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Distant cousins of Mormon church presidents: Elvis, Shakespeare, Edison, Johnny Depp — even Barack Obama

RelativeFinder.org, a website developed by Brigham Young University, allows world leaders, religious authorities, famous artists, actors and even ordinary people (re: you) to discover if and how they are related to many celebrities and global figures of the past and present — or to masquerade as a deceased person to discover that individual’s famous relatives.

The only thing needed is a free account with the LDS Church’s official family history website, familysearch.org. The same login and password work on both websites, and use the same genealogical data to uncover relationships within seconds.

The Salt Lake Tribune used RelativeFinder to discover that former presidents of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from the past half-century have many interesting distant cousins, from traitors to heroes, presidents, kings, authors, scientists and entertainers.