[quote]NEW YORK – President Barack Obama has family ties to none other than Sarah Palin, according to the genealogists at Ancestry.com, a discovery the family history site made when looking for connections between political foes.
And that's not all — Obama also is apparently related to conservative radio host and relentless critic Rush Limbaugh.
A genealogist at the Utah-based Ancestry.com, Anastasia Tyler, said Obama and Palin are 10th cousins through a common ancestor named John Smith, a pastor and early settler in 17th-century Massachusetts. Obama is related to Smith through his mother, as is Palin, Tyler said.
"Smith was against the persecution of the Quakers," Tyler said in an interview. "He was a very socially conscious man."
As for Limbaugh, he's also a 10th cousin of the president — one time removed — through a common ancestor named Richmond Terrell, who Tyler said was a large landowner in Virginia, also in the 17th century. "His history is a little more nebulous," Tyler said.
How do the genealogists come up with this stuff? Tyler said they start by picking the people they're interested in, then examine their family trees, going back further and further into history, looking for common surnames and locations.
In the recent project, genealogists looked at the trees of Obama, Palin, and Limbaugh but also a few others, including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, and Fox News pundits Glenn Beck and Sean Hannity. They didn't find anything much with the latter three.
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This reminds me of those stories about one child being dumb and cool or some shit whilst the other is smart and not-as-cool
In this case, it's Smart & Awesome vs Dumb & Dumb
I'm calling bullshit.
I think I'm their 15th cousin or something.
We're all related to africans.
Problem, racism? :smug:
That's fucking retarded. TENTH cousins? Come on.
Hmm... Do I care?
Was really hoping it'd be something closer than "10th cousins". Like maybe, "8th cousins on the mother's side's brother's" or something. :v:
Reminds me of that thread about the jewish neo-nazi's.
The same John Smith from Pocahontas?
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