Yes, there are famous people out there. And you are probably related to some of them. Today I'm
going to talk about whether or not you can find out which famous ones you're related to through
Ancestry DNA. Howdy, welcome to Family History Fanatics, where we love helping you climb your
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we are asked about DNA. DNA is great because we can match with various distant cousins. Maybe
even out to tenth cousins if you're lucky enough. And when you think about who a tenth cousin is,
we are probably all related to some famous people. In fact, if you've ever played, you know,
Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon, where you figure out how you're related to Kevin Bacon. It only takes a
few people that you find out that you are closely related to Kevin Bacon. In fact, I think when I've
played it before and four degrees. That's how far away from Kevin Bacon I am. Through people that
I know, not through people that I'm related to, but through people that I know. But Kevin Bacon
isn't the only famous person out there. And you might want to know whether or not you're related
to other famous people. And whether Ancestry will tell you if you're related to other famous people.
I went and looked at the Ancestry DNA website. And a quick perusal of everything on it. NO!
I don't find a single list of famous people that I'm related to. But don't fret.
That doesn't mean Ancestry is not going to tell you that you're related to famous people.
However, there's caveat to that. Those famous people have to have tested. And they have to
have made their results be able to be matched with others. So, those are living famous people that
you might be related to you might find them on your match list. Somehow
my guess is of the 20 million people on Ancestry, you're probably not going to find
too many famous people in your match list. But I could be wrong. For instance, I have a relative
who is related to an actor in Hollywood who actually has his own IMDB page. Now he's not a,
you know, super big-name actor. But the fact of the matter is he has an IMDB page.
And she's his second cousin. So, that's a famous person, right? And that's really about the
extent that Ancestry is going to tell you about famous people. Now I know previously on 23andMe,
they had a feature where when they're talking about your haplogroup. They would also tell you
other people that were in that same haplogroup. They don't have that anymore, at least not
anywhere easy that I can find. However, the problem with using a haplogroup as being close
related to them or related to somebody is that, that haplogroup may go back hundreds or thousands
of years before you have a common ancestor. So, we're not talking tenth cousins. We're talking
20th or 30th or 40th cousins, for that matter. And that's basically just along that haplogroup line.
So, it's much more likely that you're actually related to that person through some other line.
It's just not on that haplogroup. So, if you're looking for famous relatives, you're probably
not going to find them on Ancestry. Now they may change and be showing this in someplace
else. I may have completely missed where this is at. And it is right there just, you know, staring
me in the face. But for the most part, they're not going to be showing you that you share DNA
with those famous relatives. Unless those famous people have already put their DNA on Ancestry.
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