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Only just found out and im 43!

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Shockedandsadnow · 07/09/2024 09:38

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???

OP posts:
CalicoPusscat · 07/09/2024 09:40

I didn't know!

EvangelicalAboutButteredToast · 07/09/2024 09:41

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

Hungrycaterpillarsmummy · 07/09/2024 09:43

Nope, didn't know this!

ButterAsADip · 07/09/2024 09:44

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

HappyDane · 07/09/2024 09:44

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

VictorianScreenTime · 07/09/2024 09:46

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

invisiblecat · 07/09/2024 09:47

Whitney Houston was related to Dionne Warwick and Aretha Franklin.

familyissues12345 · 07/09/2024 09:47

Nope, also 43 here and had no idea!

MannishWater · 07/09/2024 09:47

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

MannishWater · 07/09/2024 09:47

Stevie is her first cousin on her mothers side.

MoodEnhancer · 07/09/2024 09:48

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

RichardMarxisinnocent · 07/09/2024 09:52

VictorianScreenTime · 07/09/2024 09:46

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

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.

Youmwarayoum · 07/09/2024 09:56

MannishWater · 07/09/2024 09:47

Stevie is her first cousin on her mothers side.

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

Billybobbbi · 07/09/2024 10:01

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.

SallyWD · 07/09/2024 10:17

Nope!

mamaduckbone · 07/09/2024 10:19

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

invisiblecat · 07/09/2024 10:20

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

BCBird · 07/09/2024 10:21

In the dark too OP

IamAutumn · 07/09/2024 10:24

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

MrsSchrute · 07/09/2024 10:26

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?!

SphinxOfBlackQuartz · 07/09/2024 10:38

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.

Blondeshavemorefun · 07/09/2024 10:56

We need a diagram of family tree

SpiderGwen · 07/09/2024 11:03

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.

Misthios · 07/09/2024 11:04

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.

HappyDane · 07/09/2024 11:04

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