Or a distant relative can either mean that they are very far away or they have the same blood as you but they're not from your grandma or grandpa but further along the lines on the family tree.
But instead, genealogists were using location to say, if you want more information, go here in my family tree and here's a link, or here's a folder where I've stored hundreds of photos related to the same thing.
They then downloaded not just the data from those accounts, but the private information of all the other users they have links to across the sprawling family trees on the website.
Prince Andrew, looking again at that genealogical tree, shook his head, laughing as a man laughs who looks at a portrait so characteristic of the original as to be amusing.