How are you connected to "Singin' In the Rain" star Gene Kelly?

Question

Hi WikiTreers,

The featured "anchor person" in the global tree this month is Gene Kelly, singer, dancer, actor extraordinaire and star of the musical "Singin' in the Rain".

Thank you to Jamie Nelson and the other Connectors for adding his genealogy as part of this month's Connection Combat: April Showers Showdown - Gene Kelly vs Al Roker.

To see how closely you are connected, click to the Connection Finder and select him from the row of anchor people at the bottom.

Comments

33 degrees through my Dad.

Gene Kelly has always been one of my favorites. Love those old movies!! :-)

Answer 1

Gene Kelly is 39 degrees from me on my husband's side of the family.

Answer 2

36 degrees through my maternal line, if you follow the paper trail.

 

However, I have a shorter alternative pathway of 6 degrees -

Me > my mother, Dixie Harris Heath > her mother, Ruth Ernestine Williams > her brother, Guinn Williams, Jr > worked on You'll Never Get Rich with Fred Astaire > who worked on Ziegfeld Follies with Gene Kelly

Comments

Oh, I should point out that the 36 degrees is through my mother's birth mother.  While the alternative is through my mother's adoptive mother.