Which Mayflower Passenger and First Thanksgiving Attendee are you most closely connected to?

Question

The US is set to celebrate Thanksgiving this Thursday, so we're looking at one of the events that inspired the national holiday, the first Thanksgiving held at Plymouth Colony.

All our featured connections are Mayflower passengers, starting with Richard Warren. He is special for genealogists because he has the most living descendants. Here are the other passengers we're including in the Connection Finder:

• Elinor Armstrong
• William Bradford
• Mary Brewster
• Edward Doty
• Samuel Fuller
• Elizabeth Hopkins
• Remember Maverick
• John Alden
• Capt. Richard More
• Myles Standish
• Susanna Winslow

Which of these is closest to you on our single family tree? If you're one of the 31.2 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 Mayflower Compact Signatories, Mayflower Passengers, and Massachusetts Bay Colonists. 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. John F. Kennedy and Richard Warren. 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!)

Help us find and improve the profiles for next week's feature on Rosalynn Carter and First Ladies.

Comments

I am 13 degrees from John Alden, I am a registered descendant with the Mayflower Society.

Answer 1

I am most closely connected to Mary Brewster, Edward Doty, Myles Standish and Susanna Winslow at 16 degrees of separation.

Cousin:

• 19 degrees from Richard More (5C, 12R)

No Relationship Found:

• 16 degrees from Mary Brewster
• 16 degrees from Edward Doty
• 16 degrees from Myles Standish
• 16 degrees from Susanna Winslow
• 17 degrees from John Alden
• 17 degrees from William Bradford
• 17 degrees from Richard Warren
• 18 degrees from Elinor Armstrong
• 18 degrees from Samuel Fuller
• 18 degrees from Elizabeth Hopkins
• 18 degrees from Remember Maverick

Comments

I do not know because my Mom was adopted by my maternal Grandfather. I have always known my biological  Grandfather 's name, but only recently started building a little "tree" to look into that side.

Answer 2

Richard More-7c11r

I am more connected to the first sit-down dinner with the indigenous people where they saved the European immigrants from starvation the first time, in Jamestown.

Comments

We have that one scheduled as a theme possibility next year.

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Me also, the real first Thanksgiving!

Answer 3

Ancestors/Cousins:

29 Generations    Elinor More

29 Generations    Jasper More

29 Generations    Mary More

29 Generations   Richard More

33 Generations   Agnes (Cooper) Tilley

34 Generations   Henry Samson

34 Generations    Humility Cooper

39 Generations    Katherine (White) Carver

I had heard for many years in family discussions that I had a connection to Richard More.  He is not only the only original Mayflower Pilgrim with a still existing gravesite  (Salem, Massachusetts), but also the one passenger that the Mayflower Society states is the most difficult to connect to as a relative.

Answer 4

I’m related by one marriage to all of these passengers:

12 degrees Edward Doty Sr.
14 degrees Myles Standish
14 degrees Richard Warren
14 degrees Francis Cooke
14 degrees Jean Cooke
14 degrees Edward Winslow Jr.
14 degrees Gilbert Winslow

Answer 5

I am 20 degrees from William Bradford

21 degrees from Richard Warren

21 degrees from John Alden

21 degrees from Remember Maverick

22 degrees from Elinor Armstrong

22 degrees from Mary Brewster

22 degrees from Edvard Doty

22 degrees from Samuel Fuller

22 degrees from Elisabeth Hopkins

22 degrees from Myles Standish

23 degrees from Richard More (19th cousins 6 times removed)

23 degrees from Susanna Winslow.

Answer 6

Obviously, this is a close-knit group, so all of them fall between 23 and 26 degrees for me:

• 23 = John Alden, Remember Maverick, Richard More
• 24 = William Bradford, Elizabeth Hopkins, Myles Standish, Richard Warren, Susanna Winslow
• 25 = Mary Brewster, Edward Doty
• 26 = Elinor Armstrong, Samuel Fuller 

No Germans on the Mayflower, so no cousins for me ... ;-)

Answer 7

It looks like the First Ladies Connection Question has already been asked today and doesn't have to wait until next week... ?!?

Comments

Well, that one is a member question and only focuses on Rosalyn. The weekly post will look at first ladies from around the globe.

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Well, it does ask for connections to First Ladies in general, and the answers seem to treat it like the Connection Finder Question of the week. I myself hadn't noticed the difference when answering earlier today.

Answer 8

I am most closely connected to William Bradford at 18 degrees. His 7xgreat granddaughter married my 2nd cousin 3x removed. All of the featured connections are within 21 degrees of me.

Answer 9

[[Warren-66|Richard Warren]] is my 11th great-grandfather!

Comments

Mine, too.   Abby's post on this page indicates that he is featured this week because he has the most living descendants of the Mayflower passengers.

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Me too!

Answer 10

Greetings all, my closest cousin is Richard More (5c12r); closest connection is Remember Maverick (14^o)

• Richard More Sr (5c12r)
• Remember Maverick 14^o 
• Mary Brewster, 15^o 3 branches 
• William Bradford, 15^o 3 branches 
• Edward Doty, 16^o 3 branches
• Elizabeth Hopkins, 16^o 3 branches
• John Aldean, 16^o 3 branches
• Miles Standish,16^o 3 branches
• Susanna Winslow,16^o 3 branches
• Samuel Fuller,17^o 2 branches
• Richard Warren,17^o 3 branches
• Elinor Armstrong,18^o

Answer 11

12 degrees from Myles Standish
14 degrees from Richard Warren
14 degrees from John Alden
14 degrees from William Bradford
14 degrees from Mary Brewster (12th ggm)
14 degrees from Edward Doty
14 degrees from Elizabeth Hopkins
14 degrees from Remember Maverick
15 degrees from Elinor Armstrong
15 degrees from Samuel Fuller
16 degrees from Richard More (8th cousins, 13x removed)
16 degrees from Susanna Winslow

Answer 12

14° from Richard Warren,

15° from Elinor Armstrong,

16° from Mary Brewster,

14° from Edward Doty,

15° from Samuel Fuller,

15° from Elizabeth Hopkins,

14° from Remember Maverick,

14° from John Alden,

15° from Richard More,

14° from Myles Standish,

and 16° from Susanna Winslow.

All pretty close. Though they're not mentioned here, I'm descended from passengers Francis Cooke and Thomas Rogers (12×grandfathers) and possibly Peter Brown (11×grandfather).

Answer 13

14  degrees from John Alden.

15 degrees from William Bradford.

15 degrees from Edward Doty.

15 degrees from Remember (Allerton) Maverick.

15 degrees from Myles Standish.

16 degrees from Richard Warren.

16 degrees from Mary Brewster.

16 degrees from Samuel Fuller.

16 degrees from Susanna (Jackson) Winslow.

17 degrees from Elinor Armstrong.

17 degrees from Elizabeth Hopkins.

18 degrees from Richard More. 7th cousin 11 times removed. MRCA Elizabeth (Betteshorne) Berkeley (1353 - 1420).

Answer 14

• Elinor Armstrong 9th great granduncle
• Mary Winslow (bef.1607 bef.1679) ancestor  9th Great Grandmother
• Francis Cooke (abt.1583-1663) ancestor 10th Great Grandfather
• James Chilton (abt.1556-1620) ancestor 10th Great Grandfather
• DO I WIN?????????

Answer 15

Mary Brewster - 12th great grandmother

Richard Moore - 11th cousins 16 times removed

Answer 16

After going through the whole Mayflower Passengers list, here's what I've found:

John Howland - 12th great grandfather

Joan (Hurst) Tilley - 13th great grandmother

Elizabeth (Howland) Tilley - 12th great grandmother

John Tilley - 13th great grandfather

Additionally, I have Edward Tilley as my 13th great uncle and Katherine (White) Carver as my 14th great aunt

Comments

I have Tilley and Howland too! I checked and we're 10th cousins twice removed :)

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Thats cool!

Answer 17

Three at 13 degrees and one at 16.  The rest are in between.  The only cousin (9th, 10 times removed) was the farthest away in terms of connections.

In spite of the small range of connection counts, the paths are quite diverse, passing through my paternal grandfather, maternal grandmother, maternal grandfather, and wife.

Answer 18

My closest at 12 degrees are John Alden and Myles Standish, both 10th great, gramdfathers.

Comments

John Alden is also 12 degrees from me and my tenth great grandfather... not as close with Myles Standish though...

Answer 19

Mary Chilton as my ninth great grandmother.  Eleven degrees away.  The legend is that Mary was the first woman (she was thirteen years old) to step onto Plymouth Rock.  Her father James Chilton died when the Mayflower was off Cape Cod before they moved on to Plymouth.  Her mother, whose name is not known, died during that first terrible winter.

Answer 20

Ancestors and Cousins

• 13 Degrees to Samuel Fuller 10th great grand Uncle
• 15 Degrees to Richard More 9C 12xR

Connections

• 12 Degrees to William Bradford
• 13 Degrees to Edward Doty
• 14 Degrees to Mary Brewster
• 14 Degrees to Richard Warren
• 14 Degrees to John Alden
• 15 Degrees to Myles Standish
• 16 Degrees to Elinor Armstrong
• 16 Degrees to Elizabeth Hopkins
• 16 Degrees to Remember Maverick
• 16 Degrees to Susanna Winslow