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Famous people I am related to
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Joshua Richards
We are related to people who sailed on the Mayflower, as well as many U.S. Presidents, pioneers, and actors!
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My 8th great-grandfather
John Alden
Also known as “Fritz the night owl” he hosted “night owl jazz” on the radio and also did pledges on PBS. He is my uncle on my dad's side.
Frederick C. Peerenboom
My 3rd cousin eight times removed
George Washington
My 7th cousin three times removed
C. I. Scofield
My wife's 10th cousin twice removed
Maryanne Trump Barry
My 8th cousin once removed
Billy Graham
My 2nd cousin twelve times removed
King James IV of Scotland
The husband of my 4th cousin five times removed
Robert E. Lee
My 2nd cousin fourteen times removed
John Rogers (Bible editor and martyr)
The husband of my 8th cousin three times removed
Michael Landon
My 7th cousin twice removed
Laura Ingalls Wilder
My 14th great granduncle
John Calvin
My 5th cousin ten times removed
George Whitefield
The husband of my 7th cousin five times removed
J. C. Ryle
My 8th cousin seven times removed
Matthew Henry
My 14th cousin once removed
Charles Spurgeon
My 3rd cousin six times removed
John Adams
My 3rd cousin six times removed
James Madison
My 3rd cousin seven times removed
Ulysses S. Grant
My 3rd cousin ten times removed
John Robinson (pastor)
My 4th cousin five times removed
John Quincy Adams
My 4th cousin five times removed
Zachary Taylor
My 5th cousin five times removed
Franklin Pierce
My 5th cousin five times removed
Abraham Lincoln
My 7th cousin six times removed
William Henry Harrison
My 6th cousin four times removed
Rutherford B. Hayes
My 6th cousin four times removed
Millard Fillmore
My 6th cousin seven times removed
Martin Van Buren
My 6th cousin seven times removed
Thomas Jefferson
My 6th cousin seven times removed
Andrew Jackson
My 7th cousin twice removed
Warren G. Harding
My 7th cousin twice removed
Franklin D. Roosevelt
My 7th cousin three times removed
Winston Churchill
My 7th cousin three times removed
Benjamin Harrison
My 7th cousin three times removed
James A. Garfield
My 7th cousin three times removed
James K. Polk
My 7th cousin four times removed
Calvin Coolidge
My 8th cousin three times removed
John Tyler
My 8th cousin twice removed
Herbert Hoover
My 8th cousin three times removed
Theodore Roosevelt
My 8th cousin five times removed
James Buchanan
My 12th cousin
Harry S. Truman
My 8th cousin six times removed
Marie Antoinette
My 9th cousin
Diana, Princess of Wales
My 9th cousin once removed
Richard Nixon
My 9th cousin twice removed
William Howard Taft
My 10th cousin twice removed
William McKinley
My 10th cousin four times removed
Queen Victoria
My 10th cousin four times removed
Dwight D. Eisenhower
My 11th cousin
Lyndon B. Johnson
My 12th cousin twice removed
Haakon VII
My 13th cousin once removed
John F. Kennedy
My 14th cousin
Herman Fredrik Zeiner-Gundersen
My 5th cousin five times removed
Samuel Morse
My 6th cousin three times removed
Thomas Edison
My 6th cousin five times removed
Eli Whitney
My 6th cousin six times removed
Adam Smith: The Pioneer of Economics and Scottish Enlightenment
My 6th cousin seven times removed
Edward Jenner
My 7th cousin three times removed
Wilbur Wright
My 7th cousin three times removed
Orville Wright
My 7th cousin three times removed
John Browning
My 8th cousin three times removed
Jonathan Browning (inventor)
My 9th cousin once removed
Robert B. Ingebretsen
My 9th cousin once removed
Philo Farnsworth
My 9th cousin four times removed
William Clayton (Inventor of Odometer)
My 10th cousin three times removed
Walter Chrysler
My 11th cousin twice removed
Alexander Graham Bell
My 11th cousin twice removed
John Dunlop (invented first pneumatic tire)
My 11th cousin three times removed
Alexander Fleming (and Development of Penicillin)
My 5th cousin six times removed
Annie Oakley
My 5th cousin seven times removed
Jane Austen
My 6th cousin three times removed
Buffalo Bill
My 7th cousin once removed
Katharine Hepburn
My 7th cousin three times removed
Emily Dickinson
My 7th cousin four times removed
Henry David Thoreau
My 7th cousin five times removed
Edgar Allan Poe
My 7th cousin seven times removed
Jonathan Swift
My 8th cousin once removed
Lucille Ball (I Love Lucy actress)
My 8th cousin twice removed
T. S. Eliot
My 8th cousin twice removed
Agatha Christie
My 9th cousin
Marilyn Monroe
My 9th cousin
Cecil B. DeMille
My 9th cousin once removed
Bing Crosby
My 9th cousin once removed
Shirley Temple
My 9th cousin twice removed
Jackson Pollock (painter)
My 9th cousin three times removed
Nathaniel Hawthorne
My 9th cousin four times removed
Robert Louis Stevenson (author)
My 9th cousin five times removed
Camilla Collett
My 10th cousin once removed
Elvis Presley
My 10th cousin once removed
Walt Disney
My 10th cousin once removed
Buster Keaton
My 10th cousin three times removed
Peter O'Toole
My 11th cousin
John Wayne
My 12th cousin once removed
George Harrison
My 12th cousin once removed
John Lennon
My 12th cousin twice removed
Audrey Hepburn
My 12th cousin twice removed
Olaf Bull (poet and writer)
My 13th cousin
Bob Marley
My 13th cousin once removed
Mark Twain
My 8th great-granduncle
John Cooke - MayflowerHistory.com
My 8th great-granduncle
Giles Hopkins - MayflowerHistory.com
My 8th great-grandaunt
Constance Hopkins
My 8th great-granduncle
Gilbert Winslow - MayflowerHistory.com
My 8th great-granduncle
Edward Winslow
My 9th great-granduncle
Edward Tilley
My 9th great-granduncle
Isaac Allerton - MayflowerHistory.com
My 1st cousin ten times removed
Remember Allerton— MayflowerHistory.com
My 1st cousin ten times removed
Mary Allerton
My 1st cousin ten times removed
Bartholomew Allerton- MayflowerHistory.com
My 2nd cousin twelve times removed
James Chilton
My 3rd cousin ten times removed
Katherine (White) (Leggett) Carver - MayflowerHistory.com
My 4th cousin nine times removed
Jasper More | Mayflower Heritage and History
My 4th cousin nine times removed
Richard More (Mayflower passenger)
My 4th cousin nine times removed
Mary More | Mayflower Heritage and History
My 3rd cousin eleven times removed
Mary Chilton
My 8th great-grandmother
Elizabeth Tilley
My 8th great-grandfather
John Howland
My 9th great-grandmother
Alice Mullins— MayflowerHistory.com
My 9th great-grandfather
William Mullins (Mayflower passenger)
My 9th great-grandfather
John Tilley (Mayflower passenger)
My 9th great-grandfather
Francis Cooke
My 9th great-grandmother
Joan (Hurst) (Rogers) Tilley - MayflowerHistory.com
My 9th great-grandfather
Stephen Hopkins (pilgrim)
My 9th great-grandmother
Elizabeth (Fisher) Hopkins - MayflowerHistory.com
My 9th great-grandfather
Degory Priest
My 12th great-grandfather
Richard Warren
My 4th cousin nine times removed
Ellen More | Mayflower Heritage and History
My 7th cousin six times removed
Ann Smith Franklin (first female newspaper editor)
My 8th cousin twice removed
Helen Keller
My 9th cousin
Amelia Earhart
My 9th cousin twice removed
Robert Peary (first person to reach geographic north pole)
My 11th cousin once removed
Charles Lindbergh
My 12th cousin once removed
Neil Armstrong
My 12th cousin twice removed
Francis Eaton (Mayflower passenger)
My 13th cousin once removed
Samuel Eaton- MayflowerHistory.com
My 13th cousin once removed
Robert Baden-Powell, (Boy Scouts founder)
My 8th cousin
Gordie Howe (hockey player)
My 12th cousin once removed
Sugar Ray Robinson (boxer)
My 12th cousin once removed
Don Bradman (cricket)
My 12th cousin twice removed
Babe Ruth
My 12th cousin twice removed
Roger Bannister (first sub-4 minute mile runner)
My 13th cousin once removed
Alfredo Di Stefano (football)
My 13th cousin once removed
Jim Clark (race car driver)
