AJ Jacobs Junior
Honor Code SignatorySigned 8 Apr 2014 | 2,151 contributions | 66 thank-yous | 1,544 connections
Signed 8 Apr 2014 | 2,151 contributions | 66 thank-yous | 1,544 connections
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AJ S. Jacobs Junior
Born 1960s.
Ancestors 
Son of
[private father (1940s - unknown)]
and [private mother (1940s - unknown)]
Brother of
[private sister (1960s - unknown)]
[children unknown]
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Eowyn Walker 
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Hello all!
I'm a writer of several non-fiction books (including 'The Year of Living Biblically' and 'Drop Dead Healthy.' My current book, It's All Relative: Adventures Up and Down the World's Family Tree is about genealogy and tracing my roots. And for the finale of the book, I threw one of the largest family reunions in history.
Since we're all cousins, all seven billion members of the human family were welcome. Those who had a confirmed link to me received a special bracelet and were part of the record-breaking family photo.
It was exciting to use collaborative genealogy and WikiTree as part of this project. I had so many great volunteers working on my tree -- so thank you for that.
For more information on me and the start my project, here is a New York Times article I wrote when I first started this journey... http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/01/opinion/sunday/are-you-my-cousin.html
And here's a link to my website page about it
AJ JACOBS GLOBAL FAMILY REUNION
Sources
- First-hand information. Entered by Arnold Jacobs at registration.
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships by comparing test results with AJ or other carriers of his ancestors' Y-chromosome or mitochondrial DNA. Y-chromosome DNA test-takers in his direct paternal line on WikiTree:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships by comparing test results with AJ or other carriers of his ancestors' Y-chromosome or mitochondrial DNA. Y-chromosome DNA test-takers in his direct paternal line on WikiTree:
- AJ Jacobs: Family Tree DNA Y-DNA Test 111 markers, haplogroup J-PF5456, FTDNA kit #331523
- AJ Jacobs: Family Tree DNA mtDNA Test Full Sequence, FTDNA kit #331523
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AJ Jacobs:
23andMe, GEDmatch M102029 [compare]
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Beryl Jacobs
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23andMe
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~0.78%
~6.25%
Kayla (Wohl) Sloshay :
MyHeritage DNA, GEDmatch ZZ8991413 [compare]
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Genealogist-to-Genealogist (G2G) Forum posts about AJ:
- Highlights from AJ Jacobs' WikiTree Challenge Jan 29, 2021.
- WikiTree LiveCast (13 January 2021): WikiTree Challenge Wrap-up with AJ Jacobs and Kickoff for CeCe Moore Jan 11, 2021.
- Which "It's All Relative" notable are you most closely connected to? Jan 4, 2021.
- WikiTree Challenge 1: AJ Jacobs Jan 3, 2021.
- Help us find and improve next week's Connection Finder profiles: It's All Relative Dec 28, 2020.
- Did you notice AJ Jacobs is back in the Connection Finder? (plus a giveaway) Nov 8, 2017.
Featured National Park champion connections: AJ is 17 degrees from Theodore Roosevelt, 26 degrees from Stephanus Johannes Paulus Kruger, 15 degrees from George Catlin, 13 degrees from Marjory Douglas, 23 degrees from Sueko Embrey, 20 degrees from George Grinnell, 31 degrees from Anton Kröller, 19 degrees from Stephen Mather, 25 degrees from Kara McKean, 21 degrees from John Muir, 15 degrees from Victoria Hanover and 28 degrees from Charles Young on our single family tree. Login to find your connection.
If not, you should take a look at her lovely convoluted family relationships, where her third husband married his step-daughter (child of her first husband), becoming uncle, step-grandfather and adoptive/foster father to his new wife's niece (daughter of another of Sarah's daughters by the first husband).
Said granddaughter, niece, daughter, whatever, referred to her aunt-foster mother-grandmother as "Auntie-Mama". (She, also a noted author (Ethel Parton), was to have sibling-cousins by way of the aunt-foster mother.)
For me, this family really was a "puzzle" that needed sorting out.
Hope you get some great new information in the WikiTree Challenge 2021! I am on the team for CeCe Moore for next week. Should be very interesting. - NGP
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Jamie
The Hawsons date back to 1761, The Tobins date back to the early 1800's; We named our daughter Andrea Jane Eblen and throughout her basketball career she was known as AJ. Cheers Jane Eblen
But what I have read so far, is great. Mind you I am only up to chapter 12 so far.
Good luck with whatever the next book you have planned, and the adventures for that.