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Taylor Swift

Ancestry of
Taylor Swift

Singer and Songwriter


Who is Taylor Swift?

Taylor Swift is an American country music singer and song-writer born on December 13, 1989, in Pennsylvania. She is said to be the youngest song-writer ever hired by the Sony/ATV publishing house and in 2008 she received a Best New Artist nomination at the Grammy Awards for her first album. At the 2010 Grammy Awards, Taylor Swift's second album Fearless won the Album of the Year award making her the youngest ever to receive that award. The album was also the first in history to receive the American Music Award, Academy of Country Music Award, Country Music Association Award, and Grammy Award for Album of the Year in the same year. She has also added acting to her resume with appearances in both movies and television episodes.

Famous Kin

Taylor Swift has a number of famous kin. One of the more interesting is fellow singer Bing Crosby. Bing is one of the best-selling recording artists of the 20th century with over a half a billion records in circulation. Taylor Swift is also a direct descendant of Mayflower passenger Richard Warren and has a number of presidential kin including Ulysses S. Grant and Franklin D. Roosevelt. She has connections to the Old West through her kinship to Wild Bill Hickok and Laura Ingalls-Wilder.


Some of the most recently added connections of famous kin for Taylor Swift

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Danny Ainge

NBA Player and Coach

11th cousin 1 time removed
via Gov. Thomas Prence

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Alice French

(aka Octave Thanet)
Novelist and Short Story Writer

7th cousin 4 times removed
via George Watson

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Alice French

(aka Octave Thanet)
Novelist and Short Story Writer

5th cousin 3 times removed
via Thomas Tupper Jr.

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Marcus Morton

16th and 18th Governor of Massachusetts

3rd cousin 5 times removed
via Thomas Tupper Jr.

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Zach Braff

TV, Film and Stage Actor

12th cousin
via William Collier

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Zach Braff

TV, Film and Stage Actor

11th cousin 1 time removed
via Jane Clark

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Ben Ames Williams

Novelist and Short Story Author

7th cousin 5 times removed
via John Johnson

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William Jennings Bryan

41st U.S. Secretary of State

9th cousin 2 times removed
via Gov. Thomas Prence

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William Jennings Bryan

41st U.S. Secretary of State

9th cousin 2 times removed
via Edward Bangs

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Austin Butler

TV and Movie Actor

12th cousin
via William Collier

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Austin Butler

TV and Movie Actor

11th cousin 1 time removed
via Jane Clark

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Amber Stevens West

TV and Movie Actress

11th cousin 1 time removed
via Nicholas Snow

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Shadoe Stevens

Radio Disc Jockey

11th cousin
via Nicholas Snow

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Lindsay Wagner

TV and Movie Actress

11th cousin 2 times removed
via Gov. Thomas Prence

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Lindsay Wagner

TV and Movie Actress

11th cousin 1 time removed
via Samuel Mayo

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Lindsay Wagner

TV and Movie Actress

11th cousin 1 time removed
via Edward Bangs

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Brewster H. Shaw

NASA Astronaut

10th cousin 2 times removed
via Stephen Hopkins

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William Durant

Co-Founder of General Motors and Founder of Frigidaire

9th cousin 1 time removed
via Richard Warren

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Henry Crapo

14th Governor of Michigan

7th cousin 3 times removed
via Richard Warren

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Lizzie Doten

American Poet

6th cousin 5 times removed
via Francis Billington

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Lizzie Doten

American Poet

7th cousin 3 times removed
via Richard Warren

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Lizzie Doten

American Poet

6th cousin 6 times removed
via Stephen Hopkins

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Zoe Kazan

TV, Movie and Stage Actress

12th cousin 1 time removed
via James Olmstead

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Zoe Kazan

TV, Movie and Stage Actress

7th cousin
via Jireh Swift

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Douglas Trumbull

Film Special Effects Pioneer

10th cousin 1 time removed
via William Sabin

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Taylor Swift photo by Eva Rinaldi (CC BY-SA 2.0)