This week features individuals with the most connected notables on WikiTree, i.e. the
individuals with the most connections within seven degrees.

These are notable people on our Big Tree with the most family connections within seven
degrees (CC7).

Who has the highest CC7 of them all? Brigham Young, with his 55 wives! CC7: 287,063!!

Per wikitree.com, I am:

14 degrees from Brigham Young
22 degrees from Hermanus Steyn
22 degrees from Andries Wilhelmus Jacobus Pretorius
15 degrees from Robert Treat
15 degrees from Thomas Hinckley
13 degrees from Marin Boucher
22 degrees from Johan Hendrik de Lange
14 degrees from Etienne Parent
15 degrees from Joseph Broussard
15 degrees from Jonathan Edwards

More about them:

Brigham Young, LDS leader and first governor of the Utah Territory, CC7: 287,047. (He
had 55 wives and 57 children!)

Hermannus Steyn, president of the short-lived Republic of Swellendam, which later
became the British Cape Colony, CC7: 244,616.

Andries Pretorius, leader of Boers who helped establish South Africa, CC7: 232,567.

Robert Treat, third governor of Connecticut, CC7: 226,136.

Thomas Hinckley, fourteenth governor of the Plymouth Colony, CC7: 217,612.

Marin Boucher, New France settler, CC7: 190,751.

Johan Hendrik de Lange, South African avid scout, fervent hunter, brave soldier, and a
military strategist, CC7: 184,441.

Etienne Parent, French Canadian participant in the American Revolutionary War, CC7:
182,986.

Joseph Broussard, Acadian leader who organized Mi'kmaq and Acadian resistance against British forces and later led the first group of Acadians to settle in southern
Louisiana, CC7: 178,419.

Jonathan Edwards, notable Christian theologian, CC7: 163,247.

Marie Helene des Portes, first white person born in New France, CC7: 162,930.

Thomas Bingham, early Connecticut settler, a deacon, CC7: 160,315.

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I have some ancestors that were actors, architects, astronauts, Afro-American, authors, bank robbers, boxers, comedians, detectives, ghosts, holocaust survivors
Indian chiefs, pro hockey players, singers and musicians, painters, physicians,
politicians, poets, popes, writers, WW I heroes. I guess that I am a collection of
all of them, as we ALL are.

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