My Adoption & Genealogy

In addition to birth siblings, cousins, aunts, uncles and other relations, I discovered I am related to some famous cousins as I dig into a cool tool on familysearch.org. I have also discover that I have a 4th cousin 1x removed at the end of my own road and had no idea until her brother did a DNA test. It’s like a big puzzle to figure out the genealogy! (note: “x removed” means a different generation either before or after mine). And in the last week, I discovered more Purvis family living in Ontario. 

Here are a few of my famous cousin discoveries: 

• Abraham Lincoln, US President, 8th cousin 4x removed
• Agatha Christie, author, 10th cousin 2x removed
• Amelia Earhart, aviation pioneer, 6th cousin 2x removed
• Diana Spencer, Princess of Wales, 10th cousin (no, I am not in line for the throne) 
• Elvis Presley, musician, actor, 11th cousin
• Franklin D Roosevelt, US President, 8th cousin 4x removed
• Gordie Howe, hockey player, 12th cousin 1x removed
• John F Kennedy, US President, 9th cousin 3x removed
• John Wayne, actor, 7th cousin 1x removed
• Marie Antionette, Queen of France, 7th cousin 7x removed
• Mark Twain, author, 6th cousin 6x removed
• Neil Armstrong, 1st man on moon, 12th cousin 2x removed
• Orville & Wilbur Wright, airplane inventors, 7th cousin 4x removed
• Samuel Morse, telegraph creator, 5th cousin 5x removed
• Theodore Roosevelt, US President, 9th cousin 4x removed
• Thomas Edison, inventor, 9th cousin 4x removed
• Walt Disney, animator, producer & theme park guru, 7th cousin 2x removed
• Winston Churchill, UK Prime Minister, 8th cousin 2x removed

It’s a very interesting journey!!