Jane Krakowski !

I started her tree here. Unknown Profile

If anyone wants to work on Jane's tree, feel welcome to take over. I'm off to get some sleep.

http://www.geni.com/people/Karol-Wodyński/6000000000617824614 according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Krakowski

Krakowski's father's family is entirely Polish and comes from Kraków,[6] and although she knows only a few words in Polish, her father and grandparents are fluent.[7]

http://www.mojawyspa.co.uk/artykuly/14671/Jane-Krakowski-Z-Krakowa-...

Thank you Linda and Erica! That's awesome.

Paternal grandparents were Emily Jamroz and Edward Krajkowski.
http://www.northjersey.com/obituaries/eleanore-i-galasso-dies-at-68...

https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XH4F-625

Edward's parents were Ignatz Wojciech Krajkowski and Bronislawa Rutkowski.

Emily's parents were Adam Jamroz and Eve Byczek.

Her mother's brother:
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Benoit&am...;

Maternal grandparents:
http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/r/o/b/Charles-E-Robar/WE...

Grandfather Triffle Benoit was the son of Harmisdas F. Benoit and Mary Dugan.

As familytreemaker shows, Jane's maternal grandmother was actually of Polish origin too.

Now can anybody connect Jane Krakowski to Emily Ratajkowski?

http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/VTFRANKL/2007-12/1198...

ENOSBURG FALLS, VT, July 4, 1955 --Girard J. Benoit, 42, son of Amanda
Beauchemin Benoit and the late Albert Benoit, died Saturday afternoon at
the Gingras farm in Sheldon where he was employed.

Survived by his brother Triffle Benoit (others)

Thank you , Jennefer! I added those.....still needs more to connect it.

The quickest path to AJ would likely be through Jane's 1/8th French-Canadian ancestry, since I assume AJ has French-Canadian relatives by marriage somewhere.

Harmisdas's parents were Treffle Benoit and Philomene Bernard. Here is much of their lineage:
http://worldconnect.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=PED&am...

Right you are, Jennifer. Was able to connect Jane pretty quickly with your great research

http://www.geni.com/path/Erica-Howton+is+related+to+Jane-Krakowski?...

However her tree is not yet reaching AJ.

AJ - I know you have a tree "end" into Quebec somewhere. Maybe we can find it and expand it to meet Jane's FC tree?

Unknown Profile Unknown Profile maybe you can take a look into Jane Kranowski's French Canadian tree & AJ's?

Erica, are you related to Taylor Lautner? I noticed a woman named Sabine Martel from Nova Scotia on your family tree.
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According to a tree here on geni, Taylor's maternal grandmother was Ina Martel or Martell (married name Publicover), who was from Nova Scotia (here is her genealogy).
http://worldconnect.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=PED&am...

A relation seems all but certain. The problem is, Ina Martel seems too old to me to have given birth to Taylor's mother (mid 1960s). I think the geni tree is mistaken, but, it's possible it's just a generation off, and Ina was actually Lautner's great-grandmother.

I started a thread on Lautner and a few others a while back. I was hoping to conclusively identify Lautner's maternal grandparents, but it's been difficult. Still, the Martels are a good lead.
http://www.geni.com/discussions/142777

Here is a path through my parents - I'll try to make more the french connections. http://www.geni.com/path/Jane-Krakowski+is+related+to+A-J-Jacobs?fr...

Here is a path through my parents - I'll try to make more the french connections.

A.J. Jacobs is Jane Krakowski's 8th cousin twice removed's ex-wife's husband's 7th cousin's husband's nephew!
http://www.geni.com/path/Jane-Krakowski+is+related+to+A-J-Jacobs?fr...

I did some Gents hanging around Jane ... that doesn't sound right. :)

Thanks Jeff.

I had a feeling that this connection would be done by the time I got home from work. Great work Jennifer, Erica, and Jeff!

I did see some Gentes I mean gents hanging around Jane ... (ba da bing)

Thanks Jeff! It would be great to get the Polish side filled in also.

Unknown Profile they did it!

Unknown Profile the tree you saw is good, at least at that generation; it's my stepfather's "outlaw" family. Whether it connects to Taylor Lautner I couldn't say because I don't know his tree. Get it entered on Geni and we can more easily see if it does connect; I can probably get more data from my (hmm) late stepfather's mother's partner's wife's children's children's tree.

NB that is - my profile for Unknown Profile is good. And I believe there is more family "not" filled in on Geni.

I'm not sure I can enter trees on geni that aren't my own - can I? I don't have a paid account, so I couldn't find where to go - else I would have created trees for Lautner, Lerman, and Woodley myself.

I also couldn't definitively identify Lautner's maternal grandparents or the Martel connection.

This tree claims that Ina was Taylor's grandmother and the mother of Taylor's mother, Deborah Publicover - http://www.geni.com/search?search_type=people&names=Deborah+Pub...

But like I said, Ina could really only plausibly have been Lautner's ''great''-grandmother.

I found the connection - Ina Martel's great-great-great-great-grandparents Jean-Baptiste Martel and Marie-Josèphe Pouget/Poujet were also the great-great-great-grandparents of your relative Désiré Joseph Martell.

I found the connection - Ina Martel's great-great-great-great-grandparents Jean-Baptiste Martel and Marie-Josèphe Pouget/Poujet were also the great-great-grandparents of your relative Désiré Joseph Martell.

Any Geni member can add on to existing profiles and extend trees. Pro gives you "additional rights."

I'll send you collaboration request and a manager request for my outlaw in law; build from there to the Lautner tree and it will all connect. If you get a duplicate profile - merge.

Thanks. Can you create pages for Lerman and Woodley, please?

I thought out of all the genealogies I've done, theirs were among the most interesting. Lerman has grandparents born in 4 different countries, which is extremely rare. Woodley has a uniquely Louisianian blend of races and cultures on her mother's side.

Woo-hoo! Thank you to everyone -- Erica, Jennifer, Linda and Jeff (and anyone else I'm missing).
This is great. You are awesome.
The interview just got confirmed -- I'm speaking to her tomorrow. I'll let her know about what you guys did to figure out her heritage. She'll be fascinated!
AJ

The interview got delayed -- but now it's finally happening today. Let me know if you have any questions you want me to ask her.

Unknown Profile anything you in Poland might want to know?

http://www.geni.com/path/Ulf-Martinsson+is+related+to+Jane-Krakowsk...

Ask her if she can guess which Kings and queens that are her relatives.

( Maybe this was a bit too late )...