Your Famous Relatives

Familysearch.org has a fun new tool that shows your relationship to famous people. A fun thing to see. The photos below are from people who are your distant cousins. The program also shows how you are related. The author Jane Austen, George Washington and Abraham Lincoln are cousins. Some of your cousins came over on the Mayflower.

If you would like to do this fun thing yourself, you need an account on familysearch.org. This is free and run by the Church of the Latter Day Saints. Enter yourself and parents and perhaps grandparents and you will have a complete genealogy going way back in time. And then you can see all the famous folks (and infamous folks) in your family tree.