National Parks Connection Combat: Teddy Roosevelt or Paul Kruger?

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Connection Combat this week features two National Park champions: US President Teddy Roosevelt and South African President Paul Kruger.

Here's how the game is played:

  1. Check your connection to Teddy Roosevelt and Paul Kruger (click "Connection to Me" in each profile pull-down menu).
  2. Click "Answer this post" below. Choose Team Roosevelt  or Team Kruger 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 April 23-30.

You can also chat live on Discord.

What if you get stuck?

If you have a hard time finding a source to confirm a connection ... or just don't know where to begin ... post a new question here in G2G asking for help. Include the tag "medic" in your post so one of our helpful medics can come to your aid.

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Watch for G2G questions with the tag "medic" and offer aid when you are able. The questions will also appear in our Discord channel so you can keep an eye out for them there as well.

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30 Answers

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Teddy wins this week.  We are 16 degrees apart and we are 10th cousins 5 times removed.

This week I am related to both sides.  Paul  is 24 degrees from me and we are 21st cousins 6 times removed.

Now, lets see if I can find a clean path.
by Judith Fry G2G6 Mach 7 (79.6k points)

     0. Theodore Roosevelt Jr

  1. his son Kermit Roosevelt Sr
  2. his wife Belle Willard
  3. her mother Belle Wyatt
  4. her father Richard Watson Wyatt
  5. his father William R. B. Wyatt
  6. his father William Streshley Wyatt
  7. his father Richard Wyatt
  8. his sister Anne Wyatt
  9. her daughter Mary Starke
  10. her daughter Sarah Stark Davis
  11. her son James Brafford
  12. his son George Brafford
  13. his son Walter Brafford
  14. his son Chauncey Brafford
  15. his daughter My MOM
  16. her daughter ME

     0. Theodore Roosevelt Jr

  1. his son Kermit Roosevelt Sr
  2. his wife Belle Willard
  3. her mother Belle Wyatt
  4. her father Richard Watson Wyatt
  5. his father William R. B. Wyatt
  6. his father William Streshley Wyatt
  7. his father Richard Wyatt
  8. his sister Anne Wyatt
  9. her daughter Mary Starke
  10. her daughter Sarah Stark Davis
  11. her son James Brafford
  12. his son George Brafford
  13. his son Walter Brafford
  14. his son Chauncey Brafford
  15. his daughter My MOM
  16. her daughter ME 
+9 votes
Paul Kruger 12 Degrees
by Henry Abbott G2G Crew (470 points)
+9 votes

Rather unusually for a native-born American, I'm Team Kruger at 10 degrees, vs. Roosevelt at 18!

It helps being married to a South African... laugh

by Allison Waltberg G2G1 (1.3k points)
+8 votes
I can't do the connection relationship on either, but the genealogical relationship to Teddy Roosevelt, I can verify that! 7th cousins 6 times removed.
by Concetta Phillipps G2G6 Mach 1 (10.9k points)
+8 votes

Bully for me, I'm 15 degrees (and 5th cousins 4x removed) with Teddy Roosevelt. 

Katherine Bogue

1↑ Carl Bogue (her father)

2: ↑ Jessie Mae Parker (his mother)

3: ↑ Minnie Ray (her mother)

4: ↑ Minerva Harrell (her mother)

5: ↑ Minerva Sampson (her mother)

6: ↑ Jesse Sampson (her father)

7: ↑ Jane Wilson (his mother)

8: ↑ Edward Wilson (her father)

9: ↑ Sarah Craig (his mother)

10: ↔ Daniel Craig (her brother)

11: ↓ Sarah Craig (his daughter)

12: ↓ Robert Barnhill (her son)

13: ↓ Margaret Barnhill (his daughter)

14: ↓ Theodore Roosevelt (her son)

15: ↓ Theodore Roosevelt (his son)

by Katherine Chapman G2G6 Mach 7 (72.1k points)
+9 votes

Team Kruger for sure!

So far this is the closest link I've been able to verify:

0. Stephanus Johannes Paulus Kruiger

1. Elsie Francina Steyn (his mother)

2. Alida Barendina van der Walt (her mother)

3. Johannes Nicolaas Van der Wald (her brother)

4. Johannes Nicolaas van der Walt (his son)

5. Johannes Petrus van der Walt (his son)

6. Johannes Petrus van der Walt (his son)

7. Petrus Albertus van der Walt (his son)

8. private (his son)

9. Me (his son)

However, my grandfather wrote in his book that his grandmother Jacoba Petronella du Plessis and Paul Kruger's second wife Gezina Susanna Frederika Wilhelmina du Plessis were first cousins. If true, that would make me 8 degrees removed from Paul Kruger. However, I have not been able to confirm this link so far.

My grandfather does go on to talk about the closeness of the Kruger and Van der Walt families as a result of this familial link though, even pointing out that his father was able to use Paul Kruger's personal coach when he married his first wife. So there must be a link I'm missing somewhere!

by Johann Waltberg G2G Crew (690 points)
edited by Johann Waltberg
+9 votes

Hello blush Team Roosevelt for me 

I am most closley connected to US President Teddy Roosevelt (17 degrees from me) 

Theodore Roosevelt is 17 Degrees from Carol Lynn Napora

  1. Roosevelt-18.jpgTheodore Roosevelt
  2. Carow-1.jpgEdith Carow
    (his wife)
  3. Carow-7.jpgGertrude Tyler
    (her mother)
  4. Tyler-1038.jpgDaniel Tyler
    (her father)
  5. imageSarah Edwards
    (his mother)
  6. imageMark Edwards
    (her brother)
  7. imageNancy Hammontree
    (his wife)
  8. Hammontree-20.jpgJacob Hammontree
    (her brother)
  9. imageTerressa Hammontree
    (his daughter)
  10. imageLarkin Raper
    (her husband)
  11. imageWilliam Raper
    (his father)
  12. imageElizabeth Draper
    (his sister)
  13. imageSanders Sisco
    (her son)
  14. imageIsabelle Sisco
    (his daughter)
  15. imageEliza Law
    (her daughter)
  16. Tinch-59.jpgJoe Tinch
    (her son)
  17. Tinch-40.gifJoe Tinch
    (his son)
  18. Napora-16-4.jpgCarol Lynn Napora
    (his daughter)

by Carol Lynn Napora G2G6 Mach 3 (36.1k points)
+6 votes
Teddy and I are 6th cousins. Paul and I are 24th cousins. I am team Roosevelt.
by A. Creighton G2G6 Pilot (937k points)
+6 votes
Team Paul Kruger at only 11 degrees.
by Nina Gelderblom G2G Crew (630 points)

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