Duba wurin da ke ƙasa sannan ka amsa tambayar daga baya a cikin harshe ɗaya kamar yadda wurin yake:  Passage: An haifi DeGeneres kuma ya tashi a Metairie, Louisiana, zuwa Elizabeth Jane (née Pfeffer, haifaffen 1930), mai ilimin magana, da Elliott Everett DeGeneres (c.1925<unk>2018), wakilin inshora. Tana da ɗan'uwa guda, Vance, mawaƙi kuma furodusa. Tana da asalin Faransa, Ingilishi, Jamusanci, da Irish. An haife ta a matsayin Masanin Kimiyya na Kirista. A shekara ta 1973, iyayenta sun nemi rabuwa kuma sun sake aure a shekara mai zuwa. Ba da daɗewa ba, mahaifiyar Ellen ta auri Roy Gruessendorf, wani mai sayar da kaya. Betty Jane da Ellen suka ƙaura tare da Gruessendorf daga yankin New Orleans zuwa Atlanta, Texas. Vance ya zauna tare da mahaifinsa. A cikin watan Fabrairun 2011 na wasan kwaikwayonta, ta gaya wa masu sauraronta na studio game da wata wasika daga New England Historic Genealogical Society da ke tabbatar da cewa ita ce dan uwan 15 ga Catherine, Duchess na Cambridge, ta hanyar kakanninsu na Thomas Fairfax.Lokacin da take da shekaru 15 ko 16, mahaifinta ya yi mata fyade. DeGeneres ta kammala karatu daga Makarantar Sakandare ta Atlanta a watan Mayu na 1976, bayan kammala karatunta na farko a makarantar sakandare a Makarantar Sakandare ta Grace King a Metairie, Louisiana. Ta koma New Orleans don halartar Jami'ar New Orleans, inda ta yi karatun digiri a fannin sadarwa. Bayan semester daya, ta bar makaranta don yin aikin clerical a kamfanin lauya tare da dan uwanta, Laura Gillen. Ayyukanta na farko sun haɗa da aiki a J. C. Penney, kuma ta zama mai ba da sabis a T.G.I. Juma'a da wani gidan abinci, mai zanen gida, mai masaukin baki, kuma mai ba da sabis. Tana ba da labarin yawancin ƙuruciyarta da ƙwarewar aikinta a cikin aikinta na ban dariya.  Tambaya: menene sunan dan uwan DeGeneres?
Laura Gillen (mai suna)