Posted by:
moose
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Date: February 11, 2015 04:19PM
I know. I'm on "vacation" from RfM. However, I was directed to a site a couple of days ago and decided to share some information.
My DS (TBM) is a geek like me and was recently the lead developer for lds.org (he left the employ of the Church Technology department for other employment over a year ago). He texted the URL of a site seemingly developed at BYU but tied to familysearch.org, the church's genealogical site. The URL allows me to invoke an app, after signing in with my lds.org credentials, and find relatives. Since there have been postings here regarding our LDS ancestry, I thought I'd share mine. Now, this app will also find non-LDS famous ancestors, so I have included a list of U. S. Presidents to whom it says I am related as well as a few just plain famous Americans.
Susan I/S has my e-mail address so, if any of you still have your lds.org credentails and they are active or have LDS relatives who have an account, I can provide the URL and you can have a look for yourselves.
Here 'tis (and yes, Steve Benson, as unfortunate as it may be for you to know, we are related by blood, not just by marriage as I had hitherto surmised):
Three Witnesses
Martin Harris - 4th cousin 8 times removed
Eight Witnesses
Hyrum Smith - 5th cousin 5 times removed
Samuel Harrison Smith - 5th cousin 5 times removed
Hiram Page - 6th cousin 7 times removed
Prophets
Howard William Hunter - 11th cousin 2 times removed
Gordon Bitner Hinckley - 3rd cousin 3 times removed
David Oman McKay - 9th cousin 4 times removed
Wilford Woodruff - 5th cousin 5 times removed
George Albert Smith - 6th cousin 4 times removed
Lorenzo Snow - 5th cousin 6 times removed
Harold Bingham Lee - 7th cousin 2 times removed
Ezra Taft Benson - 9th cousin 3 times removed
Spencer Woolley Kimball - 6th cousin 3 times removed
Joseph Fielding Smith - 6th cousin 4 times removed
Thomas Spencer Monson - 10th cousin 2 times removed
Heber Jeddy Grant - 9th cousin 5 times removed
Joseph Fielding Smith - 6th cousin 3 times removed
Brigham Young - 6th cousin 6 times removed
Joseph Smith - 4th cousin 5 times removed
Current Apostles
Boyd Kenneth Packer - 10th cousin 3 times removed
Richard Gordon Scott - 8th cousin 2 times removed
Lowell Tom Perry - 6th cousin 2 times removed
Dallin Harris Oaks - 8th cousin 4 times removed
Robert Dean Hales - 10th cousin 1 times removed
David Allan Bednar - 9th cousin 2 times removed
Melvin Russell Ballard - 8th cousin 1 times removed
Nelson Sr Russell Marion - 12th cousin 1 times removed
Jeffrey Roy Holland - 11th cousin 1 times removed
Neil Linden Andersen - 10th cousin 2 times removed
Deceased Apostles
Hugh B. Brown - 5th cousin 4 times removed
Parley Parker Pratt - 6th cousin 5 times removed
Henry Thorpe Beal Isaacson - 10th cousin 3 times removed
LeGrand Richards - 8th cousin 6 times removed
Orson Ferguson Whitney - 8th cousin 3 times removed
Delbert Leon Stapley - 7th cousin 3 times removed
Ezra Taft Benson - 7th cousin 7 times removed
Henry Dinwoody Moyle - 8th cousin 4 times removed
Marriner Wood Merrill - 7th cousin 5 times removed
Joshua Reuben Clark - 6th cousin 3 times removed
Charles Coulson Rich - 8th cousin 3 times removed
Charles William Penrose - 10th cousin 4 times removed
Stephen L. Richards - 7th cousin 7 times removed
Franklin Dewey Richards - 6th cousin 8 times removed
Reed Smoot - 10th cousin 4 times removed
Bruce Redd McConkie - 9th cousin 1 times removed
Marion George R0mney - 7th cousin 3 times removed
Marvin Jeremy Ashton - 11th cousin 3 times removed
Albert Ernest Bowen - 10th cousin 4 times removed
Neal Ash Maxwell - 9th cousin 2 times removed
Moses Thatcher - 8th cousin 5 times removed
Frederick Granger Williams - 6th cousin 8 times removed
Heber Chase KIMBALL - 7th cousin 7 times removed
David Wyman Patten - 4th great great uncle
Thomas Baldwin Marsh - 7th cousin 7 times removed
Joseph Bitner Wirthlin - 10th cousin 3 times removed
David Bruce Haight - 8th cousin 4 times removed
James Edward Talmage - 7th cousin 4 times removed
Anthony Woodward Ivins - 8th cousin 4 times removed
Melvin Joseph Ballard - 12th cousin 2 times removed
Nathan Eldon Tanner - 6th cousin 3 times removed
John Edward Page - 6th cousin 7 times removed
John Farnham Boynton - 8th cousin 5 times removed
Lyman Wight - 8th cousin 6 times removed
James Esdras Faust - 9th cousin 3 times removed
Rudger Clawson - 3rd cousin 4 times removed
Amasa Mason Lyman - 5th cousin 4 times removed
Matthew Cowley - 7th cousin 4 times removed
Orson Hyde - 6th cousin 5 times removed
Willard Richards - 5th cousin 9 times removed
Famous Americans
Elias Disney - 8th cousin 3 times removed
Amelia Mary EARHART - 11th cousin
Jesse Woodson James - 8th cousin 6 times removed
William Frederick Cody - 8th cousin 6 times removed
Nathaniel ( Hathorne) Hawthorne - 6th cousin 8 times removed
Samuel L. Clemens - 6th cousin 6 times removed
Susan Brownell Anthony - 4th cousin 5 times removed
Buster Or Joseph Francis Keaton - 9th cousin 4 times removed
Truman Osborn Angell - 8th cousin 4 times removed
John ( Duke) Wayne - 7th cousin 1 times removed
Jacob Vernon Hamblin - 5th cousin 8 times removed
Bing Crosby - 8th cousin 4 times removed
Robert LeRoy Parker - 12th cousin 1 times removed
Aron Presley (Elvis) - 8th cousin 1 times removed
Emily Elizabeth Dickinson - 8th cousin 4 times removed
Philo Taylor Farnsworth - 7th cousin 4 times removed
U. S. Presidents
Franklin Pierce - 5th cousin 7 times removed
Millard Fillmore - 8th cousin 6 times removed
(Hiram) Ulysses Simpson Grant - 6th cousin 6 times removed
Abram Ballou Garfield - 6th cousin 6 times removed
James Madison - 5th cousin 8 times removed
Mc Kinley William - 8th cousin 5 times removed
William Henry Harrison - 8th cousin 4 times removed
Warren G Harding - 9th cousin 1 times removed
Herbert C. Hoover - 10th cousin 2 times removed
(Hon) Theodore Roosevelt - 6th cousin 5 times removed
Benjamin W. Harrison - 8th cousin 6 times removed
John Tyler - 9th cousin 5 times removed
Richard Milhous Nixon - 6th cousin 2 times removed
William Howard Taft - 7th cousin 5 times removed
James Monroe - 5th cousin 7 times removed
Abraham Lincoln - 7th cousin 7 times removed
Harry S Truman - 11th cousin 3 times removed
Lyndon B. Johnson - 10th cousin 4 times removed
Thomas Jefferson - 6th cousin 7 times removed
Calvin Galusha Coolidge - 6th cousin 3 times removed
Franklin Delano Roosevelt - 6th cousin 5 times removed
George Washington - 5th cousin 9 times removed
Quite tangled, eh?!
This is only a portion of what I got back.
Of course, as with a-n-y-t-h-i-n-g performed by LDS "genealogists", I am somewhat dubious of this information as a whole. but, even the LDS can be correct from time to time.
At the very least, it was entertaining to me. For 30 minutes. *grin*
Anyway, my real point being that most of us multi-generational LDS folk are so very intertwined that some of us could potentially (and facetiously) be our own granpa/grandma! Is it any less surprising the current Q12+3 are all related?
Not to me.
Now, back to my "vacation".