Rabbits Connection Combat: Bugs Bunny vs Judy Hopps

Question

It's the all about the rabbits this Easter week. Our Connection Combat game features Bugs Bunny (Mel Blanc) and Officer Judy Hopps (Ginnifer Goodwin in Zootopia).

Here's how the game is played:

1. Check your connection to Bugs Bunny and Judy Hopps (click "Connection to Me" in each profile pull-down menu).
2. Click "Answer this post" below. Choose Team Bugs Bunny or Team Judy Hopps and say how many degrees are in your chosen connection path.
3. Verify each relationship along your connection path with a reliable source [more explanation].
4. Post a comment below your answer here as soon as you're done.

The players with the closest verified connection wins!

There are seven additional ways to win and enter the Connection Combat Hall of Fame. These require clearing your path of any and all little "WikiTree Weevils."

This game runs from March 26 - April 2. 

Do you want to help others? We call this "combat" just for fun. It's really more about collaboration than competition. Please participate in your team's Aid Station and stop by when you have questions or problems.

• Team Bugs Bunny Station
• Team Judy Hopps Aid Station

You can also chat live on Discord. See the Connection Combat help page for more information.

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I'm Team Judy Hopps - 28 degrees - but will only be able to verify 9 degrees back, as Sarah (Huskinson-4) Giles left England for the United States after her marriage - and I don't have good access to her later records / the other links.

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Team bugs 22 degrees away. So a very distant cousin

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WINNERS:

Winner: Judith Fry (18) Hopps

• Gold Hero: Judith Fry (18) Hopps
• Silver Hero: Shonda Feather (19) Hopps
• Bronze Hero: Janet Demcoe (19) Hopps
• Gold Veteran: Laura Franks (26) Bugs
• Silver Veteran: Candra Holmes (25) Bugs
• Bronze Veteran: Candra Holmes (24) Hopps
• Scout: Mildred Wheeler (20) Hopps
• Medics: Candra Holmes (49)
• Double Agents: Mildred Wheeler
• Peacemaker: N/A
• International Legionnaire: N/A

Answer 1

Team Judy Hopps for me at 20 degrees! Just one marriage and again going through a line I haven't visited yet. Fun!

Answer 2

Team Judy Hopps for me at 24 degrees - love Ginnifer Goodwin!

Answer 3

20 degrees Team Judy Hopps, three branches (7-5-9), Goodwin-3696 versus 23 degrees Team Bugs Bunny, seven branches (1-2-6-3-5-1-6), Blank-641

0. Goodwin-3696

1. private person

2. their father, Goodwin-3698

3. his mother, Haynes-2375

4. her father, Haynes-7401

5. his father, Haynes-6166

6. his sister, Haines-5415

7. her husband, Lane-1505

8. his father, Lane-1500

9. his father, Lane-1506

10. his brother, Lane-642

11. his daughter, Lane-11869

12. her husband, Brown-82835

13. his mother, Wheeler-7000

14. her brother, Wheeler-5189

15. his son, Wheeler-5195

16. his son, Wheeler-18871

17. his son, Wheeler-18812

18. his son, Wheeler-18807

19. his son, Wheeler-18911

20. his daughter, Wheeler-18799 (me)

Team Bugs Bunny, seven branches (1-2-6-3-5-1-6), Blank-641

0. Blank-641

1. his wife, Rosenbaum-595

2. her brother, Rosenbaum-597

3. his wife, Morris-40109

4. her father, Morris-40114

5. his mother, Lemert-73

6. her mother, Cessna-673

7. her sister, Cessna-426

8. her daughter, Divan-26

9. her husband, Perkins-10363

10. his sister, Perkins-20803

11. her son, Eaton-10989

12. his wife, Hayes-21476

13. her mother, Inman-3884

14. her mother, Eastman-179

15. her mother, Maxham-4

16. her brother, Maxham-7

17. his wife, Davis-4964

18. her husband, Polmanteer-30

19. his brother, Palmateer-67

20. his daughter, Palmateer-1115

21. her son, Wheeler-18807

22. his son, Wheeler-18911

23. his daughter, Wheeler-18799 (me)

Answer 4

What's up, Doc? I'm Team Bugs this week, at 22 degrees. (23 from Judy Hopps.)

Answer 5

Team Judy Hopps at 19 degrees! Team Bugs Bunny is a close second at 20 degrees.

Line is verified, sourced and cleaned up.

Ginnifer Goodwin →
Private Person (her father) →
John Goodwin (his father) →
Al Goodwin (his father) →
Bettie Searcy (his mother) →
Alexander Searcy (her father) →
Hethy Stark (his mother) →
Alexander Stark (her father) →
John Stark (his father) →
Clayton Stark (his brother) →
Celia Harding (his wife) →
Clarkey Million (her mother) →
Elizabeth Million (her sister) →
George Tolson (her son) →
John Tolson (his son) →
Georgianna Tolson (his daughter) →
Christine Herndon (her daughter) →
Elmer Sayers-Howell (her son) →
Larry Sayers-Howell (his son) →
Shonda Sayers-Howell

Answer 6

Team Judy Hopps at 25 degrees (4 branches).

Answer 7

So are we just ignoring the singer Eddie Rabbitt? ("I love a rainy night", "You and I"). See his profile

Answer 8

17 degrees from Mel Blanc

19 degrees from Gennifer Goodwin

Team Bugs Bunny!

Answer 9

20 degrees from the First Mrs. Johnny  Cash - completed.

Answer 10

I am related to two of the bunnies and one is in combat!

1) 18º Junius Matthews: 11th cousin/2xr MRCA Alice (Unknown) Wheeler

2) 19º Ginnifer Goodwin: 9th cousins MRCA Sarah (Cooper) Munson

Other non-related bunnies:

19º Rachel Mellon; 20º Harold Warstler; 21º Mel Blanc; 22º Bunny DeBarge; 23º Sam Edwards; 24º Herbert Adair and Richard Adams; 26º Marty Krofft; 31º Peter Dinklage; and 28º Dick Bruna

Best Wishes for a Happy Easter...

Answer 11

I am 29 degrees from Team Judy (25th cousins four times removed)

30 degrees from Team Bugs

Answer 12

Ginnifer closer to me than Mel (19 vs 22). 

One shortest line of 19 goes through my sister’s husband, who is Ginnifer’s 8th cousin. 

Another connection of 19 goes through my paternal grandmother. 

I am Ginnifer’s 9th cousin, 2x removed, though my paternal grandfather, though that chain has 21 links, still closer than to Mel.

Answer 13

Team Judy Hopps at 17th cousins twice removed and the only one I'm actually related to.

Answer 14

Team Judy for the win at 21 degrees! She's also my 10th cousin once removed.

Mel Blanc was just one more 'hop' at 22 degrees.

Answer 15

Just 21 degrees for Team Judy Hopps... Lets see what this gives

Answer 16

Ginnifer Goodwin is 19 Degrees from Christina Adams

Mel Blanc is 19 Degrees from Christina Adams

Answer 17

Team Judy Hopps, at 22 degrees.

Much more successful than last week!

Ginnifer Goodwin

1 Private Person (her father I guess!)

2 John Goodwin (their father)

3 Nellie Haynes (his mother)

4 Isaac Haynes (her father)

5 Abraham Haynes (his father)

6 Azariah Haines (his brother)

7 Kindness Haines (his daughter)

8 John Badger (her husband)

9 Rodney Badger (his brother)

10 Nancy Badger (his daughter)

11 William Ashby (her husband)

12 Martha Ellen Ashby (his sister)

13 Martha Stringham (her daughter)

14 Joseph Edmunds (her husband)

15 Francis Edmonds (his father)

16 William Edmonds (his brother)

17 Mary Edmonds (his daughter)

18 Susannah Aldridge (her daughter)

19 Edith Myall (her daughter)

20 My Grandmother (private)

21 My Mother (private)

22 ME! :)

I'm going to attempt Mel Blanc now, and see how that goes.

26 Degrees from Mel Blanc

Mel Blanc

1 Estelle Rosenbaum (his wife)

2 Shirley Rosenbaum (her brother)

3 Mildred Morris (his wife)

4 John Morris (her father)

5 Harriet Lemert (his mother)

6 Rebecca Cessna (his mother)

7John Cessna (her father)

8 Jonathan Cessna (his father)

9 John Cessna (his brother)

10 William Cessna (his son)

11 Rachel Morgart (his wife)

12 Catherine Morgert (her sister)

13 George Barton (her husband)

14 Mary Barton (his mother)

15 Noah Barton (her son)

16 Mary Barton (his daughter)

17 Abigail Candland (her daughter)

18 William Edmonds (her husband)

19 Francis Edmonds (his father)

20 William Edmonds (his brother)

21 Mary Edmonds (his daughter)

22 Susannah Aldridge (her daughter)

23 Edith Myall (her daughter)

24 My Grandmother (private)

25 My Mother (private)

26 ME! :)

Answer 18

Team Judy Hopps for me, at 18 degrees. (I just asked a question in the aid station, if anyone wants to help.) Working on those links, will post line when done.

Comments

I'm sorry to have to admit defeat this week. I have many potential paths to Judy Hoppes, but none for which I can verify each link. This exercise is exposing a need in our collective collaboration, to find and post sources. The frustrating part is that these were not empty profiles; there were lots of relationships, just very few actual records. "Private trees" don't help the rest of us. Why keep 200 year old information private?

Answer 19

Team Judy for me as well. 20 degrees AND she's my 144th cousin three times removed. Mel was a little further away at 22 degrees.

Answer 20

I was surprised to find Judy(Ginnifer) and I are pure 8th cousins at 17 degrees.  Sure, I'll join her team.

Update!

By checking the connections, I discovered an ancestor of Judy's had been incorrectly attributed to my ancestors. That connection has been severed, and alas, I am now 19 degrees, related by marriage of an ancestor.

What a good exercise!