sounds like a second cousin, once removed.
So, if my grandmother's cousin marries someone
I am related to them too?
I did see where he was actually suppose
to be decended from one person though.
This seems to be like Hillary
She would be part Packachu if it would
help her get elected!
> blue honey wrote:
>
> By Suzi Parker
> March 31, 2000
>
> It's hardly a secret that George W. Bush has an impressive
> family tree. His father was president; his grandfather, Prescott Bush,
> was a
> U.S. senator from Connecticut; and his brother Jeb is governor of
> Florida.
>
> But the Republican candidate for president has a richer political
> pedigree
> than the immediate family that gathers for Christmas dinners and
> birthday
> celebrations. They are, in fact, related to 16 U.S. presidents, a slew
> of
> British monarchs and even the American Indian princess Pocahontas.
>
> Gary Boyd Roberts, a prominent genealogist at the New England Historic
>
> Genealogical Society, documented the remarkable Bush lineage in his
> little-noticed book "Ancestors of American Presidents," published in
> 1995.
> According to Roberts, the list consists of George Washington, Millard
> Fillmore, Franklin Pierce, Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses Grant, Rutherford
> B.
> Hayes, James Garfield, Grover Cleveland, Teddy Roosevelt, William
> Howard
> Taft, Calvin Coolidge, Herbert Hoover, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Richard
> Nixon,
> Gerald Ford and George H. W. Bush.
>
> Asked to comment on his remarkable family heritage, Bush issued a
> statement
> to Salon through his campaign on Thursday: "As Lincoln reminded the
> American
> people, even though he did not know much about who his grandfather
> was, he
> was much more concerned with who his grandson would become. While the
> past is
> important, we must always look to the future. In particular, I am
> proud of my
> father's service to the country. He has set a great example of serving
> with
> honor. I hope to build on his legacy and the legacy of other
> presidents by
> providing America with a new style of leadership and a fresh start for
>
> America in the 21st century."
>
> Bush's extensive lineage dates back to ancestors who arrived here on
> the
> Mayflower in 1620, Roberts found. His connection to Pocahontas, the
> Indian
> princess who married John Rolfe (the first colonist to grow tobacco as
> a
> crop) is through a Bush ancestor who married the couple's only
> American
> great-grandchild.
>
> Bush is also a descendant of Dr. Samuel Prescott, who completed Paul
> Revere's
> Midnight Ride in 1775. And through Rev. John Lathrop, a non-conformist
> and
> founder of Barnstable, Mass., the Bushes are related to Grant and FDR.
>
> Howard Howland, a Mayflower passenger who died in 1673, had two
> children, and
> the direct lines from them through the years lead to four presidents
> -- FDR,
> Nixon, Ford and Bush.
>
> Another Mayflower passenger, Thomas Mitchell of Holland, also had two
> children. Through them, George W. can trace his roots to the late
> Princess
> Diana and her two children Princes William and Harry. Taft, the 27th
> president, also comes from this lineage.
>
> Many assume George W. Bush is also related to Franklin Pierce, the
> 14th
> president, through Barbara Bush, whose maiden name was Pierce. But the
> Bushes
> are related to Pierce though Daniel Brewer, who died in 1646, yielding
> a
> lineage that leads to both Pierce and Hayes.
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