For Hillary Clinton, Surprising Celebrity Ties

[CatWoman]

Startling new information suggests a secret connection between Hillary Rodham Clinton and our era's most controversial, charismatic and polarizing women:

Madonna, Angelina Jolie and Camilla Parker-Bowles -- they're all her cousins.

Not that they've hung out at many reunions together. HRC and Madge are 10th cousins, who share the same great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandparents, according to research by Washington genealogist William Addams Reitwiesner. The Democratic front-runner is ninth cousin once removed to Prince Charles's wife, while Jolie is her ninth cousin twice removed.

Reitwiesner is the Library of Congress employee whose research formed the basis for our blockbuster story on how Fred Thompson and Elvis Presley are eighth cousins once removed (explains a lot) and made headlines with the discovery that Barack Obama is descended from slave owners. He declined to comment about the Hillary kin, but made his work available on his Web site ( http://www.wargs.com).

Clinton's connection to all three women comes via 17th century French ancestors who made their way to Quebec before drifting south. Speaking of Canadians: Celine Dion and Alanis Morissette -- Clinton's tenth cousins once removed. Though when you go back that far, we probably all are.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/01/AR2007110102801.html

[aquart]

1. Her family has been here since the 1600s?

Deep roots in our candidates.

[Rock_Garden]

2. If he'd included Cher, it would be a triple crown....

of famous women known by their first names. Since Cher has French ancestry, it's possible. Thanks for this one!

:hi:

[emilyg]

3. Much better than a Cheney connection.

[Critters2]

4. I've been toiling away at my genealogy for months.

I should declare my candidacy, so the media will do it for me.

[Bitwit1234]

5. I don't know the name of his ancestors from Europe or England

he was an orphan....but if you have the same surname of this person you have to be related by blood or marriage...why...because he was the only person in the whole wide small world in 1737 with that surname.