Ancestry of
Ellen DeGeneres

Comedienne and TV Personality

Betty Jane Pfeffer

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• • Mother of Ellen DeGeneres — 2nd Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 3 
  • Father:
  • William Dick Pfeffer 
  • Mother:
  • Mildred Morrill   
  • Birth Date:
  • 20 May 1930 
  • Birth Location:
  • New Orleans, Orleans, Louisiana 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Elliot Everett DeGeneres Jr.
  • Marriage Date:
  • 7 Nov 1952 
  • Marriage Location:
  • New Orleans, Orleans, Louisiana 
  • Child:

  Ellen DeGeneres (Ahnentafel No:1 )

  • Notes: 

  • Betty Pfeffer's given name is also seen as Elizabeth.

• Additional marriages for Betty Jane Pfeffer

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  • Spouse:
  • Roy Gruessendorf

• Sources for Betty Jane Pfeffer

  • ¹ Federal Census, LA, Orleans Parish, 1940, New Orleans, E.D. 36-76, Sheet 9A, Image 20 of 55.
  • ² Louisiana Parish Marriages, 1837-1957, Marriage record for Elliott Everett Degeneres and Betty Jane Pfeffer.
  • ³ New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S., Marriage Records Index, 1831-1964, Marriage record for Elliott Everett Degeneres and Betty Jane Pfeffer.
  • ⁴ Sun Herald (Biloxi, Mississippi), 02 FEB 1993, p. 2, Obituary for mother Mildred Morrill Pfeffer.
  • ⁵ Times-Picayune (New Orleans, Louisiana), 05 FEB 1970, Obituary for father W Dick Pfeffer.
  • ⁶ Rietwiesner, William Addams, comp. and Christopher Challender Child, et. al., The Ancestry of Catherine Middleton, Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2011), 84.
  • ⁷ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 355.
  • ⁸ Wikipedia, "Betty DeGeneres", (accessed 05/09/2015).

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