Samuel Lothrop reaches 20 million in 20 circles

Question

To those of you familiar with the 100 Circles project, the name of Samuel Lothrop surely rings a bell. He's been from the beginning of our research the profile with the most impressive circles numbers.

Today he crushed a new record : the number of profiles within its 20 first circles has passed 20 million. That means : over 20 million of profiles are at distance 20 or less from Samuel Lothrop. That is over 75% of connected profiles!

Check your distance! You are probably among those ... Mine is 18 (thanks to my wife ... otherwise it would be 27).

Some active WikiTreers are direct descendants, only at distance 10 from Samuel Lothrop. Random example : https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Luther-1921. Many members of the 20 circles are yet to be born ... until the 23th century ...

[updated figures as of July 2023 : CC20 over 23M,  CC18 over 20M]

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How many of the connections are living profiles?

How many of the connections are from each country?

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I have no tool to answer such questions. Maybe Shawn (Ligocki) or Ales would be able to. But you can check https://wikitree.sdms.si/default.htm?report=rep2&WikiTreeID=Lothrop-29. Click "Descendants summary", then "Show all" to get the full stats. Only 28532 descendants, up to generation 15.

Answer 1

18 for me, too - from England to the US and back to England.

Answer 2

16 for me.

Answer 3

12 for me. I'm descended from his sister in law.

Answer 4

Fantastic!

18 degrees from me on my father's side, by an emigrant in my fifth circle. 23 degrees from me on my mother's side, by an emigrant in my seventh circle.

Answer 5

17 degrees – 6 branches (2-6-1-2-3-4)

Answer 6

14 degrees for me.

Answer 7

10 for me. He is an 8th great grandfather.

Comments

Excellent! To follow up Tommy Buch's comment above, I would be curious to know how many 10th generation descendants we have among WikiTreers.

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I am another descendant 10 gen and 11 gen.

There must be large batch of direct descendants, I counted 874 lines that descend beyond 5 gens from Sam

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Welcome to the club, Toby!

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What proportion of these close relatives of Samuel Lothrop are in North America?  (They all seem remote from me!)

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@Geoffrey : Of course the first circles of Samuel Lothrop are mostly Northern Americans. But 20 circles are not "close relatives". You are at distance 20, I'm at 18, we are not Northern Americans. All this seems normal.

Answer 8

13 for me, I’m quite surprised to be so close!

Answer 9

My DH is 15 degrees from Samuel, through New England connections, McCollum-511

Answer 10

15 degrees!

Answer 11

17 degrees to Samuel ! Through both my French and English ancestors by marriage. C'est Bon ..

Answer 12

Samuel Lothrop is 18 Degrees from Leif Biberg Kristensen.

Answer 13

12 Degrees, I’m his 9th great grandniece.

Answer 14

15 for me--New England to England.

Answer 15

I'm at 12 degrees. The connection is through the wife of one of my uncles.

Answer 16

12 for me, i'm a decendent of his sister Jane

Answer 17

11 degrees here. Samuel Lothrop is my 8th gr grand uncle; I'm a direct descendant of Jane Lothrop and Samuel Fuller- and so is LDS founder Joseph Smith Jr.- that Mayflower+LDS lineage surely factors into how highly connected Samuel Lothrop is on the main tree. Samuel's father, Rev John Lothrop is estmated to have well over 3 million living descendants. You can see Rev Lothrop's personal Bible on display at the Sturgis Public Library, which was built incorporating part of the 17th century parsonage. Sturgis is a gem for researchers, and the Cape Cod setting is hard to beat! https://www.sturgislibrary.org/blog/category/stories-from-the-archives/

Answer 18

13 degrees... through his wife.

Answer 19

I'm his 12th great-grandaughter, so 13 degrees 

Answer 20

22 degrees if I ignore a dubious marriage between a man in Cornwall and a woman in Connecticut.