Cousins of the presidents

Monday 29 March 2004

The Genealogy of the Presidents of the USA has some pretty impressive information about the ancestors of the presidents. One of the ways they've sliced and diced it is to figure out which presidents are related to each other (beyond the Bushes, Adamses, and Roosevelts). For example, George Washington (#1) and George W. Bush (#43) are 10th cousins 8 times removed.

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Person 7:49 AM on 31 Mar 2004

The important thing to learn from sites like this is not "Wow, our presidents sure are descended from some pretty elite people". Rather, it is "Everybody is descended from everyone."

Go back to the time of William the Conqueror or so, and everyone who was alive at the time who has any descendants today, everyone alive today who is of relatively recent European descent is his or her descendant.

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