Agencies :
Recent findings from Ancestry have unveiled an
unexpected familial link between global pop
sensation Taylor Swift and esteemed 19th-century
poet Emily Dickinson. According to the American genealogy company, both Swift and Dickinson are sixth cousins thrice removed, tracing their ancestry back to a 17th-century English immigrant who
settled in Windsor, Connecticut.
“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),” Ancestry told TODAY.
Swift, 34, hails from West Reading, Pennsylvania, where she was born to Andrea and Scott Swift in 1989. Her family’s lineage remained rooted in Connecticut for six generations before eventually migrating
to northwestern Pennsylvania, where they
intermarried with the Swift family line.
Meanwhile, Dickinson, who is often regarded as one of the most important figures in American poetry, was born and raised in Amherst, Massachusetts, where she passed away at the age of 55 in 1886. Despite her
prolific output of thousands of poems, only 10 were published during her lifetime. A majority of her work was published posthumously after her younger sister Lavinia found her collection of nearly 1,800 poems.
