Is anyone closer than 19 steps from T.S. Eliot?

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I am19 degrees from T.S. Eliot through my mom's van Skiver ancestors.
WikiTree profile: Thomas Eliot
in The Tree House by David Hughey G2G Astronaut (1.7m points)
I'm 18 steps, and we are 6th cousins, 5x removed.
20 steps, 7th cousins, 4x removed.
12 degrees from T.S. Eliot.

I'm 6th cousin once removed from T.S. Eliot through Sturtevants - Croades - Cushing - Stearns.
18 degrees.  8th cousins,  3 x removed. Both descendants of John Cogswell.
I am the 18th step through a maternal line: Stearns, Read, Radcliff, Stalnaker., great grandmother Celina McWhorter.
9th cousins twice removed apparently.
16 steps
I am his first cousin, twice removed.

I am an electrical engineer.

Wow-- indeed, you are, Frank. cool

24 Answers

+8 votes
17 degrees - through my Schmeeckle kin.
by Sondra Marshall G2G6 Mach 3 (39.1k points)
+7 votes
19 steps for me as well.  We connect through Simon Willard.
by Caryl Ruckert G2G6 Pilot (205k points)
+7 votes

15 degrees and 8th cousin once removed through https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Beers-284

by Alexis Nelson G2G6 Pilot (843k points)
+6 votes
17 degrees and 7th cousins 3 times removed through a PGM ancestor of the Gerrish family.
by Art Black G2G6 Mach 5 (55.4k points)
+6 votes

NOT a genetic relative, but we ARE 16 degrees and only because my cousin Frank Riley-8569 was briefly married to Angela Bigelow-1912.  

Frank is part of the Medlock-Huffman complex laugh 

by Susan Smith G2G6 Pilot (652k points)
+6 votes
T S and Sandra are 9th cousins four times removed

T S Eliot is 19 Degrees from Sandra Vines
by Sandra Vines G2G6 Pilot (132k points)
+5 votes
21 degrees through my Holt line.
by Michelle Enke G2G6 Pilot (417k points)
+4 votes
T S and Mark are 7th cousins five times removed (through Samuel Chaplin) 19 steps
by Mark Wright G2G2 (2.6k points)
+4 votes
Oops, 20 steps for me. T.S. Elliot and I are 11th cousins twice removed. It says uncertain, and the lack of confidence here is on my end this time, not his, at the point of our MRCA.
by Frank Blankenship G2G6 Pilot (125k points)
edited by Frank Blankenship
+4 votes
Wow -- Surprisingly I'm only 15 steps in Connection Finder, and 5th cousins, 4 times removed.
by Ellen Smith G2G Astronaut (1.5m points)
+4 votes
16 degrees, through the Stearns, Pengra and Walker connection.
by Margaret Summitt G2G6 Pilot (315k points)
+4 votes
17 steps, 8th cousins twice removed, descended from Jonathan Wade.

Oddly, I'm also 17 degrees from Walter Howe, but 7th cousins twice removed. This is possibly because the connection can be traced through sisters Jane and Anna Jewett, who both married my 5th great-grandfather, Aquila Pingry, and both contributed to my family tree. The one sister appears in Connection Finder and the other in Relationship Finder. Even so, I don't understand how an 8th cousin 2x removed and a 7th cousin 2x removed can both be 17 degrees distant.
by Leslie Torkelson G2G6 (9.3k points)
edited by Leslie Torkelson
+3 votes
12th cousin, four times removed. 18 degrees through the Connection Finder.
by Pip Sheppard G2G Astronaut (2.7m points)
+3 votes
9th cousin here.
by Leland McCleary G2G1 (1.5k points)
+3 votes
7th cousin 4 times removed.
by Cheryl Skordahl G2G6 Pilot (285k points)
+3 votes
I am 16 degrees from TS Eliot and a direct blood descendant
by Joyce Dodd G2G1 (1.5k points)
+3 votes
I'm 13 degrees
by Michael Sabot G2G6 Mach 1 (12.7k points)
+3 votes

T S Eliot is 15 Degrees from Ramona Pekarek with a Greenleaf-Wheeler connection.

T S and Ramona Eleanor (Larson) Pekarek are 14th cousins three times removed with this common ancestor: Sir John Doddington (c. 1428 - c. 1476) of Nuneham Courtenay, Oxfordshire, England and Stafford, Staffordshire England,  ID: Doddington-3

by Ramona Pekarek G2G4 (4.6k points)
edited by Ramona Pekarek
+2 votes
My wife and TS are 7th cousins, 6 times removed.
by Bart Triesch G2G6 Pilot (268k points)
+2 votes
18 degrees and 9th cousin, 2x removed
by Marj Adams G2G6 Mach 4 (44.1k points)

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