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Started by A.J. Jacobs on Friday, November 21, 2014
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A.J. Jacobs PRO
11/21/2014 at 10:00 AM

Hi Cousins!
I was wondering if anyone had any interest in trying to connect Meredith Vieira to the Big Tree?
She has a daytime talk show, and I know her a bit. (I even once went on Who Wants to be a Millionaire when she was hosting. I got up to the $32,000 mark, then screwed up big time, and went way back down to $1,000. Thankfully it's nowhere on the internet)

Anyway, I thought it'd be fun to get on her show and tell her about how we're all related and the Global Family Reunion.
Let me know when you have a chance.
Thanks!
AJ

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11/21/2014 at 11:13 AM

Vieira was born in Providence, Rhode Island,[1] and raised in nearby East Providence, to a homemaker mother and a doctor father, both first-generation Portuguese Americans.
Spouse(s) Richard M. Cohen (1986–present)
Children 3
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meredith_Vieira

Family
brother:Ed Vieira (older)
daughter:Lily Cohen
husband:Richard Cohen (married June 14, 1986; is legally blind as a result of having multiple sclerosis since his mid 20's; had surgery in March, 2000 for colon cancer)
son:Ben Cohen
son:Gabe Cohen

http://web.archive.org/web/20080321145229/http://www.hollywood.com/...

Private User
11/21/2014 at 11:40 AM

If it is the right Cohen, he connects to Randy.
http://www.geni.com/path/Yehuda-Flumenbaum+is+related+to+Randy-Scho...

???
Richard M. Cohen

http://www.geni.com/path/Ulf-Martinsson+is+related+to+Randy-Schoenb...
Erica Howton C
11/21/2014 at 12:00 PM

Great work Ulf!

Check the references in the profiles for

Meredith Vieira & Richard Merrill Cohen

And we can see if it's the same Richard Cohen
Erica Howton C
11/21/2014 at 12:04 PM

No - unfortunately it looks like a "different" Richard M. Cohen. But I think there's a good chance of finding a Geni connection through him, we just need to get more information about his family added to Geni.
Erica Howton C
11/21/2014 at 8:23 PM

And we're in.

Meredith Vieira is A.J. Jacobs' first cousin 10 times removed's wife's 10th great nephew's wife.

http://www.geni.com/path/A-J-Jacobs+is+related+to+Meredith-Vieira?f...

Looks like an illustrious R' David Katzenellenbogen, A.B.D. Keidaniai connector

Private User
11/21/2014 at 9:50 PM

That was all your work, well done!

http://www.geni.com/path/R-David-Katzenellenbogen-A-B-D-Keidaniai+i...
Erica Howton C
11/23/2014 at 9:30 PM

A.J. Jacobs we not only have an illustrious rabbinical connector between you & Meredith Vieira, there was a little Jewish exogamy in that tree, and suddenly half of Warren County Tennessee popped in ...

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