Genealogy is used to track family trees.

Sometimes,genetic genealogy can even solve cold cases.

Others, it can be used to simply find interesting familial connections that people didn’t know about before.

Then, she talked about the ancestral populations that connect the two famous women.

AsPeoplenotes, Schroeder loves true crime.

Newman replied, “I love this for you,” and Schroeder responded, “Seriously wild.

What a way to end the year.”

However, that wasn’t the end of the story.

After her initial post, Newman connected Gypsy Rose and Schroeder to another “Vanderpump Rules” star.

She and Schroeder have also been close friends for a while.

Thanks to Newman’s research, the friends now know they’re family.

In anInstagrampost, Newman wrote that she’d previously discovered that Schroeder and Maloney were distantly related.

Schroeder and Maloney, “are 9th cousins once removed.

[…] Gypsy is 11th cousins once removed with Katie and 11 cousins with Stassi.”

Maloney commented on the post: “Didn’t have this on my bingo card!”

and Newman replied with laughing emojis.

Shortly after her release, “The Prison Confessions of Gypsy Rose Blanchard” aired on Lifetime.