CELEBRITY GENEALOGY

7 Things You Didn’t Know about Prince’s Roots

It’s still hard to believe that Prince Rogers Nelson — better known simply as Prince — is no longer with us, though his music and talent will linger forever. As today would have been his 60th birthday, it seems a fitting time for a modest tribute looking into his past — and by that, I mean his pre-Minnesota, pre-purple, ancestral past. Here are a few of the discoveries I found scattered in the branches of his family tree:

• Among the surnames that appear in Prince’s family tree are Bonnell…