Ancestry of
Ellen DeGeneres

Comedienne and TV Personality

Alfred George DeGeneres

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• • Great-grandfather of Ellen DeGeneres — 4th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 8 
  • Father:
  • Joseph C. DeGeneres 
  • Mother:
  • Mary Whittemore   
  • Birth Date:
  • 2 Jan 1867 
  • Birth Location:
  • New Orleans, Orleans, Louisiana 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Death Date:
  • 20 Feb 1947 
  • Death Location:
  • Shreveport, Caddo, Louisiana 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Forest Park Cemetery, Shreveport, Caddo, Louisiana 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Julia E. Billiu
  • Marriage Date:
  • 6 Jan 1888 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Lafourche Parish, Louisiana 
  • Child:

  Elliot Everett DeGeneres (Ahnentafel No:4 )

• Sources for Alfred George DeGeneres

  • ¹ Federal Census, Louisiana, Rapides, 1880, Alexandria, E.D. 37, p. 13, Image 13 of 68.
  • ² Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 02/21/2023).
  • ³ Louisiana, Deaths Index, 1850-1875, 1894-1956, Death record for Alfred George Degeneres.
  • ⁴ Louisiana, U.S., Compiled Marriage Index, 1718-1925, Marriage record for Alfred Degeneres and Julia E. Billiu.
  • ⁵ U.S., World War II Draft Cards Young Men, 1940-1947, Draft registration for son Everett Elliott DeGeneres.
  • 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.

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