Janis Joplin

yes she was not married,according to her line of family history list she hows to me as distant cousin through the chastain side i ask other extended family if its reue they went what no way and looked at what i was looking at it just states that she was related to someone else inside the family of my great aunt on the chastain side who they married

I'm supposed to be related, but my lines say it is direct. I know that can't be right. We must be distant cousins, but I'm lost.

That is what i see..Janis Joplin is your 9th cousin twice removed.
Sie → Bill Ray Lang (your father) → Carrie Belle Lang (his mother) → Ida Holder (her mother) → John Henry Mullinax (her father) → Elbert C. Mullinax (his father) → Elizabeth Mullinax (his mother) → Thomas Goss, Jr. (her father) → Frances "Fanny" (Sherman) Goss (his mother) → Capt. John Sherman, Sr. (her father) → Michael Shearman (his father) → Samuel Sherman (his father) → Edmond Sherman (his brother) → David Sherman (his son) → Jacob Sherman (his son) → David Sherman (his son) → Jacob Sherman (his son) → Jacob Galush Sherman (his son) → Stella Mae Sherman (his daughter) → Laura Mildred East (her daughter) → Dorothy Bonita Joplin (her daughter) → Janis Joplin (her daughter)