Feather (1)
Branch 3: Sayers-Howell (1)

0. Joseph-Noël Ritchot - no relationship
1. ↑ Marie Josephe Riopel (his mother) - no relationship
2. ↔ Joseph Riopel (her brother) - no relationship
3. = Marie Anne Forêt (his wife) - 16C, 6xR
4. ↔ Louis Forêt (her brother) - 16C, 6xR
5. ↓ Adeline Forêt (his daughter) - 17C, 5xR
6. ↓ Jasper Jalbert (her son) - 18C, 4xR
7. ↓ Marie Jalbert (his daughter) - 19C, 3xR
8. ↓ Virginia Volante (her daughter) - 20C, 2xR
9. ↓ Steve Feather (her son) - 21C, 1xR + my husband 
10. = Shonda Sayers-Howell (his wife) 

Joseph was my late husband's 2nd cousin, 5x removed.

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Juana of Aragon - verified

2 Branches: (3-19)
Branch 1: Córdoba (1), Aragón (2)
Branch 2: Tudor (2), Stewart (3), Drummond (1), Ogilvy (2), Falconer/Falconar (4), Barnes (1), Mount (1), Howell (5)

0. Juana of Aragon - 6C, 17xR
1. ↓ Fernando de Aragón (her son) - 5C, 17xR
2. ↓ Catherine Aragón (his daughter) - 3C, 16xR
3. = Henry Tudor (her husband) - 3C, 15xR
4. ↔ Margaret Tudor (his sister) - 3C, 15xR
5. ↓ Alexander Stewart (her son) - 13th great granduncle
6. ↔ Margaret Stewart (his sister) - 13th great grandmother
7. ↓ Margaret Stewart (her daughter) - 12th great grandmother
8. ↓ Sibilla Drummond (her daughter) - 11th great grandmother
9. ↓ John Ogilvy (her son) - 10th great grandfather
10. ↓ Sibilla Ogilvy (his daughter) - 9th great grandmother
11. ↓ David Falconer (her son) - 8th great grandfather
12. ↓ Alexander Falconer (his son) - 7th great grandfather
13. ↓ Alexander Falconer (his son) 6th great grandfather
14. ↓ Charity Falconer (his daughter) - 5th great grandmother
15. ↓ Nancy Barnes (her daughter) - 4th great grandmother
16. ↓ Eliza Mount (her daughter) - 3rd great grandmother
17. ↓ Arthur Howell (her son) - 2nd great grandfather
18. ↓ James Howell (his son) - great grandfather
19. ↓ Elmer Sayers-Howell (his son) - grandfather
20. ↓ Larry Sayers-Howell (his son) - father
21. ↓ Shonda Sayers-Howell (his daughter)

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Happy New Year, Shonda!   I think, so far, 10 degrees is the lowest.  Thanks for verifying and playing Connection Checkers this week.

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Happy New Year, Sandy! I was shocked when I saw that I was only 10 degrees. Knew it had to be through my husband before I even looked. 

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And I hate this month as it is the death anniversaries of my mother and my husband. 

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Juana of Aragon (common ancestor connection) - verified

1 Branch (32)
Branch 1: Córdoba (1), de Mendoza (1), de Castilla y Leon (1), Trastámara (1), Castilla (1), Portugal (1), Aragón (1), Staufer (1), Sicilia (2), Wittelbach (2), Hohenzollern (1), Brandenburg-Kulmbach (1), Oldenburg (1), Stewart (3), Drummond (1), Ogilvy (2), Falconer/Falconar (4), Barnes (1), Mount (1), Howell (5)

0. Juana Córdoba - 6C, 17xR
1. ↑ Fadrique Enríquez de Mendoza (her father) - 5C, 18xR
2. ↑ Alfonso Enriquez de Castilla y Leon (his father) - 4C, 19xR
3. ↑ Fadrique Trastámara (his father) - 3C, 20xR
4. ↑ Alfonso XI Castilla (his father) - 2C, 21xR
5. ↑ Contança Portugal (his mother) - 1C, 22xR
6. ↑ Elizabeth Aragón (her mother) - 21st great grandaunt
7. ↑ Contanza Staufer (her mother) - 22nd great grandmother
8. ↓ Federico III Sicilia (her son) - 21st great grandfather
9. ↓ Elisabetta Sicilia (his daughter) - 20th great grandmother
10. ↓ Friedrich Wittelsbach (her son) - 19th great grandfather
11. ↓ Elisabeth Wittelsbach (his daughter) - 18th great grandmother
12. ↓ Johann Hohenzollern (her son) - 17th great grandfather
13. ↓ Dorothea Bradenburg-Kulmbach (his daughter) - 16th great grandmother
14. ↓ Margaret Oldenburg (her daughter) - 15th great grandmother
15. ↓ James IV Stewart (her son) - 14th great grandfather
16. ↓ Margaret Stewart (his daughter) - 13th great grandmother
17. ↓ Margaret Stewart (her daughter) - 12th great grandmother
18. ↓ Sibilla Drummond (her daughter) - 11th great grandmother
19. ↓ John Ogilvy (her son) - 10th great grandfather
20. ↓ Sibilla Ogilvy (his daughter) - 9th great grandmother
21. ↓ David Falconer (her son) - 8th great grandfather
22. ↓ Alexander Falconer (his son) - 7th great grandfather
23. ↓ Alexander Falconer (his son) 6th great grandfather
24. ↓ Charity Falconer (his daughter) - 5th great grandmother
25. ↓ Nancy Barnes (her daughter) - 4th great grandmother
26. ↓ Eliza Mount (her daughter) - 3rd great grandmother
27. ↓ Arthur Howell (her son) - 2nd great grandfather
28. ↓ James Howell (his son) - great grandfather
29. ↓ Elmer Sayers-Howell (his son) - grandfather
30. ↓ Larry Sayers-Howell (his son) - father
31. ↓ Shonda Sayers-Howell (his daughter)

Answer 12

Steven is

• 18 degrees from Joseph-Noël Ritchot
• 20 degrees from Angela Lansbury (she married my 7C 5R LeRoy Melvin Radabaugh aka "Richard Cromwell")
• 22 degrees from Arthur Guinness
• 23 degrees from William Little
• 24 degrees from Johan de Witt
• 24 degrees from Wallace Yonamine
• 25 degrees from Juana Aragón
• 25 degrees from Jean Martin Charcot
• 25 degrees from Oliver Plunkett
• 31 degrees from Catherine Spence
• 31 degrees from Tommaso d'Aquino
• 35 degrees from B. B. King

Comments

Happy New Year, Mr. Greenwood.  I am loving the colors you added to your list.  Which one did you want to verify this week for Connection Checkers?  Guinness might work well with my bucket list item that I'm dragging you along with.

Answer 13

16 degrees from Arthur Guinness,
18 degrees from Angela Lansbury,
20 degrees from William Little,
21 degrees from Catherine Spence
22 degrees from Johan de Witt,
23 degrees from Oliver Plunkett, 9th cousin 13 times removed
23 degrees from Juana Aragón, 3rd cousin 20 times removed
23 degrees from Jean Martin Charcot,
24 degrees from Joseph-Noël Ritchot,
26 degrees from Wallace Yonamine,
30 degrees from Tommaso d'Aquino and
40 degrees from B. B. King,

Comments

Happy New Year, JJ!   I think that Guinness and Lansbury are in pretty great shape for verifying the connections this week.  Thanks for sharing your connections.

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0: Angela Lansbury
1: ↑ Charlotte McIldowie (her mother)
2: ↑ William McIldowie (her father)
3: ↔ John McIldowie (his brother)
4: ↓ Denis McIldowie (his son)
5: = Louis Anne Smuts (his wife)
6: ↑ Sybella Margaretha Krige (her mother)
7: ↑ Jacob Daniel Krige (her father)
8: ↔ Maria Wilhelmina Krige (his sister)
9: = Albertus Gerhardus Schonken (her husband)
10: ↑ Hester Van Niekerk (his mother)
11: ↑ Maria Magdalena Robbertse (her mother)
12: ↔ Joseph Robberts (her brother)
13: = Sophia Jacoba Vrey (his wife)
14: ↔ Maria Vrey (her sister)
15: ↓ <private> van Eck (her son)
16: ↓ <private> (his son)
17: ↓ <private> van Eck (his son)
18: JJ van Eck (his child)

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0: Catherine Spence
1: ↔ John Spence (her brother)
2: ↓ Margaret Spence (his daughter)
3: = George Stephen (her husband)
4: ↑ George Stephen (his father)
5: ↔ Ann Stephen (his sister)
6: ↓ Drummond Dunbar (her son)
7: ↓ Mary Annette Dunbar (his daughter)
8: ↓ Gladys Marion Annette Dunbar-Anderson (her daughter)
9: = Renault Berthold De St John Krige (her husband)
10: ↑ Anna Jacoba Marthina van der Riet (his mother)
11: ↔ William Christiaan Carl van der Riet (her brother)
12: = Johanna Sophia Haupt (his wife)
13: ↑ Carel Albregt Haupt (her father)
14: ↑ Sophia Botha (his mother)
15: ↔ Cornelis Johannes Botha (her brother)
16: ↓ Cornelia Botha (his daughter)
17: ↓ Willem Lodewyk Petrus Fourie (her son)
18: ↓ <private> Fourie (his son)
19: ↓ <private> Fourie (his daughter)
20: ↓ <private> van Eck (her son)
21: JJ van Eck (his child)

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0: Jean Martin Charcot
1: ↓ Jean-Baptiste Charcot (his son)
2: = Jeanne Hugo (his wife)
3: ↔ Georges Hugo (her brother)
4: ↓ Jean Hugo (his son)
5: = Lauretta Hope-Nicholson (his wife)
6: ↑ Jacqueline Hope (her mother)
7: ↑ Adrian Hope (her father)
8: ↑ William Hope (his father)
9: ↑ John Hope (his father)
10: ↑ Charlotte Hope (his mother)
11: ↔ Margaret Hope (her sister)
12: ↓ Peter Maclean (her son)
13: = Elizabeth Somerset (his wife)
14: ↑ Frances Heathcote (her mother)
15: ↔ Harriet Heathcote (her sister)
16: = Ignatius van Rooyen (her husband)
17: = Anna Carolina du Plessis (his wife)
18: ↔ Sarel Petrus du Plessis (her brother)
19: ↓ Engela Jacoba Du Plessis (his daughter)
20: ↓ <private> Wasserman (her daughter)
21: ↓ <private> Fourie (her daughter)
22: ↓ <private> van Eck (her son)
23: JJ van Eck (his child)

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0: Oliver Plunkett
1: ↑ John Plunkett (his father)
2: ↔ Christopher Plunkett (his brother)
3: ↓ Nicholas Plunkett (his son)
4: ↓ Jane Plunkett (his daughter)
5: = Valentine Browne (her husband)
6: ↑ Mary MacCarty (his mother)
7: ↔ Ellinor MacCarthy (her sister)
8: ↓ Donall Reagh (her son)
9: = Mary Townsend (his wife)
10: ↓ William Beamish (her son)
11: ↓ Charles Beamish (his son)
12: ↓ Charles Beamish (his son)
13: ↓ Charles Beamish (his son)
14: ↓ Major Beamish (his son)
15: = Ann Hawkins (his wife)
16: ↔ Frederick Hawkins (her brother)
17: = Susanna Elizabeth Wait (his wife)
18: ↔ Anna Catharina Wait (her sister)
19: = Hercules Petrus Wasserman (her husband)
20: ↔ <private> Wasserman (his sister)
21: ↓ <private> Fourie (her daughter)
22: ↓ <private> van Eck (her son)
23: JJ van Eck (his child)

Answer 14

12 degrees from Arthur Guinness.

• 12 degrees from Arthur Guinness
• 27 degrees from Tommaso d'Aquino
• 19 degrees from Juana Aragón
• 20 degrees from Jean Martin Charcot
• 17 degrees from Johan de Witt
• 35 degrees from B. B. King
• 17 degrees from Angela Lansbury
• 19 degrees from William Little
• 19 degrees from Oliver Plunkett
• 22 degrees from Joseph-Noël Ritchot
• 20 degrees from Catherine Spence
• 25 degrees from Wallace Yonamine

Comments

Oooh, Henry, 12 degrees is a low one this week.  Did you want to verify the steps for Connection Checkers this week?  Happy New Year!

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They are all now verified!

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Wow!!! That is fantastic!   Way to go, Henry!

Eek! I'm still trying to add sources and verify my first connection.

Answer 15

14 degrees from Joseph-Nöel Ritchot - 1 branch (15) 4th cousin 5x removed

18 degrees from Angela Lansbury - 5 branches (2-1-4-5-7)

19 degrees from Arthur Guinness - 4 branches (5-3-4-8)

21 degrees from St. Oliver Plunkett - 3 branches (13-2-7) 10th cousin 13x removed

23 degrees from Juana Enríquez - 2 branches (7-17) 7th cousin 9x removed

23 degrees from Johan de Witt - 4 branches (5-10-6-3)

24 degrees from Wally Yonamine - 3 branches (4-17-4)

24 degrees from Jean Martin Charcot - 4 branches (2-1-6-16)

24 degrees from William Little - 5 branches (8-5-3-5-4)

27 degrees from Catherine Helen Spence - 6 branches (3-4-6-6-4-5)

29 degrees from St. Thomas Aquinas - 2 branches (23-7)

33 degrees from BB King - 9 branches (1-1-4-2-3-4-6-3-10)

Comments

Hi Marcia.  I love the way you always display your connections.  Very cool to see Ritchot is 1 branch.   Happy New Year!

Answer 16

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22 degrees from Juana Aragón 9Cx18

23 degrees from Oliver Plunkett 11Cx12

Comments

Hi John and Happy New Year!  Are those the two you verified this week?  If yes, great choices!

Answer 17

I'm baaack..... a small work related absence last week but I'm back and ready to play Connection Checkers.

I'm going to start with Angela Lansbury.
 

Angela Lansbury	17 degrees
Oliver Plunkett	19 degrees
Joseph-Noël Ritchot	20 degrees
Johan de Witt	21 degrees
Arthur Guinness	21 degrees
Wallace Yonamine	22 degrees
William Little	22 degrees
Juana Aragón	22 degrees
Jean Martin Charcot	23 degrees
Catherine Spence	24 degrees
Tommaso d'Aquino	28 degrees
B. B. King	32 degrees

Comments

Happy New Year, Sandy! Glad to see you're back!

Answer 18

Father Ritchot and I are 5th cousins four times removed: Ritchot-72 and Campbell-62501.

We are both descendants of Marguerite Thomas abt. 1634- 1695. (Thomas-1063)  Marguerite Thomas was a Fille a Marier..  She was the fourth great-grandmother of Jseph Ritchot and my eighth great grandmother.

 We also have at least five other ancestors in common.

Answer 19

Amazing
Arthur Guinness Success
Juana Aragon Success
Angela Lansbury Success
Oliver Plunkett Success
Catherine Spence Success
B B King Fail
William Little Fail.
Jean Martin Charcot Fail
Noel-Joseph Ritchot  Success

Answer 20

Not close connection on any of them, so I chose Juana Cordoba - 3rd cousin x 21 (32 degrees). Went with the connection through common ancestor option so I can add her to my various trees. All were verified, though I did have to use the Challenge Tracker for most as I'm not pre-1500 certified. So, here goes:

0. Juana Cordoba
1. Fadrique Enriquez de Mendoza - her father
2. Alfonso Enriquez de Castilla y Leon - his father
3. Fadrique Trastamara - his father
4. Alfonso XI Castilla - his father
5. Fernando IV Castilla - his father
6. Sancho IV Castilla - his father
7. Alfonso X Castilla - his father
8. Fernando III Castilla - his father
9. Eleanor Castilla - his daughter
10. Edward II Plantagenet - her son
11. Edward III Plantagenet - his son
12. John Plantagenet - his son
13. John Beaufort - his son
14. Joan Beaufort - his daughter
15. John Stewart - her son
16. John Stewart - his son
17. John Stewart - his son
18. Barbara Stewart - his daughter
19. Alexander Menzies - her son
20. William Menzies - his son
21. Robert Menzies - his son
22. Duncan Menzies - his son
23. Elizabeth Menzies - his daughter
24. Margrate Stewart - her daughter
25. William Caraway - her son
26. Robert Caraway - his son
27. John Caraway - his son
28. Mary Caraway - his daughter
29. Oscar Bryan - her son
30. Marie Bryan - his daughter/my grandmother
31. Mac Adams - her son/my father
32. Debra Adams - me