ABBA Connection Game: Frida Lyngstad Reuß vs Agnetha Fältskog

Question

This week's Connection game features the female members of ABBA: Frida Reuß and Agnetha Fältskog.

Here's how the game is played:

1. Check your connection to Frida Reuß and Agnetha Fältskog (click "Connection to Me" in each profile pull-down menu).
2. Click "Answer this post" below. Choose Team Frida or Team Agnetha and say how many degrees are in your chosen connection path.
3. See if you can verify each relationship along your connection path with a reliable source [more explanation].
4. Post comments below your answer as you progress and when you run into trouble. Someone else might be able to help.

The player with the closest verified connection wins! For overachievers, there are also seven additional ways to win and enter the Connection Combat Hall of Fame.

Will you join us? Answer below.

This game runs from May 7-14.

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We're considering changes to this game for future weeks.

Please see https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Help:Connection_Checkers and give feedback at https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/1742759/what-do-you-think-of-this-new-connection-checkers-game-plan

Thank you!

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Are we allowed to add Anni-Frid Lyngstad's partner Henry Smith to her profile?  Doesnt apply to blood relationship but because the question is around degrees of connection, it would be valid from that point of view?

 

Answer 1

Team Frida for me! 27 degrees. *wanders off humming Dancing Queen*

Answer 2

Team Frida for me at 26 degrees. (I'm 34 from Agnetha, which I'm going to try to bring down.)

Answer 3

I am 24 Degrees from Frida - so Team Frida for me...

Answer 4

Clearly Team Frida for me! 19 degrees, vs. 31 for Agnetha.

Answer 5

Team Frida. 27 degrees.

Answer 6

Team Frida Lygstad 21 degrees

Agnetha Fältskog 39 degrees

Answer 7

28 degrees from Frida. 34 degrees from Agnetha

Answer 8

I'm team Frida with 28 degrees.

Answer 9

Team Agnetha for me: 9 degrees. (28 degrees from Frida)

Comments

As far as I understand, I have now verified each relationship along my connection path to Agnetha with reliable sources. Furthermore I have also made sure that the path is "weevil-free". My only challenge right now is that the last two steps (including Agnetha) along the path are living notables and I do not have access to the profiles, and, therefore, I cannot add the relevant sources there.

Answer 10

27 degrees from Frida - 35 degrees from Agnetha. So it looks like Frida is the word !!!

Answer 11

I'll take my chances and go with Agnetha Fältskog at 33 degrees.

Answer 12

Team Frida with 26 degrees (33 degrees for Agnetha)

Answer 13

25 from Frida!

Answer 14

Team Frida at 25 degrees on Wikitree

but only 18 on geni because it has partner with whom there are children

some which comes from really remarkable research and networking with the results (finding a second cousin who played Wimbledon for South Africa on the male line on one side and connecting one of my favorite fellow researchers and finding that she was a second cousin on the female side. )

Only reason we had not found it was there were 3 critical mistakes on her grandfather's WW1 death certificate

1) wrong spelling of his mother.
2) wrong maiden name of his wife (had her remarried name)
3) wrong gender of their child - they said Erie but it was Eric

Then on the child; marriage certificate, he filled in his middle name as Pfeilitzer correctly but the Afrikkaner pastor changed it to Phf and made them all initial.  

This defies soundex so wasnt coming through google.  

Interestingly, his wife had to fill out two of her brothers (very sad thing), one in England and the other in Australia.  Anzac records are phenomenal which is why I could connect them to my partner in crime.  

So maybe some additons to trees to follow here.

I could likely shrink that to 16 if I could get my St. KItts done because of the Pagets

Answer 15

Frida 29 degrees away, Agnetha 34 - so neither are close to me although I do have a high genetic 'viking index' (lots of my ancestors were from parts of the British isles that were colonized).

Comments

Hmm, not sure a lot of viking connections will be in Wikitree, a bit hard with all the "written sources" stuff :)

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Yes, but the vikings are all descendants of woden-1 so that helps !

Answer 16

Agnetha Fältskog is 25 Degrees from me!

0: Agnetha Fältskog

1: = Björn Ulvaeus (her husband)- Private

2: ↑ Erik Gunnar Andersson (his father)

3: ↑ Erik Alexius Andersson (his father)

4: ↑ August Andersson (his father)

5: ↔ Peter Andersson (his brother)

6: ↓ Johan Pettersson (his son)

7: ↓ Anna-Lisa Petterson (his daughter)

8: = Eskil Rodén (her husband)

9: ↑ Johanna Eriksson (his mother)

10: ↔ Erik Eriksson (her brother)

11: ↓ Enok Friman (his son)

12: = Eva Sofia Elisabet Lindström (his wife)

13: ↑ Augusta Lindström (her mother)

14: ↔ Helga Lindström (her sister) Unable to verify

15: ↓ Margaret Hedfors (her daughter) done

16: ↓ Theodore Hallquist (her son) done

17: = Rosemary Matlock (his wife) done

18: ↑ Frances Ramsey (her mother) PRIVATE-unable to see if parents are confident or mark as confident

19: ↔ Eura Ramsey (her brother) done

20: = Nina Burns (his wife) done

21: ↔ Ethel Burns (her sister) done

22: = Virgil Woods (her husband) done

23: ↔ Mary Woods (his sister) done

24: ↓ Mary Frances James (her daughter) done

25: ↓ M. Tull (her daughter) done

Comments

What is not verified with Helga Lindström? Is it because not both parents are not verified for her sister? To me it seems the sister-relation is verified.

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Hi John,

Thanks for replying. I am unable to translate the documents going up this line from Helga. I see sources; however, my inability to interpret is my  problem.  I should have articulated more effectively. Any help appreciated.

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Ah, ok, I get it! I'm at work so unable to access the actual images atm.

Answer 17

Frida it is!

I'm 26 degrees from Frida and 33 degrees from Agnetha.

Anni-Frid Synni Reuß is 26 Degrees from Jerry Medlock

0. Anni-Frid Synni Lyngstad
   →
1. ✖Ruzzo Reuß
   (her husband)→
2. ✖Louise Peyron
   (his mother)→
3. ✖Gustaf Karl Knut Bartolome Peyron
   (her father)→
4. ✖Gustaf Fredrik Peyron
   (his father)→
5. ✖Gustav Oskar Peyron
   (his father)→
6. ✖Anne Björkenstam
   (his mother)→
7. ✖Matilda Björkenstam
   (her sister)→
8. ✖Karl Cassel
   (her husband)→
9. ✖Viktor Cassel
   (his brother)→
10. ✖Selma Cassel
    (his daughter)→
11. ✖Pearl Clark
    (her daughter)→
12. ✖Virginia Stevens
    (her daughter)→
13. [private person]
    →
14. ✖Melanie Rogers
    (their daughter)→
15. [private person]
    →
16. ✖Mable Granger
    (their mother)→
17. ✖Alvin Granger
    (her father)→
18. ✖Lottie Jeffcoat
    (his mother)→
19. ✖Joshua Jeffcoat
    (her father)→
20. ✖Mary King
    (his mother)→
21. ✖Mary King
    (her sister)→
22. ✖Lott Prince
    (her son)→
23. ✖John Prince
    (his son)→
24. ✖Retha Prince
    (his daughter)→
25. ✖Herman Spivey
    (her son)→
26. Jerry Spivey
    (his son)

Jerry (Spivey-1619)