Researchers at the New England Historic Genealogical Society found some remarkable family connections for the three presidential candidates - Democratic rivals Obama and Clinton, and Republican John McCain.
Clinton, who is of French-Canadian descent on her mother's side, is also a distant cousin of singers Madonna, Celine Dion and Alanis Morissette. Obama, the son of a white woman from Kansas and a black man from Kenya, can call six U.S. presidents, including George W. Bush, his cousins. McCain is a sixth cousin of first lady Laura Bush.
Genealogist Christopher Child said that while the candidates often focus on pointing out differences between them, their ancestry shows they are more alike than they think.
"It shows that lots of different people can be related, people you wouldn't necessarily expect," Child said.
Obama has a prolific presidential lineage that features Democrats and Republicans. His distant cousins include President George W. Bush and his father, George H.W. Bush, Gerald Ford, Lyndon Johnson, Harry S. Truman and James Madison. Other Obama cousins include Vice President Dick Cheney, British Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill and Civil War General Robert E. Lee.
"His kinships are across the political spectrum," Child said.
Nekem egy negyedfokú kuzinom van az MSZP-nél nem is kis rangban, de a Jobbik elnöke is távoli rokonom, egyvilághírű zeneszerző nagyapám negyedfokú unokatestvére, és van egy neves operaénekesnő is a családban. De a gyökér nem én vagyok:)))
van az a hatos szabaly, hogy barkinek a hatodik ismerose egyben a te ismerosod is szerte a vilagban, de nem volt meg ilyen rokonsagi viszony feltaro statisztika. Az azonban teny, hogy a kekszemuek verrokonai egymasnak. Tehat Claudia Schiffer verrokona Slezakneninek a hatodikrol.
"McCain is a sixth cousin of first lady Laura Bush."
No, ez szerintem már elég komolytalan. Bush nem más, mint McCain 6. unokatesójának a férje. Brutális, ebből hatalmas összeesküvéselméleteket lehet gyártani, ilyen egy klán uralja a világot és hasonlók. :))))
Egy AOL cikk "Researchers at the New England Historic Genealogical Society found some remarkable family connections for the three presidential candidates - Democratic rivals Obama and Clinton, and Republican John McCain.
Clinton, who is of French-Canadian descent on her mother's side, is also a distant cousin of singers Madonna, Celine Dion and Alanis Morissette. Obama, the son of a white woman from Kansas and a black man from Kenya, can call six U.S. presidents, including George W. Bush, his cousins. McCain is a sixth cousin of first lady Laura Bush.
Genealogist Christopher Child said that while the candidates often focus on pointing out differences between them, their ancestry shows they are more alike than they think.
"It shows that lots of different people can be related, people you wouldn't necessarily expect," Child said.
Obama has a prolific presidential lineage that features Democrats and Republicans. His distant cousins include President George W. Bush and his father, George H.W. Bush, Gerald Ford, Lyndon Johnson, Harry S. Truman and James Madison. Other Obama cousins include Vice President Dick Cheney, British Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill and Civil War General Robert E. Lee.
"His kinships are across the political spectrum," Child said."
nyomán jutott az eszembe, hogy érdekes lenne erröl beszélni.
