Another "We're Related" Celebrity DNA Match That Looks Legit

It looks like Mom and I actually might have another legit famous cousin, this time via Josiah Freeman (1763-1824): actor Chace Crawford! (I had to look him up, I'm a bit behind on who most of the newer actors are).

Although the app has predicted many famous cousins, I don't find most of them credible because the app seems to add ancestors I have not vetted nor particularly believe.  The only ones I have believed so far besides the Chace Crawford estimate is actually former President Barack Obama and Genea-Musings' own Randy Seaver :-)



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We're Related: I Broke Down and Downloaded the App

The first estimated famous relation was the only one I expected.  I do indeed believe that I am a 6th cousin to President Obama through my mother's maternal upline.  Our 4th great grandmothers were sisters, daughters of John Wilson and Ruth Welborn of North Carolina, Kentucky, and Illinois. I discovered this years ago when I first started my genealogy in earnest

I'm referring to the Ancestry app called "We're Related."

Judy G. Russell of the Legal Genealogist was also predicted to be related to the President, but found the actual connection to be unlikely, or at least unprovable as presented.  The other predicted relations she was given were also spurious, as have most of the ones I've been given have been.  I would be happy to claim Benjamin Franklin and Abraham Lincoln as distant cousins, but I'm not sure I believe the way the app estimates the relationships.  Still, it might be right once in awhile.

Randy Seaver at Genea-Musings has done a number of interesting posts on the topic.





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