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The Ancestry.com genealogy website announcing that the "The Tortured Poets Department" singer Taylor Swift is related to Emily Dickinson.
Apparently, Swift and Dickinson are sixth cousins, three times removed.
"Swift and Dickinson both descend from a 17th century English immigrant Swift's 9th great-grandfather and Dickinson's 6th great-grandfather who was an early settler of Windsor, Connecticut."
“We need to calm down…but how can we when we have BIG news!?” a post on the Ancestry Instagram account reads. “Renowned American poets Taylor Swift and Emily Dickinson are 6th cousins, three times removed.”
Swift, 34, has referenced Dickinson in the past.