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A few days before the release of A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, a movie starring Tom Hanks about children's television host Fred Rogers, a representative for Ancestry.com told CBS News that the two men were related: We have no reason to doubt Ancestry.com's claim. However, some readers may not quite understand just how distant a distant cousin really is. The genealogy website reported that Rogers and Hanks are sixth cousins who share a 5x great-grandfather (or a great-great-great-great-great-grandfather). Here's how Ancestry.com described Hanks relationship to Rogers: While it may be true to say that Hanks and Rogers are related, phrasing their relationship this way is a bit misleading. We found varying estimates about just how closely related sixth cousins really are, but the general conclusion was that these relatives were very distant. For instance, a study by Ancestry DNA in 2014, based on British birth rates and census data, found that the average person in Britain had about 175,000 sixth cousins. While it's true that Hanks and Rogers are related, they are distant cousins who probably don't share much in terms of DNA. But don't let that take away from Hanks' performance as Rogers in A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood: We reached out to the Association of Professional Genealogists and the International Society of Genetic Genealogy. We will update this article when more information becomes available.
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