Which Ghostbuster (and associates) are you most closely connected to?

Question

Who you gonna call?

Ghostbusters!

June 8th is Ghostbusters Day, so we're featuring Ghostbusters and others from the movie franchise in the Connection Finder this week, starting with the director, Ivan Reitman, who passed away earlier this year.

• Dan Aykroyd (Ray Stantz)
• Charles Dance (Dr. Harold Filmore)
• Melissa McCarthy (Dr. Abby Yates)
• Bill Murray, (Peter Venkman)
• Annie Potts (Janine Melnitz)
• Harold Ramis (Egon Spengler)
• J.K. Simmons (Ivo Shandor)
• Max von Sydow (Vigo the Carpathian, voice)
• Sigourney Weaver (Dana Barrett)
• Kristen Wiig, Dr. Erin Gilbert

Which one is most closely connected to you? If you're one of the 26.1 million of us who are connected to each other on our big tree you can check with the Connection Finder.

You can check for shared ancestors with the Relationship Finder. Are you a cousin to any of them? Your Relationship Finder Quick Links page (see your profile pull-down menu under "Relationships") has quick links for several notable groups.

Special feature: Check out how you're connected to other notables by using the green MyConnections button in the upper right hand corner of the category page. Browse related categories like Ghostbusters, Hollywood Actors, and Famous Directors of the 20th Century.

Let us know how you're related below! If you want to share your connection on social media with cousins and friends, click the "get shareable image" below the results, e.g. Ivan Reitman and Harold Ramis. Then just upload it along with the URL of your direct connection. (Please refrain from sharing your connection on the featured profiles themselves, though. It clutters conversations on research and collaboration. Thanks!)

Help us with next week's Science Fiction Authors feature by helping to choose and improve profiles for it.

Comments

The theme still says Royalty...

Answer 1

So...

Apparently, I'm closely related to Annie Potts (who knew!!).  6th cousins three times removed!

Answer 2

I am most closely connected to Charles Dance, Annie Potts and Sigourney Weaver at 25 degrees.

Answer 3

19 degrees from Kristen Wiig (8th cousins, 2x removed)
19 degrees from Dan Aykroyd
20 degrees from J. K. Simmons (14th cousins, 1x removed)
21 degrees from Annie Potts (18th cousins, 1x removed)
21 degrees from Sigourney Weaver (11th cousins, 1x removed)
25 degrees from Charles Dance
25 degrees from Melissa McCarthy
25 degrees from Bill Murray
25 degrees from Max von Sydow (17th cousins, 3x removed)
26 degrees from Ivan Reitman
29 degrees from Harold Ramis

Answer 4

18 degrees from J. K. Simmons.

19 degrees from Annie Potts. 13th cousin once removed. MRCA Gaynor (ferch Robert) Puleston (abt 1495 - ?).

21 degrees from Segourny Weaver. 17th cousin once removed. MRCA Reynold Grey (1362 - 1440).

23 degrees from Dan Ackroyd.

24 degrees from Kristen Wiig. 19th cousin once removed. MRCA John Hamilton IV of Cadzow (abt 1371 - abt 1407),

24 degrees from Ivan Reitman.

24 degrees from Max von Sydow. 12th cousin 3 times removed. MRCA David Drummond (abt 1515 - abt 1571),

25 degrees from Melissa McCarthy.

28 degrees from Charles Dance.

28 degrees from Harold Ramis.

30 degrees from Bill Murray.

Answer 5

Max von Sydow -  21st cousins three times removed

Sigourney Weaver - 22nd cousins 7 times removed

Annie Potts - 25th cousins three times removed

Kristen Wiig - 28th cousins

Answer 6

I'm 21 degrees from Dan Aykroyd, 28 degrees from Charles Dance, 25 degrees from Melissa McCarthy, 30 degrees from Bill Murray, 20 degrees from Annie Potts(23rd c 1xr), 28 degrees from Harold Ramis, 27 degrees from Ivan Reitman, 18 degrees from J. K. Simmons, 25 degrees from Max von Sydow (21st C 1xr), 21 degrees from Sigourney Weaver 21st c 1xr), 22 degrees from Kristen Wiig (26th c 1xr) and 27 degrees from Paddy Waldron (22nd c 1xr).

Answer 7

21 degrees from Annie Potts and J.K. Simmons and 22 degrees from Max von Sydow and Sigourney Weaver.  Closest relative is Max von Sydow at 11th cousin, 2 times removed.

Answer 8

33 degrees from Ivan Reitman

26 degrees from Dan Aykroyd

27 degrees from Charles Dance

32 degrees from Melissa McCarthy

35 degrees from Bill Murray

26 degrees from Annie Potts

36 degrees from Harold Ramis

27 degrees from J. K. Simmons

26 degrees from Max Von Sydow

28 degrees from Sigourney Weaver

30 degrees from Kristen Wiig

Answer 9

Closest to Max Von Sydow he's my 17th cousin once removed.

Answer 10

• 19 degrees to Charles Dance
• 19 degrees to J. K. Simmons
• 20 degrees to Annie Potts - 20C2xR 123 Common Ancesters
• 21 degrees to Sigourney Weaver - 11C 73 Common Ancesters
• 21 degrees to Dan Aykroyd
• 23 degrees to Kristen Wiig - 24C1xR 52 Common Ancesters
• 24 degrees to Carl Adolf von Sydow - 17C1xR 149 Common Ancesters
• 26 degrees to Ivan Reitman
• 26 degrees to Melissa McCarthy
• 29 degrees to Harold Allen Ramis
• 30 degrees to Bill Murray

Answer 11

This week's theme: (Who Ya Gonna Call?) Ghostbusters!

Steven is:

• 24 degrees from Annie Potts
• 25 degrees from J. K. Simmons
• 27 degrees from Max von Sydow
• 29 degrees from Dan Aykroyd (and have met!)
• 29 degrees from Sigourney Weaver
• 30 degrees from Melissa McCarthy
• 30 degrees from Kristen Wiig
• 32 degrees from Ivan Reitman
• 32 degrees from Charles Dance
• 35 degrees from Harold Ramis
• 36 degrees from Bill Murray (so far away...)

and 33 degrees from our Member of the Week, Paddy Waldron on our single family tree.

Answer 12

Dan Aykroyd - 25 degrees

Charles Dance - 30 degrees

Melissa McCarthy - 27 degrees

Bill Murray - 30 degrees

Annie Potts - 24 degrees (22nd cousin twice removed)

Harold Ramis - 31 degrees

Ivan Reitman - 30 degrees

J. K. Simmons - 20 degrees (17th cousin 4 times removed)

Max von Sydow - 26 degrees (20th cousin 3 times removed)

Sigourney Weaver - 21 degrees (9th cousin twice removed)

Kristin Wiig - 25 degrees (11th cousin once removed)

Answer 13

Well in this top count down, I am closest connected to Sigourney Weaver.

However, if you dial up old neighbors, I am only two degrees from the Tall Woman at the party.  In fact, I attended her first wedding.  Her sister is my second mother.

"And there ya have 'em."

Comments

Maybe if we start dancing, other people will join in!

*dances horribly*

Answer 14

Who ya gonna call...?

I am closely related to (by degrees and cousinship):

1) Kristin Wiig: 21 degrees & 12th cousins

2) Max von Sydow: 27 degrees & 20th cousins (I love Max)

3) J. K. Simmons: 21 degrees & 21st cousins

4) Sigourney Weaver: 21 degrees and 22nd cousins

5) Annie Potts: 22 degrees and 22nd cousins

Ghostbusters!

Answer 15

Almost certainly Sigourney Weaver; she's one of my father's DNA matches, in the "4th-6th cousin" range; likely through her (English) mother, since shared matches are a cluster of people in the UK and New Zealand, whose relationship to each other, let alone my father, is obscure. She shows as 20 degrees on the connection finder, though, which is tied with my closest connection for this week.