We're all related to people who don't know that they are related to us and probably don't care. But it's a tenuous and distant relationship. The father one goes back, the more people we are somehow related to.
Well, he’s no relative of mine, then.
How about you? Do you need any money-grubbing relatives? I’m really good at spending other people’s money. I can go through two, three million bucks a week. I’m a big tipper.
Ambrose Bierce has a definition of genealogy that goes somewhat like: “tracing your ancestry back to an ancestor who didn’t particularly care to trace his.”