Obama Related to Bush AND Cheney

[babylonsister]

http://www.suntimes.com/news/politics/obama/familytree/545460,BSX-News-wotreea09.article#

SAMUEL HINCKLEY AND SARAH SOOLE
So far, no sign he's related to Hillary

September 9, 2007
BY SCOTT FORNEK Political Editor
BY SCOTT FORNEK, Sun Times

It sure would be an awkward family reunion. But, believe it or not, Barack Obama is related to both President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney.

OK, distantly related: Obama and Bush are 11th cousins.

That's because they share the same great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great grandparents -- Samuel Hinckley and Sarah Soole Hinckley of 17th century Massachusetts.

That means Obama and former President George Herbert Walker Bush are 10th cousins once removed.

Obama is related to Cheney through Mareen Duvall, a 17th century immigrant from France.

Mareen and Susannah Duvall were Obama's great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great grandparents and Cheney's great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great grandparents.

That makes Obama and Cheney ninth cousins once removed.

Cheney and Bush are related to one another by a completely different common ancestor.

We leave it to you to figure out their relationship.

[zulchzulu]

1. Old news...but what exactly is an 11th cousin anyway?

Last I checked, it means it's 11 generations of grandmothers down the line.

I'm probably related to Bush as a 13th cousin.

As for the Cheney being ninth cousins, um...

[Ian David]

3. Someone too distantly related to marry Rudy Ghouliani. n/t

[Ian David]

2. Why are they so desperately trying to smear Obama this way? n/t

[lurky]

4. 2^11 = 2048

2 parents, 4 grandparents, 8 great-grandparents ... 2048 11th-generation-ancestors. There weren't that many people in America at that time, so odds are pretty good that if your family has been here since colonial times, you have some kind of relation with someone else whose family has been here that long.

[JerseygirlCT]

5. Sure lets me off the hook! nt

[lurky]

7. Seriously,

I mean, what if there is a Bush gene?

[JerseygirlCT]

8. {{{{{shudder}}}}}} nt

[doc03]

9. Go 20 generations back we have over 2,000,000

Grandparents, count all the siblings and we are probably all related to Bush and Cheney, scary thought.

[illinoisprogressive]

6. I'd love to see that family reunion

[Semper_FiFi]

10. I'm not really surprised...

I knew there was something about him I didn't like. Now I know why.