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
Alice French
(aka Octave Thanet)
Novelist and Short Story Writer
7th cousin 4 times removed
via George Watson
Alice French
(aka Octave Thanet)
Novelist and Short Story Writer
5th cousin 3 times removed
via Thomas Tupper Jr.
Marcus Morton
16th and 18th Governor of Massachusetts
3rd cousin 5 times removed
via Thomas Tupper Jr.
William Jennings Bryan
41st U.S. Secretary of State
9th cousin 2 times removed
via Gov. Thomas Prence
William Durant
Co-Founder of General Motors and Founder of Frigidaire
9th cousin 1 time removed
via Richard Warren
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Taylor Swift photo by Eva Rinaldi (CC BY-SA 2.0)
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