2022 WikiTree Challenge 11: Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon has ended. Thank you for your participation!! [closed]

Question

Hello WikiTreers!

We mixed things up for #11 of the WikiTree Challenge. This one was a special Year of Family Connections challenge focused on the world's most famous connection anchor, Kevin Bacon. His ancestry was already well-developed on WikiTree, but remarkably, his wider connections were not. There were hundreds of collateral relatives that could be added. We adjusted our scoring for this challenge so that points were awarded for every profile added within six degrees.

To make things interesting, we recorded every single member's connection distance to Kevin Bacon at the start of the week. Then we recorded it at the end of the week. Watch for those results! Whose connection distance shrunk? Whose shrunk the most? Were any members within six degrees? We've had a lot of fun with this.

The week officially began on Thursday, June 2nd at noon EDT (4pm UTC) and ended at noon EDT (4pm UTC) on June 9th. You didn't need any particular research skills to help! Live chat occurred in Discord. So much amazing collaboration went on during the week!

As usual, you guys rocked the week!!! Watch the G2G for the announcement of the next set of video shorts to come out for the challenge. See you next challenge week!

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Has anyone found any Welsh ancestry or connections to Kevin? If so, what parts of Wales?

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I just found John Deere, the tractor guy, connected to the Bacon tree. That was a surprise! He's 8 degrees from Kevin Bacon!

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Deere-10

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@Steven Williams, the closest now seems to be Jones-120382, born 1794 in "Wales", being 7 degrees from Bacon.

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My nearest confident connection to Kevin Bacon is the marriage of his 7th cousin George Crum to my 8th cousin Phyllis Barkell.

However, I have Deere ancestors from Wisbech, Capital of the Fens, in Cambridgeshire.

A Deere family of Sibton, Coastal Suffolk, in the early 1200s, figure in the records of Sibton Abbey that were copied on the instructions of Henry V’s into his early royal records a couple of years prior to Agincourt.

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Connected maternal side.

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Hamilton-7630

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Oddly enough, I went from 19 degrees to 20; however, my relationship changed from 10th cousin, three times removed to 9th cousins twice removed.

Answer 1

Sign me up, please

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Welcome to the Challenge Jennifer! Be sure to check out the WikiTree Discord chat, if you aren't already there. We will be chatting in "current challenge." You can also check out the help page for more information. There are a lot of friendly, helpful people in Discord that can answer any questions. I wouldn't add Bacon profiles until June 2nd, when the challenge week starts

Answer 2

Kevin Bacon?  Who is he anyway?

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Welcome to the Challenge Sharon! Be sure to check out the WikiTree Discord chat, if you aren't already there. We will be chatting in "current challenge." You can also check out the help page for more information. There are a lot of friendly, helpful people in Discord that can answer any questions. I wouldn't add Bacon profiles until June 2nd, when the challenge week starts

Answer 3

Please sign me up for this challenge. Thanks

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Welcome to the Challenge N Gauthier! Be sure to check out the WikiTree Discord chat, if you aren't already there. We will be chatting in "current challenge." You can also check out the help page for more information. There are a lot of friendly, helpful people in Discord that can answer any questions. I wouldn't add Bacon profiles until June 2nd, when the challenge week starts

Answer 4

My profile was already primed.

Not Quite Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon

Porter is 19 degrees from Kevin Bacon.

Porter is the 10th cousin, three times removed of Kevin Bacon.

[The all-important degrees of Bacon separation (connection and relationship)]

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Welcome to the Challenge Porter! Be sure to check out the WikiTree Discord chat, if you aren't already there. We will be chatting in "current challenge." You can also check out the help page for more information. There are a lot of friendly, helpful people in Discord that can answer any questions. I wouldn't add Bacon profiles until June 2nd, when the challenge week starts

Answer 5

I am intersted

I am interested but my time will be divided, my end of semester studies are a priority.

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Welcome to the Challenge Lin! Be sure to check out the WikiTree Discord chat, if you aren't already there. We will be chatting in "current challenge." You can also check out the help page for more information. There are a lot of friendly, helpful people in Discord that can answer any questions. I wouldn't add Bacon profiles until June 2nd, when the challenge week starts

Answer 6

Always looking for new ancestors !! Will be great to see the connection to Kevin. Thanks

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Welcome to the Challenge David! Be sure to check out the WikiTree Discord chat, if you aren't already there. We will be chatting in "current challenge." You can also check out the help page for more information. There are a lot of friendly, helpful people in Discord that can answer any questions. I wouldn't add Bacon profiles until June 2nd, when the challenge week starts

Answer 7

It sounds cool, may I join?  Thanks!

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Welcome to the Challenge Missy! Be sure to check out the WikiTree Discord chat, if you aren't already there. We will be chatting in "current challenge." You can also check out the help page for more information. There are a lot of friendly, helpful people in Discord that can answer any questions. I wouldn't add Bacon profiles until June 2nd, when the challenge week starts

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Answer 8

Yes, I'd like to be added to this Challenge.

Thank you.

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Welcome to the Challenge Amelia! Let me know when you have upgraded to a full member so that I can add your badge. You can return to this post and click on "Answer" instead of "Comment" so that you are fully registered.

Answer 9

Let's do this!

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Welcome to the Challenge Melissa! Be sure to check out the WikiTree Discord chat, if you aren't already there. We will be chatting in "current challenge." You can also check out the help page for more information. There are a lot of friendly, helpful people in Discord that can answer any questions. I wouldn't add Bacon profiles until June 2nd, when the challenge week starts

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Answer 10

Marked my calendar, and ready to go !

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Welcome to the Challenge Michael! Be sure to check out the WikiTree Discord chat, if you aren't already there. We will be chatting in "current challenge." You can also check out the help page for more information. There are a lot of friendly, helpful people in Discord that can answer any questions. I wouldn't add Bacon profiles until June 2nd, when the challenge week starts

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Answer 11

Please include me in the fun activity.

Kathy Bruyere

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Welcome to the Challenge Kathy! Be sure to check out the WikiTree Discord chat, if you aren't already there. We will be chatting in "current challenge." You can also check out the help page for more information. There are a lot of friendly, helpful people in Discord that can answer any questions. I wouldn't add Bacon profiles until June 2nd, when the challenge week starts

Answer 12

28 through Kyra Sedgwick.

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Welcome to the Challenge Geoffrey! Be sure to check out the WikiTree Discord chat, if you aren't already there. We will be chatting in "current challenge." You can also check out the help page for more information. There are a lot of friendly, helpful people in Discord that can answer any questions. I wouldn't add Bacon profiles until June 2nd, when the challenge week starts

Answer 13

Yes, I am interested.  But seems I am closer to his wife Kyra, being 14 cousins 3 times removed then Kevin for 16th cousins twice removed.   Hmmm--I suppose they are related to each other!  I love that feature about Wikitree--I knew my maternal grandparents were related, but seems my paternal ones and my immediate parents were related also through the ages---fascinating.

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Welcome to the Challenge M. Wade! Be sure to check out the WikiTree Discord chat, if you aren't already there. We will be chatting in "current challenge." You can also check out the help page for more information. There are a lot of friendly, helpful people in Discord that can answer any questions. I wouldn't add Bacon profiles until June 2nd, when the challenge week starts

Answer 14

Thank you.

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Welcome to the Challenge Glyn! Be sure to check out the WikiTree Discord chat, if you aren't already there. We will be chatting in "current challenge." You can also check out the help page for more information. There are a lot of friendly, helpful people in Discord that can answer any questions. I wouldn't add Bacon profiles until June 2nd, when the challenge week starts

Answer 15

This is great...I got to meet him a few years ago at work, this will be interesting to see how we are connected.

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Welcome to the Challenge Rick! Be sure to check out the WikiTree Discord chat, if you aren't already there. We will be chatting in "current challenge." You can also check out the help page for more information. There are a lot of friendly, helpful people in Discord that can answer any questions. I wouldn't add Bacon profiles until June 2nd, when the challenge week starts. 

Answer 16

I would love to be apart of this challenge.

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Welcome to the Challenge Roslyn! Be sure to check out the WikiTree Discord chat, if you aren't already there. We will be chatting in "current challenge." You can also check out the help page for more information. There are a lot of friendly, helpful people in Discord that can answer any questions. I wouldn't add Bacon profiles until June 2nd, when the challenge week starts. 

Answer 17

I would love to join please <3

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Welcome to the Challenge Lizzie! Be sure to check out the WikiTree Discord chat, if you aren't already there. We will be chatting in "current challenge." You can also check out the help page for more information. There are a lot of friendly, helpful people in Discord that can answer any questions. I wouldn't add Bacon profiles until June 2nd, when the challenge week starts. 

Answer 18

Yes, an interesting challenge. It is amazing to see how connected people are, even if a very distant connection.

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Welcome to the Challenge Ian! Be sure to check out the WikiTree Discord chat, if you aren't already there. We will be chatting in "current challenge." You can also check out the help page for more information. There are a lot of friendly, helpful people in Discord that can answer any questions. I wouldn't add Bacon profiles until June 2nd, when the challenge week starts. 

Answer 19

Please count me in.

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Welcome to the Challenge Cathy! Be sure to check out the WikiTree Discord chat, if you aren't already there. We will be chatting in "current challenge." You can also check out the help page for more information. There are a lot of friendly, helpful people in Discord that can answer any questions. I wouldn't add Bacon profiles until June 2nd, when the challenge week starts. 

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Thank you, Cheryl.

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My pleasure, Cathy! 

Answer 20

Lets do it.

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Welcome to the Challenge Norman! Be sure to check out the WikiTree Discord chat, if you aren't already there. We will be chatting in "current challenge." You can also check out the help page for more information. There are a lot of friendly, helpful people in Discord that can answer any questions. I wouldn't add Bacon profiles until June 2nd, when the challenge week starts.