Harrison Ford is my 13th cousin 1x removed by marriage to Calista Flockart. The ancestor that connect Calista and I, is John Field (1519 – 1587), my 13th great grandfather.
Ford was born at the Swedish Covenant Hospital in Chicago, Illinois to Christopher Ford (born John William Ford), an advertising executive and former actor, and Dorothy (née Nidelman), a former radio actress. A younger brother, Terence, was born in 1945. His father was Catholic and his mother was Jewish. Ford’s paternal grandparents, John Fitzgerald Ford and Florence Veronica Niehaus, were of Irish and German descent, respectively. Ford’s maternal grandparents, Harry Nidelman and Anna Lifschutz, were Jewish emigrants from Minsk, Belarus (at that time a part of the Russian Empire). When asked in which religion he and his brother were raised, Ford jokingly responded, “Democrat,” “to be liberals of every stripe”. In a television interview shown in August 2000, when asked about what influence his Irish Catholic and Russian Jewish ancestry may have had on his life as a person and as an artist, Ford humorously stated, “As a man I’ve always felt Irish, as an actor I’ve always felt Jewish.”
The genealogical chart shows that ancestor that Calista and I share:
Harrison Ford (1942 – )
husband of 13th cousin 1x removed
Calista Kay Flockhart (1964 – 2015)
Wife of Harrison Ford
Ronald Flockhart
Father of Calista Kay Flockhart
Jewell Floris Miller (1908 – 1973)
Mother of Ronald Flockhart
Dora May Brown (1894 – 1953)
Mother of Jewell Floris Miller
Chauncey Augustus Brown (1857 – 1918)
Father of Dora May Brown
James Monroe Brown (1821 – 1895)
Father of Chauncey Augustus Brown
Chad Brown (1779 – 1841)
Father of James Monroe Brown
Ruth Winsor (1751 – )
Mother of Chad Brown
Mercy Smith (1728 – 1776)
Mother of Ruth Winsor
Solomon Smith (1702 – 1771)
Father of Mercy Smith
Mercy Angell (1675 – 1721)
Mother of Solomon Smith
Ruth Field (1645 – 1727)
Mother of Mercy Angell
John Field (1616 – 1685)
Father of Ruth Field
William Field (1565 – 1623)
Father of John Field
John Field (1519 – 1587)
Father of William Field