Using Famous Relatives
I love the idea!!
Is there a way to have it work my husbands family? Or is it just for the main person on the account?
If it is workable for other family members in your tree an someone walk me through how to do that search?
Thank you very much!
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Nope, it doesn't work for your spouse's relatives. The only way I could figure out that yes, my father-in-law's first cousin is on the list was to temporarily change my profile into my child's. (I did it on the beta site to keep confusion to a minimum.)
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it can easily work for your husbands family . . . just have him create an account . . . and then use that account to check.
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@ Catweb1435 - thanks for posting your query to FamilySearch Community. I agree with Dennis - keep it simple. Your husband needs to set up his own account and access his own famous relatives, if any.
Kind Regards,
John L. Kennedy.
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How strong are the possibilities of being related to the famous people? Mine showed dozens of US Presidents. All sorts of famous entertainers- scientists etc. How can that possibly be true??
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If every link in your tree is correct and is not an adopted link the relation would be true.
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@PattyMorman As you check your relationship to those famous people, you will likely find that for the great majority of them, you are related via a common ancestor way back in the 1500s or 1600s. I am also related to a few dozen presidents and checking the earlest one, I see this:
Checking the most recent one on the list I see this:
Just keep in mind this activity is not showing famous direct line ancestors. Each of us will have few if any of those. It is showing famous distant cousins of which we all have millions, many of which are on the list of famous people included in this activity. It's an interesting way to see how we are all connected if you go back far enough but is not a way to earn any type of bragging rights or to share any type of blame.
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thanks! good points.
I do like it that Princess Diana is my10th cousin - I know it's distant.
I do hope that the links are actually accurate however...would take a lot of work to find that out I guess..
Meanwhile, I know I have DAR ancestor from Rev War and a 6th cousin Governor in same family. DAR is strict and I feel their acceptance of my ancestor is very reliable. So maybe I do have dozens of other Presidential distant cousins. as Family Search says but..who knows?
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Another way to find famous relatives is with the RelativeFinder.org website. You can also find out if you are related to your friends or or any one else.
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Can anyone explain why people show up in my famous relatives and then disappear? It showed Abraham Lincoln on my famous relatives page and when I went back to print it, it was gone.
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When someone makes a change in the tree it could change the links between people in the tree.
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