We’re Related – Or, Are We?

We’re Related is an app connected to Ancestry.com.  It is available through iTunes and Google Play.  I learned about this app from a post on GeneaMusings.  It is a great site!

It searches through the trees on the Ancestry website to find connections between the various trees to help you find more relatives.  It shows famous potential relatives as well as your Facebook friends if they have a tree on Ancestry.com.

It has not shown me any common ancestors with Facebook friends yet (apparently none of my Facebook friends have family trees on Ancestry), but it shows me at least one famous potential relative each day.

We’re Related – Or, Are We? is going to be a weekly posting sharing with you the potential relatives that Ancestry has shown me via their We’re Related app. All of these are *potential* relatives.  None of the relationships have been proven or confirmed yet.

As I am able to prove or disprove each potential relationship, I will make a post about what I find and will cross-link the posts.

Week of May 28-June 3, 2017
Potential Relative	Common Ancestor	Great-grandparent Connection
Sam Walton	Private	Callie James
Neil Patrick Harris	Hannah Culmer	Annie Black
Thomas Watson	George Watson	Lula Carter
Cary Grant	Private	Callie James
Cab Calloway	George Anderson	W. P. Fowler
Jane Austen	Mary Eure	Callie James
Julia Child	James Keith	A. J. Gunter

I don’t know why two of the common ancestors would be marked “Private”.  Either someone was forgetful when adding in the information and didn’t mark the ancestor as “deceased” OR maybe their family tree is private.  As I understand it, Ancestry doesn’t show information on living people to anyone but the tree owner or those that have the owner’s permission to see the information.  I’m sure these two folks are long gone by now, especially considering the fact that ALL of my great-grandparents have been dead for 50+ years!