I've had the We're Related app installed on my phone and hooked to my tree at Ancestry and my Facebook account for a few weeks. As of today, I've had about 42 suggestions. Some of them I know up to the point of the Most Recent Common Ancestor. My favorite suggestions are those who are Facebook friends. I will actually look into their side of the tree up to the MRCA or have them check it out. I think when you get to the 7th cousin point, if your family has been in the country(USA) since the early 1700s, then you are going to be kin to almost every other famous person with colonial lines.
Are any of them correct....who knows. I am way more interested in the Facebook Friends because those are(for the most part) real people. I did get a bit excited about Jimi Hendrix, Stephen King, Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson. The Miley Cyrus connection...not so much. I would say..take them with a grain of salt....or a block. If they help you to make a break thru in your research, that's great. However, I feel they are more for entertainment and a way of advertising.
| Person | Cousin | Side | MRCA | Surname Connection | Notes |
| Zachary Taylor | 3C5R | PGF | William Strother III | Elizabeth Putman | |
| Rachel Reeves | 4C3R | PGM | Reuban Manley | Reuban Manley | FB Friend |
| Benjamin Franklin | 4C9R | MGM | Sir Wm. Jones | James P Hitchcock | |
| Abraham Lincoln | 5C4R | PGF | Hancock Lee | Nancy Tyler | |
| Henry David Thoreau | 5C5R | PGM | Richard Church | James Morrow | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson | 5C5R | PGM | Giles Hopkins | James Morrow | |
| Blake Sheldon | 6C | MGM | Cain Acuff | Jonathan Acuff | |
| Theodore Roosevelt | 6C1R | PGF | Thomas Carter | Nancy Tyler | |
| Christinia Aguilera | 6C2R | PGF | John Carter | Elizabeth Putman | |
| Jimmy Hendrix | 6C2R | MGM | Elizabeth Ingo | Jonathan Acuff | |
| Helen Keller | 6C3R | PGF | Thomas Todd | Elizabeth Putman | |
| Mark Twain | 6C3R | MGF | Owen Griffith | Keziah Rigsby | |
| Bill Clinton | 7C | MGF | Beatrice Spier | Mary Pitman | |
| Brad Pitt | 7C1R | MGF | Elizabeth Blair | Frances Bolling | |
| Luke Bryan | 7C2R | MGF | John Bolling | Frances Bolling | |
| Kate Upton | 7C2R | PGM | Hannah Hopkins | James Morrow | |
| Jessica Simpson | 7C2R | MGF | Mary Crawford | Keziah Rigsby | |
| Barack Obama | 7C2R | MGF | David Lewis | Keziah Rigsby | |
| Jeannie S. | 7C2R | PGF | Frances Armistead | Nancy Tyler | FB Friend |
| Ann Coulter | 8C | MGF | Robert Bolling | Frances Bolling | |
| Carol W. | 8C | MGF | John Redford | John Redford | FB Friend |
| Whitney Houston | 8C | MGF | Patience Cotton | Mary Pittman | |
| Kristen Stewart | 8C | MGM | Thomas Nelson | Mason Combs | |
| Carrie Fisher | 8C1R | PGF | William Strother | Elizabeth Putman | |
| Miley Cyrus | 8C1R | PGF | Thomas Carter | Elizabeth Putman | |
| Marilyn Monroe | 8C1R | MGF | Anne Stith | Frances Bolling | |
| Melinda B. | 8C1R | MGF | Elizabeth Smith Crawford | Keziah Rigsby | FB Friend |
| Kurt Cobain | 8C1R | MGF | John Lewis | Keziah Rigsby | |
| W.C. Fields | 8C1R | MGF | Jane Crawford | Keziah Rigsby | |
| Britney Spears | 8C1R | MGF | John Lewis | Keziah Rigsby | |
| Winston Churchill | 8C1R | MGF | Kathrine Kennedy | Margaret Lauderdale | |
| Lady Gaga | 8C1R | PGM | Edward Richards | Nancy Harger | |
| Eminem | 8C1R | PGM | John Merryman | Nancy Harger | |
| Stephen King | 8C1R | PGM | Elizabeth Spring | Nathan Frizzell | |
| Matt Damon | 8C1R | PGM | John Gale | Nathan Frizzell | |
| Blake Lively | 8C2R | MGF | Robert Bolling | Frances Bolling | |
| Demi Lovato | 8C2R | MGF | Anne Bette | Frances Bowles | |
| Walt Disney | 8C2R | MGF | John Crawford | Keziah Rigsby | |
| Megan Z | 9C | PGF | Thomas Todd | Elizabeth Putman | FB Friend |
| Johnny Depp | 9C | MGF | William Randolph | Frances Bolling | |
| John F. Kennedy | 9C | MGF | John Randolph | Frances Bolling | |
| Sharlene Woodley | 9C | MGF | Julian Jarrell | Mary Pittman Luna |
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