A Few More Ancestry Connections

My cousin Pam Jones attended a LDS conference on-line about Ancestry, and they generated these nifty charts for her.  This ancestry stuff is getting easier and easier every year.  They even have a special option of “See which famous people you are related to” and it automatically finds notable people. 

These are three that she found.  Pam is a first cousin (my father her Uncle, her mother my Aunt), so the stats are precisely the same.  Our connection to these famous folk are through our Grandmother Mary Ella Farris…whom I never met, she died before I was born. 

I knew that I was a distant cousin with Princess Dianna already, because she is a Spencer (aristocratic famous family in England) and the Dutton’s are related to them as well. 

But I didn’t know that I was related to Walt Disney.  That’s a surprise.  Kind of cool!  Maybe that’ll get me some free tickets to Disneyworld.  😀   

I also didn’t know about Edward Winslow. 
He sailed on the Mayflower and is depicted in a painting as well as a statue in England,
and of course, has a Wikipedia page with lots more detail…  

Statue of Edward Winslow in St. Andrew’s Square, Droitwich Spa, England.

Signing the Mayflower Compact 1620, a painting by Jean Leon Gerome Ferris 1899. Winslow is the person standing in the center of the painting, with his right hand on the document and the ink horn in his left hand.