G2G: Play this week's Irish Connection Checkers game!

Question

We're hoping to share in the luck of the Irish in this week's Irish-themed Connection Checkers game.

To play, first see which of these natives of the Emerald Isle is closest to you on our Big Tree: 

• George Best, renowned football (soccer) player
• Pierce Brosnan, actor known for his time playing "James Bond"
• Kit Coleman, war correspondent
• Charles Duffy, journalist, poet, tenant rights activist, and the 8th Premier of Victoria, Australia
• Georgina Frost, activist whose legal campaign led to the law giving women the right to hold public office
• Anne Grosvenor, Duchess of Westminster and owner of horse Arkle, 3-time winner of the Cheltenham Gold Cup
• C.S. Lewis, author known for the beloved world of Narnia
• Michael Collins (Ó Coileáin), 20th Century Irish revolutionary
• Lady Mary Peirce-Evans, pilot
• George Bernard Shaw, Nobel prize-winning playwright
• Captain Robert Wilson, used his ship to ferry enslaved people on the Underground Railroad
• William Butler Yeats, Nobel prize-winning poet

Second, attempt to verify your connection to one of them. In seven days (March 18), 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 prepare for next week's Gene Hackman feature.

Comments

Dannon, do you mean me? Not sure I understand. And what needs to be fixed?

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Okay, that makes sense. I think many people just think if WT provides a connection path, it's verified, and they just say it's all done here on the main post page for the week. But WT can probably find a connection between any two people about 75% of the time (not sure the number, just guessing, and for people of European descent, it's probably much higher.)  I think the point of the weekly challenge though is to double-check each other's work, mark relationships "confident" for overall accuracy on WT, add sources where they are missing (or in the case of FindAGrave, BillionGraves, Ancestry family trees, or Geneanet, ok to include but not an actual source by itself.)

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I was just wondering if there was a way someone could fix the shortest verified path from the person with 12 steps to me because I submitted my steps into the contest (I had 9 steps) and I had a verified connection but they gave the shortest path to someone else.

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Did you use the Challenge Tracker to record your points?

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No, but I didn’t the last time I got the award. For reference I got an award for shortest verified path for Halloween monsters.

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Based on the last two weeks, I think it's possible that the person in charge of the challenge has changed very recently. So what used fine may not work anymore.  The explanation of how to play says to use the Challege Tracker -- I would think it would be much easier for the person in charge to see who's done what if we all used it and could see everyone's progress on the scoreboard. It's probably mostly for who does the most overall, but, again, it's got to be easier for someone to verify winners if we all played the way it says to.  Unfortunately, the explanation of how to play isn't super obvious for newts.  I think someone should look at rewriting that piece of it as soon as all the new changes to the site are set in stone.

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So does that mean my connection to LM Montgomery doesn’t count?

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It probably still counts.  But as you can see by the start of this discussion, someone was wondering why relationships that someone says they verified aren't marked as "confident."  It kind of defeats the purpose of the game.  

Of course, some of the relationships on your connection path will already be verified, but you should verify any that are not and add your source to the person's profile.  (Points only count for the ones you are able to mark "confident", not any that were already done.)  Then note what you did, save, and the challenge tracker will pop up.  Choose our challenge, click the pop up for the boilerplate language and fill in who you verified.  Save it, and a few minutes later, you'll see yourself on the weekly scoreboard with a(nother) point.

For shortest and longest paths, do the same process and then report your overall verification as an edit on your original answer of who you were going to work on for the week.

As for not winning, maybe since you didn't mark the relationships "confident", they weren't counted since no one could verify your work.

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For those wondering I do the checking and posting of the winners. I can make mistakes and will likely will make more mistakes sometimes. I have fixed the shortest path winner on the comment above and on the winners hall of fame.

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That was nice of you.  I'm sure he appreciated it.  As long as we have you here, is there anything we can do to make the process easier for you?

Answer 1

Top o' the mornin'! My Irish connections are "relatively" sparse; nevertheless, I shall attempt to clear a road to at least one of the following, maybe "Moher".

18 degrees from George Bernard Shaw

19 degrees from C. S. Lewis

19 degrees from Nancy Grosvenor

22 degrees from Catherine Coleman

22 degrees from Mícheál Ó Coileáin

22 degrees from Mary Peirce-Evans

22 degrees from Robert Wilson

22 degrees from William Yeats

23 degrees from Charles Duffy

23 degrees from Georgie Frost

24 degrees from Pierce Brosnan

30 degrees from George Best

Comments

It has been a busy week, but I was finally able to verify all the connections on this 19 degree path from CS Lewis to me. I was skeptical at first that the marriage of his uncle to a Canadian was correct, but it was indeed.

0: C. S. Lewis

1: ↑ Flora Hamilton (his mother)

2: ↔ Augustus Hamilton (her brother)

3: = Annie Harley (his wife)

4: ↑ Sarah Sargeant (her mother)

5: ↑ Moses Sargeant (her father)

6: ↑ Asa Sargeant (his father)

7: ↑ Moses Sargent (his father)

8: ↑ Susanna Peaslee (his mother)

9: ↑ Nathaniel Peaslee (her father)

10: = Abiah Swan (his wife)

11: ↔ Timothy Swan (her brother)

12: ↓ Joshua Swan (his son)

13: ↓ Mary Swan (his daughter)

14: ↓ Lovina Conner (her daughter)

15: ↓ Jane Chandler (her daughter)

16: ↓ James Hannaford (her son)

17: ↓ Paul Hannaford (his son)

18: ↓ Francis Hannaford (his son)

19: ↓ Jean Hannaford (his daughter)

Answer 2

19° Nancy Grosvenor
20° George Bernard Shaw (12th cousin 8xR)
20° Catherine Coleman
20° C.S. Lewis (10th cousin 5xR)
21° Micheal O Coileain
23° Robert Wilson
23° Mary Peirce-Evans (11th cousin 4xR)
25° Charles Duffy
26° William Yeats
26° Georgie Frost
26° George Best
27° Pierce Brosnan

Will try and verify my relationships with George Bernard Shaw and C.S. Lewis - I'm a big fan. Will, also,  try to verify my relationship to Mary Peirce-Evans. Sadly, I had never heard of her but am now intrigued. And, just because I'm crazy for Pierce Brosnan, will attempt to verify a connection, however distant.

Started off with C.S. Lewis. I discovered him in 4th grade when the school librarian suggested I read "The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe." I've since read the Narnia Chronicles multiple times over the ages. As mentioned in the Forward, they were written for children ages 8 to 80. To find out we are 10th cousins is a real honor. Verified him through my direct relationship bringing it to 27°. 

0: C. S. Lewis
1: ↑ Flora Hamilton (his mother)
2: ↑ Mary Warren (her mother)
3: ↑ John Warren (her father)
4: ↑ Mary Bernard (his mother)
5: ↑ James Bernard (her father)
6: ↑ Rose Echlin (his mother)
7: ↑ John Echlin (her father)
8: ↑ Mary Leslie (his mother)
9: ↑ Henry Leslie (her father)
10: ↑ James Leslie (his father)
11: ↑ Agnes Somerville (his mother)
12: ↓ Andrew Leslie (her son)
13: ↓ James Leslie (his son)
14: ↓ Jean Leslie (his daughter)
15: ↓ Alexander Menzies (her son)
16: ↓ Robert Menzies (his son)
17: ↓ Margaret Menzies (his daughter)
18: ↓ Elizabeth Menzies (her daughter)
19: ↓ Margrate Stewart (her daughter)
20: ↓ William Caraway (her son)
21: ↓ Robert Caraway (his son)
22: ↓ John Caraway (his son)
23: ↓ Mary Caraway (his daughter)
24: ↓ Oscar Bryan (her son)
25: ↓ Marie Bryan (his daughter/my grandmother)
26: ↓ Mac Adams (her son/my father)
27: ↓ Debra Adams (his daughter/me)

Went with Anne, Duchess of Westminster Sullivan. The results, at 19°, all verified:

0: Anne, Duchess of Westminster Sullivan
1: = Bendor Grosvenor (her husband)
2: ↑ Sibell Lumley (his mother)
3: ↑ Richard Lumley (her father)
4: ↑ Charlotte Beresford (his mother)
5: = Robert Southwell (her husband)
6: ↑ Frideswide Moore (his mother)
7: ↑ Frideswide Coddington (her mother)
8: ↔ Anne Coddington (her sister)
9: ↓ Richard Fenner (her son)
10: = Anne Geddy (his wife)
11: ↔ Martha Geddy (her sister)
12: ↓ John Marshall (her son)
13: ↓ Pendleton Marshall (his son)
14: = Nancy Barrett (his wife)
15: ↔ Thomas Barrett (her brother)
16: ↓ Robert Barrett (his son)
17: ↓ Mildred Barrett (his daughter/my grandmother)
18: ↓ Carol Collier (her daughter/my mother)
19: ↓ Debra Adams (her daughter/me)

Answer 3

This week, I'm 17º from George Bernard Shaw.  My longest short connection is 31º to George Best.  My longest one using an MRCA is Shaw again at 38º.  I guess I'll start with him.

I've verified:

Anne Grosvenor at 18º

Answer 4

15 degrees from Mary Peirce-Evans, 17th cousin three times removed
18 degrees from Nancy Grosvenor,
18 degrees from Mícheál Ó Coileáin,
19 degrees from C. S. Lewis, 15th cousin five times removed
22 degrees from George Bernard Shaw, 21st cousin 8 times removed
23 degrees from Charles Duffy,
24 degrees from Pierce Brosnan,
25 degrees from Robert Wilson,
25 degrees from William Yeats,
26 degrees from Catherine Coleman,
26 degrees from Georgie Frost,
and 29 degrees from George Best

Comments

0: Mary Peirce-Evans
1: = James Heath (her husband)
2: = Euphemia Van der Byl (his wife)
3: ↑ Pieter Gerhard Van der Byl (her father)
4: ↑ Johanna Isabella van Breda (his mother)
5: ↔ Martha van Breda (her sister)
6: = Gerrit Meyer (her husband)
7: ↔ Jesias Engelbertus Meyer (his brother)
8: ↓ Maria Emerentia Meyer (his daughter)
9: = Ockert du Preez (her husband)
10: ↔ Johannes Theodorus du Preez (his brother)
11: ↓ Catharina Elizabeth du Preez (his daughter)
12: ↓ Johannes Fourie (her son)
13: ↓ Catharina Fourie (his daughter)
14: ↓ <private> van Eck (her son)
15: JJ van Eck (his child)

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0: C. S. Lewis
1: ↑ Flora Hamilton (his mother)
2: ↑ Mary Warren (her mother)
3: ↑ John Warren (her father)
4: ↑ Mary Bernard (his mother)
5: ↑ James Bernard (her father)
6: ↔ Alice Bernard (his sister)
7: ↓ Charles Beamish (her son)
8: ↓ Charles Beamish (his son)
9: ↓ Charles Beamish (his son)
10: ↓ Major Beamish (his son)
11: = Ann Hawkins (his wife)
12: ↔ Frederick Hawkins (her brother)
13: = Susanna Elizabeth Wait (his wife)
14: ↔ Anna Catharina Wait (her sister)
15: = Hercules Petrus Wasserman (her husband)
16: ↔ Engela Wasserman (his sister)
17: ↓ Catharina Fourie (her daughter)
18: ↓ <private> van Eck (her son)
19: JJ van Eck (his child)

Answer 5

My connections this week is :

18 degrees from Nancy Grosvenor.

19 degrees from C.S. Lewis.

24 degrees from Peirce Evans.

24 degrees from George Bernhard Shaw.

26 degrees from Pierce Brosnan.

26 degrees from William Yeats.

27 degrees from Charles Duffy.

27 degrees from Robert Wilson.

28 degrees from Catherine Coleman.

29 degrees Micheal O Coileain.

31 degrees from Georgie Frost.

33 degrees from George Best.

Comments

First l want to verify my connection at 33 degrees to Georg Best.

0. George Ronald Samuel Best (1946 - 2005).

1. Private Person.

2. Their father: Robert William Brough Janes (1918 - 1983).

3.his father: Mark Janes (1878 - ) .

4. his brother: George Janes (1875 - 1929).

5. his wife: Jane Helene (Perrin) Janes (1871 - 1945).

6. her father: Marlow Perri (1839 - 1911).

7. his mother: Mary Ann (Fowler) Perrin (1819 - 1887).

8. her father: William Fowler (1793 - 1875).

9. his father; Thomas Fowler (1758 - 1835).

10. his brother: Nathaniel Fowler (1753 - 1838).

11. his son: Thomas Fowler (1789 - 1862).

12. his son: William Longney Fowler (1830 - 1919).

13. his daughter: Clara Eugenie (Fowler) Bettany (1856 - 1921).

14. her husband: William Frederik Bettany (1880 - 1905).

15. his brother: Charles Horace Bettany (1883 - 1955).

16. his son: Haydn Arpad Buonarroti Bettany (1912 - 1990).

17. his wife: Eunice Dorothea (Ericksen) Bettany (1917 - 1962) (my 7th cousins twice removed).

18. her father: Emmil Ericksen (1884 - 1918).

19. his father: Erick Ericksen (1860 - 1931) (my fifth cousins four times removed).

20. his father: Ole Eriksen (1817 - 1899) (my four cousins five times removed).

21. his father: Erik Olsen (1775 - 1824) (my third cousins 6 times removed).

22. his father: Ole Eriksen (1738 - 1801) (my second cousins 7 times removed).

23. his mother: Lisbet Henningsdatter (1706 - 1742) (my first cousins 8 times removed).

24. her sister: Mari Henningsdatter (ca.1680 - 1735) (my first cousins 8 times removed).

25. her husband: Christen (Hovoldsen) Skansgarden (ca.1665 - 1728) (my Sixth great grandfather).

26. his daughter: Siri Christensdatter Skansgarden (1697 - 1783 (my fifth great grandmother).

27. her daughter: Anne (Andersdatter) Trane - Øktner (my fourth great grandmother).

28. her daughter: Siri Arnesdatter (Haugard) Holen (1765 - ) (my third great grandmother).

29. her daughter: Åse Olsdatter(1795 - 1875) (my second great grandmother).

30. her daughter: Karen Paulsdatter (my first great grandmother).

31. her daughter: Thea (my grandmother).

32. her son: Odd (my father).

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

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Then l will verify my closest connection this week, my 18 degrees from Nancy Grosvenor.

0 Anne Winifred (Sullivan) Grosvenor (1915 - 2003).

1. her husband: Hugh Richard Arthur Grosvenor (1879 - 1953 (my 22nd cousins once removed).

2. his wife: Loelia Mary (Ponsonby) Lindsay (1902 - 1993) (my 20th cousins three times removed).

3. her father: Frederik Edward Grey Ponsonby (1867 - 1935) (my 19th cousins four times removed).

4. his mother: Mary Elisabeth (Bulteel) Pensonby (1832 - 1916) (my 20th cousins three times removed).

5. her mother: Elisabeth (Grey) Bulteel (1798 - 1880) (my 21st cousins 6 times removed).

6. her brother: William George Grey (1819 - 1865) (my 21st cousins 6 times removed).

7. his wife: Katarina Teresia Lovisa Fredrikke Elisabeth von Strdingk (1837 - 1901).

8. her mother: Lovise Regine Isabella von Haxthausen (1801 - 1874).

9. her sister: Juliane Marie (von Haxthausen) Berg (1784 - 1847).

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

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

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

13. his son: Nils Joachim Wessel-Berg (1879 - 1965) (my 6th cousins three times removed).

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

15. his wife: Laila (Hovind) Wessel- Berg (my first cousins, and her husband's 4th cousins once removed).

16. her mother: Borghild Marie(my aunt).

17: her sister: Karen Solveig (my mother).

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

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Then l'll verify my 19 degrees from Clive Staples, which from no.7 has exactly the same persons as from no.6, on my 18th degrees to Nancy Grosvenor, written over here.

0. Clive Staples Lewis (1898 - 1963) (my 23rd cousins four times removed).

1. his mother: Florence Augusta (Hamilton) (1862 - 1908) (my 22nd cousins five times removed).

2. her father: Thomas Robert Hamilton (1826 - 1905) (my 21st cousins 6 times removed).

3. his mother: Elisabeth Anne (Staples) Ponsonby (ca.1795 - ) my 20th cousins 7 times removed).

4. her sister: Frances (Staples) Ponsonby (ca.1776 - ) (my 20th cousins 7 times removed).

5. her husband: Richart Ponsonby DD (1772 - 1853) (my 20th cousins 7 times removed).

6. his sister: Mary Elisabeth (Ponsonby) Grey (1776 - 1861) (my 20th cousins 7 times removed).

7. her son: William George Grey (1819 - 1865) (my 21st cousins 6 times removed), from here it is the same as from no 7, on Nancy Grosvenor's connections.

8. his wife: Katarina Teresa....

Answer 6

I'll try the two 17s. One of them looks like it may be easy.

17 degrees from Nancy Grosvenor
17 degrees from George Bernard Shaw
20 degrees from Catherine Coleman
20 degrees from Mícheál Ó Coileáin
20 degrees from Mary Peirce-Evans
21 degrees from C. S. Lewis
23 degrees from Robert Wilson
23 degrees from Charles Duffy
25 degrees from Pierce Brosnan
25 degrees from Georgie Frost
25 degrees from William Yeats
29 degrees from George Best

Comments

Verified to Anne (Nancy) Sullivan

0. Nancy Sullivan
1. Bendor Grosvenor (her husband)
2. Sibell Lumley (his mother)
3. Aldred Lumley (her brother)
4. Serena Lumley (his daughter)
5. Dorothy Ashton (her sister)
6. Arthur Wellesley (her son)
7. Arthur Wellesley (his son)
8. [private person]
9. Alejandro Santo Domingo (their husband)
10. [private person]
11. Carlos Alejandro Dávila Ordonez (their father)
12. Ida Linderman (his wife)
13. Garrett Linderman (her brother)
14. Stuart Linderman (his son)
15. [private person] (their child)
16. [private person] (their child)
17. me (their spouse)

Answer 7

18 degrees from Nancy Grosvenor

18 degrees from George Bernard Shaw

19 degrees from Catherine Coleman

19 degrees from Robert Wilson

20 degrees from C.S. Lewis 11C4XsR

21 degrees from Michael Collins

22 degrees from Mary Pierce-Evans 13C5XsR

24 degrees from Pierce Brosnan

24 degrees from Charles Duffy

25 degrees from William Butler Yeatts

32 degrees from George Best

Answer 8

18 degrees from Nancy Grosvenor

18 degrees from George Bernard Shaw

19 degrees from Catherine Coleman

19 degrees from Robert Wilson

20 degrees from C.S. Lewis 11C4XsR

21 degrees from Michael Collins

22 degrees from Mary Pierce-Evans 13C5XsR

24 degrees from Pierce Brosnan

24 degrees from Charles Duffy

25 degrees from Georgina Frost

25 degrees from William Butler Yeatts

32 degrees from George Best

Comments

0. George Bernard Shaw

1. George Shaw (his father)

2. Bernard Shaw (his father0

3. William Shaw (his father)

4. Mary Markham (his mother)

5.John Markham (her brother)

6. Rebecca Markham (his daughter)

7. Nelson Patteson (her husband)

8. James Patteson (his father0

9. Obadiah Patteson (his brother)

10. Elizabeth Patteson (his daughter)

11. Nancy Gilliam (her daughter)

12. Walker Dejarnette (her husband)

13. Albert DeJarnette (his son)

14. Walker DeJarnette (his son)

15. Laetitia Blair (his wife)

16. John Blair (her brother)

17. Irene Blair (his daughter)

18. Frank Blankenship (her son)

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0. C. S. Lewis

1. Flora Hamilton (his mother)

2. Thomas Hamilton (her father0

3. Hugh Hamilton (his father)

4. Hugh Hamilton (his father)

5.Alexander Hamilton (his father)

6. Hugh Hamilton (his father)

7. Robert Hamilton (his brother)

8. Agnes Hamilton (his daughter)

9. Eleanor Gilmore (her daughter)

10. William Beattie (her son)

11. Robert Beatie (his son)

12. Paulina White (his wife)

13. Susannah Walker (her mother)

14. Edmund Walker (her brother)

15. Robert Walker (his son)

16. Julia Blair (his wife)

17. Samuel Blair (her brother)

18. John Blair (his son)

19. Irene Blair (his daughter)

20. Frank Blankenship (her son)

Answer 9

None very close this week, which is no surprise - not many Irish people in my ancestors; there are a lot more in the cousins.

18    Michael Collins (Ó Coileáin) [Hannah Moon]
19    Anne Grosvenor [Stephen Maxson]
19    C.S. Lewis [George Drybread]
19    George Bernard Shaw [Edward Boone]
20    Kit Coleman [Joshua Greene]
20    Captain Robert Wilson [Grace Pickering Lupton, no record of daughter Mary]
21    Lady Mary Peirce-Evans [Ruth Bell Marshill]
23    Charles Duffy [Philip Mendenhall]
24    Georgina Frost [Rebecca Pickering, sister of Joshua, married Evan James; this Rebecca is daughter of Samuel Pickering IV and Phebe Kirk: look at dates!]
24    William Butler Yeats [Elizabeth Maxson Stillman]
26    Pierce Brosnan
31    George Best

(One reason I got a computer in the first place is to keep track of all the people with the same names, in New England and among the Friends.)

Answer 10

Hi!  This is my first time posting here.  It’s the first time I have had a connection that is not a surprise to me. It is Lady Mary Peirce-Evans and I have a 9 degree connection to her. She is my third cousin twice removed. I have grown up knowing a few stories about her and at one time I saw an aerial photograph that she was said to have taken of the family farm in Raheenagh, County Limerick.  I am not sure what else I am to do now.

My next two closest connections are: 15 degrees for C. S. Lewis and 16 degrees for George Bernard Shaw.

Comments

Here is my verification for Lady Mary Pierce-Evans:

Sophie Catherine Theresa Mary “Mary” Pierce-Evans (1896-1939)

John “Jackie” Pierce-Evans (1864-1916) her father

Catherine Sophia D’Arcy-Evans (1844-1876) his mother

Thomas D’Arcy Evans (1809-1886) her father

Mary Anne Evans D’Arcy (1809-1877) his sister

Catherine Locke (1834-1910) her daughter

Thomas Sweeney (1856-1928) her son

Catherine Sweeney (1896-1982) his daughter

Ellen “Eileen” Reidy (1925-2005) her daughter

Sharon Cottle  her daughter….Me

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Congrats- best so far by far

Answer 11

Ancestors and Cousins: 

15 degrees - C.S. Lewis - (11C, 5xR)
20 degrees - George Bernard Shaw - (12C, 7xR)
22 degrees - Lady Mary Peirce-Evans - (17C, 2xR)

Connections:

20 degrees - Anne Grosvenor
21 degrees - Charles Duffy
22 degrees - Kit Coleman
22 degrees - Michael Collins (Ó Coileáin)
22 degrees - Robert Wilson
22 degrees - William Butler Yeats
23 degrees - Georgina Frost
25 degrees - Pierce Brosnan
30 degrees - George Best

Answer 12

• 15 degrees from C. S. Lewis
• 29 degrees from George Best
• 19 degrees from Pierce Brosnan
• 22 degrees from Catherine Coleman
• 23 degrees from Charles Duffy
• 18 degrees from Georgie Frost
• 18 degrees from Nancy Grosvenor
• 24 degrees from Mícheál Ó Coileáin
• 18 degrees from Mary Peirce-Evans
• 14 degrees from George Bernard Shaw
• 20 degrees from Robert Wilson
• 23 degrees from William Yeats

I am close to getting closer to CS Lewis but unlikely by the end of this topic but it looks like George Bernard Shaw is the actual closest to verify at this point.  I am sure that 14 in the lead now will  be eclipsed before the close of entries 

Answer 13

20 degrees from Michael Collins - 4 branches (3-3-11-4)

20 degrees from Anne Grosvenor - 7 branches (1-1-1-2-1-2-13)

21 degrees from C.S. Lewis - 3 branches (6-12-4) 12th cousin 5x removed

21 degrees from George Bernard Shaw - 4 branches (9-4-4-5) 22nd cousin 8x removed

21 degrees from Captain Robert Wilson  - 6 branches (3-2-1-2-6-8)

22 degrees from Kit Coleman - 5 branches (1-3-7-6-6)

23 degrees from Lady Mary Peirce-Evans - 6 branches (1-1-2-3-4-13) 13th cousin 4x removed

24 degrees from Pierce Brosnan - 6 branches (1-1-9-5-2-7)

24 degrees from William Butler Yeats - 6 branches (1-2-3-6-7-6)

24 degrees from Georgina Frost - 7 branches (5-4-4-2-5-2-3)

25 degrees from Charles Duffy - 4 branches (2-5-12-7)

31 degrees from George Best - 4 branches (1-4-21-6)

Answer 14

Yes, I have several Irish ancestors on both sides of my family. While the percentage is different among the various genealogy sites I use, it's usually 20% or more.  

This was a surprise since no one ever talked about Irish ancestry with our family oral histories.

Answer 15

This is my first time trying Connection Checkers. I hope I am posting the right thing. I am staring with C.S. Lewis since it is my shortest connection.

23 degrees from C. S. Lewis

23 degrees from George Bernard Shaw

23 degrees from Robert Wilson

24 degrees from Nancy Grosvenor

24 degrees from Mícheál Ó Coileáin

25 degrees from Catherine Coleman

26 degrees from Mary Peirce-Evans

29 degrees from Charles Duffy

29 degrees from Georgie Frost

29 degrees from William Yeats

30 degrees from Pierce Brosnan

33 degrees from George Best

Answer 16

Looks like I have my work cut out to verify the longest path between George Bernard Shaw and me: 53 between him and me with a common ancestor. Much closer if I accept in-laws and siblings as part of the path, but that direct path to a single shared ancestor is long! I may not be able to verify, but it will be fun to try.

Answer 17

First time trying this...I'll have a go at my 25 degree connection to W. B. Yeats, not particularly because it's long or short, but because he's one of my favourite poets.

Answer 18

My longest is George Best-3272 at 29 degrees

My shortest id Ann Sullivan-22038 at 18 degrees.

Both start relationship to me on my Stephens side of family with me and my father.

I am off to verify.

Answer 19

Never played before but I'll try this connection to C.S.Lewis

C. S. and Stephanie are fifth cousins twice removed

1. Clive is the son Florence Augusta (Hamilton) Lewis (1862-1908) 
2. Florence is the daughter Mary (Warren) Hamilton (1826-1916) 
3. Mary is the daughter John Borlase Warren Bt (1800-1863) 
4. John is the son Mary (Bernard) Warren (1760-1825) 
5. Mary is the daughter James Bernard (1729-1790) 
6. James is the son Rose (Echlin) Bernard (abt.1695-) 
This makes Rose the fourth great grandmother of Clive

1. Stephanie is the daughter of Warren Beamish
2. Warren is the son of Bernard Delacour Beamish (1907-1976) 
3. Bernard is the son of Charles Bernard Beamish (1875-1950) 
4. Charles is the son of Albert Beamish (abt.1840-abt.1920)
5. Albert is the son of Charles Beamish (1801-1867)
6. Charles is the son of William Beamish (1760-1828)
7. William is the son of Alice (Bernard) Beamish (-1792)
8. Alice is the daughter of Rose (Echlin) Bernard (abt.1695-)
This makes Rose the sixth great grandmother of Stephanie

Answer 20

Cousins and Ancestors

18 Degrees C.S. Lewis, Lewis-13750, 11c, 3r, Mrca(s) Ryves-16, Wentworth-7

18 Degrees George Bernard Shaw, Shaw-5468, 21c, 5r, Mrca Dunbar-755

23 Degrees Lady Mary Peirce-Evans, 14c, 2r, Mrca(s) Grey-370, Bonville-3

Connections

19 Degrees Nancy (Sullivan) Grosvenor,  Duchess of Westminster, owner of horse Arkle, Sullivan-22038, her husband (cousin), Hugh Richard Arthur (Bendor) Grosvenor, Grosvenor-188, 13c, 2r, Mrca(s) Tailboys-39, Heron-49

20 Degrees Catherine Ferguson

20 Degrees Kit Coleman

21 Degrees Micheal Collins (O Coíleáin)

22 Degrees Captain Robert Wilson

23 Degrees Charles Duffy

23 Degrees William  Butler Yates

24 Degrees Georginia Frost

26 Degrees Pierce Brosnan

30 Degrees George Best