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Taylor Swift Is Distantly Related to Emily Dickinson, Genealogy Site Reveals

Taylor Swift is related to Emily Dickinson, according to a new genealogy study by Ancestry. Get the details.

According to a new genealogy study from the company Ancestry, the 34-year-old pop star is distantly related to American literary icon Emily Dickinson, whom Swift can now call “cousin.” Ancestry’s findings, which were announced Monday (March 4), show that both Swift and the poet — who was born in 1830 and passed away at 55 years old in 1886 — are descended from the same 17th century English immigrant. Many years later, Scott and Andrea Swift welcomed their firstborn daughter on Dec. 13, 1989, in West Reading before eventually moving to Nashville — and the rest was history.

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