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According to the world’s largest online family ancestry database Ancestry.com, former President George W. Bush and presidential contender Mitt Romney are cousins — 10th cousins, twice removed. Indeed, the Ancestry.com, historians found that “[Mitt] Romney is actually related to six past presidents — more than any other 2012 GOP contestant.” It turns out that Romney shares a similar bloodline to fellow candidate (and Mormon) Jon Huntsman. Romney’s great-great-grandfather, an early Mormon missionary, is actually Huntsman’s great-great-great-grandfather. The “Romney-Hunstman-George W. Bush connection comes through Anne Marbury Hutchinson, who was a religious-freedom advocate in early 1600s.” Granted, none of this has any bearing on the candidates’ qualifications for the presidency. It does, however, provide great fodder for a potentially hilarious family reunion.
Whichever candidate has the most genealogical ties to the British Monarchy always wins according to Burkes' Peerage...who have never been wrong!
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12 Jan 12
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Originally posted by kmax87Well then if that is the case, Romney and Obama are cousins as well.
I don't have the source other than a friend posting this on fb.
According to the world’s largest online family ancestry database Ancestry.com, former President George W. Bush and presidential contender Mitt Romney are cousins — 10th cousins, twice removed. Indeed, the Ancestry.com, historians found that “[Mitt] Romney is actually related to six past o have never been wrong!
Do we all concur?
Or are their dissenters in the ranks?
According to a New York Post article entitled “Cousins by Dozens: Fruitful Search Through Family Trees” written by Ginger Adams Otis on October 28, 2007, Barack Obama is George W. Bush’s 11th cousin enjoying a closer relationship than former Vice-President Dick Cheney who is George W. Bush’s 9th cousin once removed, while Barack Obama is Dick Cheney’s 8th Cousin
see article here:
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/item_GlQyuAX004sAjoXfnJ7fAI;jsessionid=33B756FBE61D2927F6B0C78AC0EE4AD8
CBS video report here:
According to Rosemary E. Bachelor, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, historian and genealogical publisher, Obama’s is related to “at least eight American presidents (sharing) common ancestors, (with) 1. James Madison [Edwin and Martha (Eltonhead) Conway], 2. Woodrow Wilson [Edward and Elizabeth (Blossom) FitzRandolph], 3. Harry Truman [Mareen Duvall], 4) Gerald Ford [Joseph and Rose (Allen) Holley], 5. Lyndon Johnson [Phillip and Maria (Schmidt) Ament], 6. Jimmy Carter [Adrian and Mary (Disharoone) Gordy], 7. George Bush Sr. and 8. George Bush Jr. [Gov. Thomas and Mary (Richards) Hinckley].”
Obama is also a distant cousin to Katharine Hepburn, Brad Pitt, Christopher Reeve, Winston Churchill and astronaut John Glenn, but Obama genealogical pedigree does not stop here.
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, historian and genealogical publisher, Rosemary E. Bachelor, further documents that Obama does have European royalty- “from Edward Fitz Randolph back to William I, King of Scots, and from Martha Eltonhead back to Edward I, King of England. [See Gary Boyd Roberts, The Royal Descents of 600 immigrants (2008: Baltimore).] ”
http://www.infowars.com/president-obamas-rise-due-to-blue-blood-ancestry-or-power-of-american-dream/
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12 Jan 12
Originally posted by kmax87At this point, if I'm not your sixth uncle twice-removed then somebody was failing on the job. Heck, I put my pants on one leg at a time just like Romney. I just don't have magic underwear and my dad's millions to fall back on.
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According to the world’s largest online family ancestry database Ancestry.com, former President George W. Bush and presidential contender Mitt Romney are cousins — 10th cousins, twice removed. Indeed, the Ancestry.com, historians found that “[Mitt] Romney is actually related to six past ...[text shortened]... o have never been wrong!
Do we all concur?
Or are their dissenters in the ranks?
If he gets elected I've already accelerated those lost years in my mind and I can already hear the usual suspects explaining to us that he was really a liberal despite the fact that he cut taxes and regulations and thus cratered the economy.
13 Jan 12
Originally posted by kmax87My brother, who has been working on the family tree for a decade or more, says that we're also related to the Bush family in similar manner. My paternal grandfather came from Kennebunkport, Maine, which lends credence to the claim.
I don't have the source other than a friend posting this on fb.
According to the world’s largest online family ancestry database Ancestry.com, former President George W. Bush and presidential contender Mitt Romney are cousins — 10th cousins, twice removed. Indeed, the Ancestry.com, historians found that “[Mitt] Romney is actually related to six past ...[text shortened]... o have never been wrong!
Do we all concur?
Or are their dissenters in the ranks?
I personally prefer Ron Paul, with whom I have no connection genetically.