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Wed Oct 24, 2012, 06:51 PM

rbrnmw (2,012 posts)

I am the 6th Cousin of GWB and his siblings GHWB my 5th Cousin

Last edited Wed Oct 24, 2012, 06:53 PM USA/ET - Edit history (1)

So this means I am probably also related to Mitt can someone just kill me now W was bad enough I don't think I can handle this one
I am also related to the Kennedy's on my Mother's side though JFK was like my 12th cousin twice removed
How many Commanders-in-Chief can you get in one family tree? When it’s former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney’s family tree, the answer is six.

According to Ancestry.com, the world’s largest online family history resource, Romney’s family tree connects him to Franklin D. Roosevelt, Calvin Coolidge, Franklin Pierce, Herbert Hoover, and both George H.W. and George W. Bush.

Romney is connected to Presidents George W. Bush (10th cousins, twice removed), George H. W. Bush (10th cousins, once removed) and Franklin D. Roosevelt (8th cousins, twice removed) through Ann Marbury Hutchinson, a key figure in the development of religious freedom in America and early settler of Rhode Island and New York.

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Reply I am the 6th Cousin of GWB and his siblings GHWB my 5th Cousin (Original post)
 rbrnmw Oct 2012 OP
LineReply I thought for a second I was on Ancestry.com. nt.
 OldDem2012 Oct 2012 #1
LineReply If Willard is elected he will do his best to see you dead
 Angry Dragon Oct 2012 #2
LineLineReply He'll baptize you though after the fact! (nt)
 TuxedoKat Oct 2012 #15
LineLineLineReply Do you then get to go to Kolob??
 Angry Dragon Oct 2012 #16
LineReply And?
 Spider Jerusalem Oct 2012 #3
LineLineReply almost the same here
 mercuryblues Oct 2012 #6
LineReply I am kin to Bush also, but by a different route...so I hope not to Romney!
 grasswire Oct 2012 #4
LineLineReply Samuel Bush was my Mother's Great Great Uncle
 rbrnmw Oct 2012 #9
LineReply That's pretty bad. I'm only a 7th cousin once removed from Richard Nixon.
 El Supremo Oct 2012 #5
LineLineReply I met Richard Nixon once in 1970.
 revolution breeze Oct 2012 #11
LineLineLineNew Reply I saw him in '68.
 El Supremo Oct 2012 #28
LineReply I am so sorry for your tragedy.
 juajen Oct 2012 #7
LineReply i'm the poor cousin of all of you and all those mentioned......donations welcome!
 Gin Oct 2012 #8
LineLineReply I'm very poor myself Maybe I can call up my cousin Mitt
 rbrnmw Oct 2012 #10
LineReply Back in the 70's my Grandfather said he was a distant cousin to GHWB.
 gordianot Oct 2012 #12
LineReply An article I recall reading years ago
 bongbong Oct 2012 #13
LineReply We go back to Andrew Jackson's wife
 Horse with no Name Oct 2012 #14
LineLineReply Ah, poor Rachel.
 no_hypocrisy Oct 2012 #18
LineReply We're probably related, too...
 Ms. Toad Oct 2012 #17
LineReply If you are the 6th cousin of GWB . . .
 markpkessinger Oct 2012 #19
LineLineReply I'm not sure but Samuel P. Bush
 rbrnmw Oct 2012 #20
LineLineLineReply That's not the way it works . . .
 markpkessinger Oct 2012 #21
LineLineLineLineNew Reply Oh ok thanks for explaining
 rbrnmw Oct 2012 #25
LineLineLineReply I think we should just take you out back and beat the shit out of you.
 A HERETIC I AM Oct 2012 #22
LineLineLineLineNew Reply I wanted to do that to myself ala Liar Liar
 rbrnmw Oct 2012 #32
LineLineLineNew Reply To make it clearer . . .
 markpkessinger Oct 2012 #23
LineLineLineLineNew Reply Yes thanks now I'm going to go throw up
 rbrnmw Oct 2012 #31
LineNew Reply Sucks to be you
 krawhitham Oct 2012 #24
LineNew Reply Thank God my grandparents were from Milan on BOTH sides.
 Drahthaardogs Oct 2012 #26
LineNew Reply I wouldn't worry about it.. Bush and Obama are related as well...
 Lightbulb_on Oct 2012 #27
LineLineNew Reply I wonder if I am related to Obama? Now that I would love!!!!!!!
 rbrnmw Oct 2012 #29
LineLineNew Reply Poor President Obama is related to Darth Cheney too
 rbrnmw Oct 2012 #30

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Wed Oct 24, 2012, 06:54 PM

OldDem2012 (3,526 posts)

1. I thought for a second I was on Ancestry.com. nt.

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Wed Oct 24, 2012, 06:54 PM

Angry Dragon (24,073 posts)

2. If Willard is elected he will do his best to see you dead

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Wed Oct 24, 2012, 07:57 PM

Star Member TuxedoKat (2,510 posts)

15. He'll baptize you though after the fact! (nt)

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Wed Oct 24, 2012, 07:59 PM

Angry Dragon (24,073 posts)

16. Do you then get to go to Kolob??

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Wed Oct 24, 2012, 06:54 PM

Star Member Spider Jerusalem (15,367 posts)

3. And?

I'm related to Obama, George W Bush, Bill Clinton, and Harry Truman. Pretty much any American who has significant colonial ancestry can probably find a relationship with any other American who shares that ancestry. It's not really very significant.

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Wed Oct 24, 2012, 06:57 PM

mercuryblues (934 posts)

6. almost the same here

John Adams, John Q adams, Bush, Grant. So this means we are all related. When can I expect my Xmas dinner invite?

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Wed Oct 24, 2012, 06:55 PM

grasswire (36,696 posts)

4. I am kin to Bush also, but by a different route...so I hope not to Romney!

Bush and I are both descended from John Howland and his wife Elizabeth Tilley, Mayflower Pilgrims.

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Wed Oct 24, 2012, 07:04 PM

rbrnmw (2,012 posts)

9. Samuel Bush was my Mother's Great Great Uncle

Not sure who else I am related to because our family tree was done before ancestry.com

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Wed Oct 24, 2012, 06:56 PM

Star Member El Supremo (13,153 posts)

5. That's pretty bad. I'm only a 7th cousin once removed from Richard Nixon.

Last edited Wed Oct 24, 2012, 09:37 PM USA/ET - Edit history (1)

And William McKinley somehow.

I wouldn't get too upset if I were you.

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Wed Oct 24, 2012, 07:15 PM

revolution breeze (871 posts)

11. I met Richard Nixon once in 1970.

He was at his alma mater Whittier College and a group of us kids from the elementary school nearby got to meet the President. Two years later the signs saying "Welcome to Whittier, Hometown of Richard Nixon" were taken down.

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Wed Oct 24, 2012, 09:38 PM

Star Member El Supremo (13,153 posts)

28. I saw him in '68.

When he was running for president.

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Wed Oct 24, 2012, 07:01 PM

Star Member juajen (7,892 posts)

7. I am so sorry for your tragedy.

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Wed Oct 24, 2012, 07:04 PM

Star Member Gin (6,990 posts)

8. i'm the poor cousin of all of you and all those mentioned......donations welcome!

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Wed Oct 24, 2012, 07:06 PM

rbrnmw (2,012 posts)

10. I'm very poor myself Maybe I can call up my cousin Mitt

lol

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Wed Oct 24, 2012, 07:17 PM

Star Member gordianot (6,478 posts)

12. Back in the 70's my Grandfather said he was a distant cousin to GHWB.

I never wanted to know how after he became famous. Yuck! I feel your pain.

My father claimed to be a distant cousin to John Kennedy through his mother's family.

At least I am not conflicted as a Democrat. Within 6 or 7 generations we all have thousands of distant relatives who would shock us.

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Wed Oct 24, 2012, 07:41 PM

bongbong (5,436 posts)

13. An article I recall reading years ago

 

Made the case that there is a secret aristocracy in America. Some guy did research like you did and found nearly all the presidents were related to European royalty and/or each other.

I don't remember anything else about the article. I read it years ago (pre-Internet days).

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Wed Oct 24, 2012, 07:44 PM

Horse with no Name (30,631 posts)

14. We go back to Andrew Jackson's wife

However, since the person I am related to was adopted by Andrew Jackson, it stops there.

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Wed Oct 24, 2012, 08:14 PM

no_hypocrisy (25,290 posts)

18. Ah, poor Rachel.

She didn't deserve the misery from the D.C. crowd.

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Wed Oct 24, 2012, 08:00 PM

Star Member Ms. Toad (9,028 posts)

17. We're probably related, too...

Last edited Thu Oct 25, 2012, 09:42 AM USA/ET - Edit history (2)

Since I'm related to Bush Ugh. (and politicos on the proper side of the aisle as well). Just for grins, maybe I'll find the exact relationship and update this later tonight.

ETA: 7th cousins, twice removed from George HW bush, 1 generation removed form GW Bush.

I'm also related to Henry Wasdworth Longfellow, Henry David Thoroeau, Orso Welles, Wild Bill Hickock, and FDR.

Ugh...guess that FDR connection probably connects me to Romney.

And that's only through my paternal grandmother -the only relatively complete genealogy I have.

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Wed Oct 24, 2012, 08:27 PM

Star Member markpkessinger (3,121 posts)

19. If you are the 6th cousin of GWB . . .

. . . you are the 5th cousin once removed of GHWB. Your parent (whichever one is related) would be GHWB's 5th cousin.

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Wed Oct 24, 2012, 08:41 PM

rbrnmw (2,012 posts)

20. I'm not sure but Samuel P. Bush

was my mother's great great Uncle making Prescott her 3rd cousin GHWB her 4th and W her 5th My mother's family were all republicans of the old order. My Grandfather would roll-over in his grave if he could see his party now. My Mother and Father were married in the mid sixties voted for Nixon then turned Democratic there after My Dad was always a Democrat he voted for JFK then LBJ then Nixon after Bobby Kennedy died he thought Hubert Humphrey would keep us in Vietnam. In 1972 they both voted for McGovern and every democratic anything ever since.

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Wed Oct 24, 2012, 08:46 PM

Star Member markpkessinger (3,121 posts)

21. That's not the way it works . . .

. . . 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, etc. cousins run in parallel generations. If either side is off by a generation or more, then it is xth cousin (# of generations off) removed.

If Prescott is her third cousin, then GHWB is her 3rd cousin once removed, and GWB her 3rd cousin twice removed. You would be GHWB's fourth cousin, and GWB's 4th cousin once removed.

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Wed Oct 24, 2012, 08:58 PM

rbrnmw (2,012 posts)

25. Oh ok thanks for explaining

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Wed Oct 24, 2012, 08:49 PM

Star Member A HERETIC I AM (10,259 posts)

22. I think we should just take you out back and beat the shit out of you.

hee hee.....



just kidding.


I'm related to Myles Standish, but then, so are thousands and thousands of other Americans.


Not meant to belittle you, please. I mean no harm.

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Thu Oct 25, 2012, 12:24 AM

rbrnmw (2,012 posts)

32. I wanted to do that to myself ala Liar Liar

no offense taken I know I'm in good company here

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Wed Oct 24, 2012, 08:52 PM

Star Member markpkessinger (3,121 posts)

23. To make it clearer . . .

Last edited Wed Oct 24, 2012, 08:55 PM USA/ET - Edit history (1)

Here's what I mean by parallel generations:

The offspring of two siblings are 1st cousins to each other
The offspring of two 1st cousins are 2nd cousins to each other
The offspring of two 2nd cousins are 3rd cousins to each other
The offspring of two 3rd cousins are 4th cousins to each other, etc.

The relationship description always goes through the last parallel cousin relationship. For example, your cousin's child is not your second cousin, but your 1st cousin once removed. Your child, however, would be a 2nd cousin to that same cousin's child.

Does that clarify it?

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Thu Oct 25, 2012, 12:17 AM

rbrnmw (2,012 posts)

31. Yes thanks now I'm going to go throw up

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Wed Oct 24, 2012, 08:53 PM

Star Member krawhitham (3,148 posts)

24. Sucks to be you

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Wed Oct 24, 2012, 09:03 PM

Star Member Drahthaardogs (1,260 posts)

26. Thank God my grandparents were from Milan on BOTH sides.

I don't have to worry about claiming Romney or W!

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Wed Oct 24, 2012, 09:25 PM

Star Member Lightbulb_on (315 posts)

27. I wouldn't worry about it.. Bush and Obama are related as well...

 

http://kristof.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/03/21/obama-and-bush-are-cousins/

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Thu Oct 25, 2012, 12:13 AM

rbrnmw (2,012 posts)

29. I wonder if I am related to Obama? Now that I would love!!!!!!!

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Thu Oct 25, 2012, 12:15 AM

rbrnmw (2,012 posts)

30. Poor President Obama is related to Darth Cheney too

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