Only just found out and im 43!

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Did anyone else know that Stevie Wonder, Tracy Chapman and Samuel L Jackson are related to Janet , Micheal Jackson etc?? Like... The actually Jackson's. Cousins according to Janet Jackson herself !! Have I lived under a rock? I just never knew this. Did anyone else???

I didn't know!

I did hear this actually from a snippet of an interview.

Nope, didn't know this!

I found that out the other day too. Good old insta reels, eh?

I found out recently, and I'm older than you.

Proper cousins though or a “third cousins once removed” kind of cousin? It all sounds a bit Sir Walter Elliot to me😁

Whitney Houston was related to Dionne Warwick and Aretha Franklin.

Nope, also 43 here and had no idea!

I knew about Stevie Wonder, but not the others. Curious!

Stevie is her first cousin on her mothers side.

I didn’t know that either. What a talented family!

Just googled and Stevie Wonder is a 3rd cousin, so not the kind of cousin most of us would grow up with and know throughout our lives. I only know who my 3rs cousins are from doing my family tree.

Can you verify that? Would have thought that would be more public knowledge if it were true.

I need new glasses I read "Just found out I'm 43" 👓😁 was very interested in the how and why. Also didn't know the connection.

Nope!

I think I knew about Stevie Wonder but not the others.

I didn't know you were 43 either, OP.😉

In the dark too OP

Olivia de Havilland and Joan Fontaine were sisters who won Oscars for Acting and were cousins to the de Havilland aircraft family.

Janet said that Samuel L Jackson was a cousin, but in an earlier interview he said he was not related to Michael Jackson, so who knows?!

Can you verify that? Would have thought that would be more public knowledge if it were true

Janet Jackson's been saying it in a few places over the last few years.

Makes you wonder how many very talented people we miss out on because they don't have the right connections.

We need a diagram of family tree

I call bullshit.

Stevie Wonder being 3rd cousin once removed on her mother’s side is not “a cousin” - half the U.K. is about as interrelated as that! That’s sharing a great great grandparent.

Samuel L Jackson has said more than once he is not related to the (Janet and Michael) Jacksons. If there is a link it is extremely remote.

third cousins are fairly distant.

cousins = share grandparents
second cousins = share great grandparents
third cousins = share great great grandparents.

My great great grandparents were born in the 1820s to 1850s. 150-200 years ago. Many had LOTS of children, like 9 or 12. So I probably have dozens if not hundreds of third cousins and have no clue who any of them are. Third cousin is not a close family relationship.

Oh I agree. If it's 3rd cousin territory then that's just stupid.