Which female rockstar are you most closely connected to?

Question

With the recent passing of Tina Turner, we're looking at her and other women rockers in the Connection Finder this week:

• Chrissy Amphlett
• Pat Benetar
• Marie Fredricksson
• Joan Jett
• Janice Joplin
• Linda McCartney
• Alanis Morissette
• Stevie Nicks
• Grace Slick
• Nancy Wilson

Which one of these women rockers is closest to you on our single family tree? If you're one of the 29.7 million of us who are connected to each other on our big tree, you can check with the Connection Finder.

In addition to the above and our many Featured Connections, you can check your connections to any category on WikiTree, such as Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Rock Musicians. Click the green MyConnections button in the upper right hand corner of the category page.

Let us know how you're related below. If you want to share your connection on social media with cousins and friends, click the "get shareable image" below the results, e.g. Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz and Tina Turner. Then just upload it along with the URL of your direct connection. (Please refrain from sharing your connection on the featured profiles themselves, though. It clutters conversations on research and collaboration. Thanks!)

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Answer 1

I have 6 cousins on this list: Linda Louise (Eastman) McCartney - 19°
Joan (Larkin) Jett - 22°
Anna Mae (Bullock) Turner - 25°
Christine Joy Amphlett - 27°
Gun-Marie (Fredriksson) Bolyos - 34°

Janis Lyn Joplin - 17° - 9th C
Stevie Nicks - 17° - 9th C 1xR
Grace (Wing) Slick - 17° - 13th C 2xR
Nancy Wilson - 16° - 14th C 3xR   
Alanis Morissette - 21° - 21st C 4xR
Pat (Andrzejewski) Giraldo - 22° - 19th C 1xR

Janis Lyn Joplin & I are related through my Brunson/Parsons/Davis/Weber line.

Stevie Nicks & I are related through my Brunson/Parsons/Davis/Tarpley line.

Grace (Wing) Slick & I are related through my Wilson/Lawson/Palmer/Higginbotham line.

Nancy Wilson & I are related through my Wilson/Lawson/Palmer/Higginbotham line as well.

Alanis Morissette & I are related through my Wilson/Lawson/Palmer/Higginbotham line as well & I am related to our common ancestor, Mathilde (Brabant) de Châtillon 17 different ways.

Pat (Andrzejewski) Giraldo & I are related through my Brunson/Parsons/Davis/Griffin line.

Answer 2

Janice Joplin 18 degrees  15C3R

Answer 3

Janice is my closest cousin being my 8th cousin 2x removed from the profile front page screen - Thomas and Mary Caswell being our shared great grandparents.

From the genealogical relationships link we are 9th cousins sharing Sarah (Day) Kellogg as our eighth great grandmother.

Answer 4

Greetings all...

I have 4 cousins in this group, Janice (closest cousin & connection), Grace, Nancy & Steve.  

Janice Joplin (8c1r), 16^o, 3 branches via my paternal grandfather

Grace Slick (15c4r), 17^o, 2 branches via my maternal grandmother

Nancy Wilson (17c), 19^o, 4 branches via my maternal grandfather

Stevie Nicks (20c), 18^o, 2 branches via my paternal grandfather

Linda McCartney 21^o, 5 branches via my maternal grandmother

Pat Benetar 22^o, 4 branches via my paternal grandmother

Joan Jett 23^o, 5 branches via my paternal grandfather

Alanis Morissette 24^o, 3 branches via my maternal grandmother

Tina Turner 26^o, 6 branches via my paternal grandfather

Chrissy Amphlett 30^o, 6 branches via my paternal grandmother

Marie Fredricksson 34^o, 7 branches via my maternal grandmother

Answer 5

Alanis Morissette and I are 8th cousins.

Comments

hey Judi, we are 8th cousins sharing 77 Ancestors.  

Answer 6

• Alanis Morissette 7th Cousin, sharing 171 common Ancestors, 15 degrees
• Nancy Wilson 8th Cousin, sharing 65 common Ancestors, 16 degress

Answer 7

My closest connection is a tie between 2 relatives: 18 Degrees from Nancy L. Wilson and Stevie L. Nicks!

Relations:

• 19 Degrees from Janis Lyn "Pearl" Joplin (10th C, 1x R).  Our CA is John Marsh (10th GGF)
• 18 Degrees from Nancy L. Wilson (11th C, 1x R).  Our CA is Thomas Kent (11th GGF)
• 22 Degrees from Grace B. Slick formerly Wing (21st C, 3x R).  Our CA's are Isabel le Despenser formerly Beauchamp (23rd GGM) and Alice de St John formerly FitzPiers (24th GGM)
• 20 Degrees from Pat M. Giraldo formerly Andrzejewski aka Benatar (22nd C, 2x R).  Our CA's are Maud Botetourt formerly FitzThomas and Sir John de Botetourt formerly Botetourt (23rd GGP)
• 18 Degrees from Stevie L. Nicks (23rd C, 1x R).  Our CA's are Isabel le Despenser formerly Beauchamp and Sir Hugh "1st Earl of Winchester" le Despenser formerly Despenser (23rd GGP)
• 23 Degrees from Alanis N. Morissette (28th C, 1x R).  Our CA's are Margaretha (Margaret) "Marguerite" Flandre formerly Alsace and Baudouin (Baudouin V-VIII) "Baldwin, Boudewijn, Graaf van Henegouwen, Graaf van Vlaanderen" Hainaut (27th GGP)

Family Connections:

• 20 Degrees from Linda Louise "Lady McCartney" McCartney formerly Eastman
• 22 Degrees from Joan M. Jett formerly Larkin
• 24 Degrees from Christine Joy "Chrissy" Amphlett
• 26 Degrees from Anna Mae (Tina) Turner formerly Bullock
• 32 Degrees from Gun-Marie (Marie) Bolyos formerly Fredriksson

Answer 8

Pat and K are 11th cousins

Janis and K are 9th cousins twice removed

Alanis and K are 11th cousins

Stevie and K are 10th cousins

Grace and K are 14th cousins

Nancy and K are 11th cousins