Look Who’s Related: Kevin Bacon and Brad Pitt
Many, if not most, people in the western world have played the game Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon — a game where you try to find a connection between any actor and Kevin Bacon through the movies they have been in. Well, wouldn’t it be nice to play a similar game with genealogy? Now you can. For example, did you know that Kevin Bacon and Brad Pitt are 12th cousins thrice removed? Pretty neat. Here are a few of the most interesting paths:
Brad Pitt is Kevin Norwood Bacon’s 12th cousin thrice removed
Barack H. Obama, 44th President of the USA is Kevin Norwood Bacon’s 13th cousin twice removed
Elvis Aaron Presley is Kevin Norwood Bacon’s 16th cousin
Bill Gates is Kevin Norwood Bacon’s 13th cousin once removed
John Fitzgerald Kennedy is Kevin Norwood Bacon’s 17th cousin
Emperor Napoléon I of France is Kevin Norwood Bacon’s 17th cousin 8 times removed
Part of having the world family tree means that anyone can participate, and make it better. If you ever see any error in a relationship path, don’t hesitate to go in and fix it with sourced information. The more people we have working on our tree, the better it gets.