Ted B. Danson III
Born 1940s.
Ancestors 
Son of Edward Danson Jr.
and [private mother (1910s - 2000s)]
Brother of
Jessica Danson [half]
[children unknown]
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Biography
Ted Danson is an American actor, known for roles in Cheers, CSI, The Good Place, Damages, as well as many films.
Edward Bridge Danson III was born December 29, 1947 in San Diego, California to Ned Danson and Jessica McMaster. He was raised in Flagstaff, Arizona. He has an older sister. He attended school at Kent, a prep school in Connecticut, where he was a star basketball player. He then attended Stanford University, where he became interested in acting. He transferred and graduated from Carnegie Melon University.
Ted married Randall "Randy" Gosch in 1970. They were divorced in 1975.
Ted married Cassandra "Casey" Coates in 1977. They were divorced 1993. They have two children, one of whom is adopted.
Ted married Mary Steenbergen in 1995. They remain married.
Ted is best known for the role of Sam Malone in the sitcom, Cheers. He was a retired baseball player who tended bar. The show highlighted relationships between Sam and his employees, as well as with his regulars. Though the show got off to a slow start, the series finale in 1993 was the second most watched in TV history at the time.
Sources
See also:
- Wikipedia: Ted Danson
- Wikidata: Item Q381203, en:Wikipedia
- "Puritans and Pioneers." Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (Season 4, Episode 3). PBS. 17 Oct 2017.
- United States Obituary Collection, The Arizona Daily Sun, 13 JAN 2006, Obituary for Jessica MacMaster Danson, Ancestry.com (Online Census Images).
- Phinney, Mary Allen, Allen Genealogy: A Brief History of Lewis Allen (of Fisher's Island and New London, Conn.) and His Descendants . . ., Rutland, Vermont: The Tuttle Publishing Company, Inc. (1954), 148, Heritage Quest (Digital Library).
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Ted by comparing test results with other carriers of his ancestors' Y-chromosome or mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Ted:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Ted by comparing test results with other carriers of his ancestors' Y-chromosome or mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Ted:
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~1.56%
Nicola (Pattenden) Andela
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AncestryDNA, GEDmatch JW1441613 [compare], Ancestry member nandela
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