Taylor Swift is distantly related to Emily Dickinson, a poet the pop icon is thought to have long admired, according to genealogy website Ancestry, which announced the news on Instagram, stating that Swift and Dickinson are sixth cousins, three times removed.

Their roots have been traced to the same 17th-century English immigrant — Swift’s ninth great-grandfather and Dickinson’s sixth great-grandfather. Their shared relative was an early settler of Windsor, Connecticut.

“Taylor Swift’s ancestors remained in Connecticut for six generations until her part of the family eventually settled in northwestern Pennsylvania, where they married into the Swift family line,” Ancestry told Today.

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