Interesting if true...
7th-Grader: Obama, Most US Presidents Related
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'S')ALINAS, Calif. -- A seventh-grader and her 80-year-old grandfather are allegedly the first people to discover that President Barack Obama is related to all other U.S. presidents except one.
BridgeAnne d'Avignon, who attends Monte Vista Christian School in Watsonville, traced that Obama, and all other U.S. presidents except Martin Van Buren, are related to John "Lackland" Plantagenet, a king of England and signer of the Magna Carta.
The student and her grandfather, who is a genealogist, spent this past summer designing the first known family tree chart in history that shows the presidents' direct relationship. BridgeAnne's grandfather has researched president genealogy for 60 years.
"I'm very glad I got this done, and I think it will turn out to be a success," BridgeAnne said.
BridgeAnne has written to Obama, who she has concluded is her own 11th cousin, in hopes that she will get a chance to present the president with the chart.
BridgeAnne's U.S. Presidents Family Tree is set to be on display Oct. 28 at the Monte Vista Christian School.
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A big happy family
by eXpat » Fri 06 Aug 2010, 12:19:59
http://www.ksbw.com/news/21404492/detail.html
and
http://weareallrelated.com/page.php?6
"I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it."
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George Bernard Shaw
“You can ignore reality, but you can't ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.” Ayn Rand
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Re: A big happy family
by eXpat » Fri 06 Aug 2010, 13:08:26
Video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGrbJ4_jcc8&feature=player_embedded
And some of the more obvious relations:
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'G')eorge W. Bush (the 43rd president) is the son of George Bush (the 41st president).
John Quincy Adams (the 6th president) was the son of John Adams (the 2nd president).
Benjamin Harrison (the 23rd president) was the grandson of William Henry Harrison (the 9th president).
James Madison (the 4th president) and Zachary Taylor (the 12th president) were second cousins.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt (the 32nd president) was a fifth cousin of Theodore Roosevelt (the 26th president). Genealogists have determined that FDR was distantly related to a total of 11 U.S. presidents, 5 by blood and 6 by marriage: John Adams, John Quincy Adams, Ulysses Grant, William Henry Harrison, Benjamin Harrison, James Madison, Theodore Roosevelt, William Taft, Zachary Taylor, Martin Van Buren, and George Washington.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGrbJ4_jcc8&feature=player_embedded
And some of the more obvious relations:
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'G')eorge W. Bush (the 43rd president) is the son of George Bush (the 41st president).
John Quincy Adams (the 6th president) was the son of John Adams (the 2nd president).
Benjamin Harrison (the 23rd president) was the grandson of William Henry Harrison (the 9th president).
James Madison (the 4th president) and Zachary Taylor (the 12th president) were second cousins.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt (the 32nd president) was a fifth cousin of Theodore Roosevelt (the 26th president). Genealogists have determined that FDR was distantly related to a total of 11 U.S. presidents, 5 by blood and 6 by marriage: John Adams, John Quincy Adams, Ulysses Grant, William Henry Harrison, Benjamin Harrison, James Madison, Theodore Roosevelt, William Taft, Zachary Taylor, Martin Van Buren, and George Washington.
http://www.factmonster.com/ipka/A0878156.html
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George Bernard Shaw
“You can ignore reality, but you can't ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.” Ayn Rand
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Re: A big happy family
by Sixstrings » Fri 06 Aug 2010, 16:22:42
Interesting, but you know ultimately we're all a lot more closely related than we think. There've been DNA studies on this that prove we all came from the same population group in Africa.
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Re: A big happy family
by Pretorian » Fri 06 Aug 2010, 18:46:11
Pretty much any plant out there in your yard have about 50% of your DNA.
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Re: A big happy family
by IslandCrow » Sat 07 Aug 2010, 05:13:56
And I thought we were all children of Adam and Eve.
We should teach our children the 4-Rs: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle and Rejoice.
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Re: A big happy family
by Sixstrings » Sat 07 Aug 2010, 14:54:38
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('IslandCrow', 'A')nd I thought we were all children of Adam and Eve.
Not quite, but close. We're all descended from a very small population in Africa, around 2,000 individuals. And this wasn't one big group living together, they were spread out -- homo sapiens came very close to extinction.
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'W')ASHINGTON — Human beings may have had a brush with extinction about 70,000 years ago, an extensive genetic study suggests.
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The report notes that a separate study by researchers at Stanford University estimated the number of early humans may have shrunk as low as 2,000 before numbers began to rapidly expand again in the period known as the Late Stone Age.
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'h')ttp://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,352461,00.html
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