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Extract from above reference Obama doesn't have high profile genealogical connections to Canada, but is distant cousins with at least six other former U.S. presidents, including President George W. Bush and his father, Gerald Ford, Lyndon Johnson, Harry Truman and James Madison. Obama, who has a white mother from Kansas and a black father from Kenya, is also related to Robert E. Lee, who was a general during the Civil War. His lineage also stretches across the Atlantic, where he can count former Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill as a cousin, though most of the ancestry from Obama's mother's side is from the southern and mid-Atlantic states, Child said. It also has Obama related to some-one called Mr. Pitt (Brad not the PM) -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of jimlancaster Sent: Sunday, January 25, 2009 11:43 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [ChurchillChat] Re: Churchill and the White House I followed RML's link to an item about the Churchill bust in the Oval Office, and was amused to read that "Last year, the New England Historic Genealogical Society discovered that Obama is in fact related to Churchill." Jim Lancaster --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ChurchillChat" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/ChurchillChat?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
