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| Palin may be related to Princess Diana, Roosevelt |
| 2008-10-08 |
| Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin is distantly related to the late Princess Diana and late U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt, genealogy experts said on Wednesday. The governor of Alaska and the princess are tenth cousins, while Palin and Roosevelt are ninth cousins once removed, said Ancestry.com, online genealogists based in Provo, Utah. The genealogical connections are not the first to gain attention in the U.S. presidential campaign. Last year, Lynne Cheney said she found while tracing her family roots that her husband Vice President Dick Cheney was a distant cousin of Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama. Other researchers discovered Obama is distant cousins with actor Brad Pitt. "When you've got candidates who have deep roots in America, there's a good chance that they're going to have some famous cousins," said Ancestry.com's chief family historian Megan Smolenyak. "We've all got literally millions of cousins. The trick is finding that one little connection that results in something like Sarah Palin being related to FDR or Diana," she said. Palin and the late princess descended from John Strong and his wife Abigail Ford, Ancestry.com said. Strong was born around 1605 in England and emigrated to the United States, where he died in Massachusetts in 1699, Ancestry.com said. Palin and Roosevelt share ancestor John Lothrop, who was born in England in 1584 and also emigrated to America, where he died in Massachusetts in 1653, Ancestry.com said. According to family and local histories, Lothrop was a Puritan Presbyterian minister who arrived in the Massachusetts colony in 1634, said Ancestry.com, which says it has access to 7 billion records online. |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #13 Lest we fergit, D *** NG IT, MORIARITY, THE ONLY REAL NON-BOTTLE ARYAN BLONDE AROUND HERE IS THE SEXY SLINKY BLACK CHICK! |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2008-10-08 19:50 |
| #12 "TOP GUN" > TOM CRUISE/MAVERICK to KELLY MCGILLIS > "I could tell ya, but then I'll have to kill you". |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2008-10-08 19:48 |
| #11 I wonder how many hits Rantburg got from folks looking for Uncle Harold. |
| Posted by: .5MT 2008-10-08 14:04 |
| #10 #7 McCain ought to point out the smear Biden voiced on Obama's cousin, Cheney , in the VP debate. Wouldn't that make it a racist attack on the cousin of the one instead of a smear? |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2008-10-08 13:43 |
| #9 Our deepest sympathies, Anguper. |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2008-10-08 13:34 |
| #8 Madonna is my 6th cousin and Celine Dion my 8th cousin once removed. That's why I post anonymously. |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2008-10-08 12:59 |
| #7 McCain ought to point out the smear Biden voiced on Obama's cousin, Cheney , in the VP debate. |
| Posted by: Jack is Back! 2008-10-08 12:44 |
| #6 How come nobody's ever related to Joe Schmoe? |
| Posted by: Crash Davis 2008-10-08 10:39 |
| #5 "Palin and Roosevelt are ninth cousins once removed." When was she removed? Why was she removed? When did McCain know she was removed? How does this prove she's a racist? |
| Posted by: Carbon Monoxide 2008-10-08 10:07 |
| #4 Besoeker related to die Obamessiah? Not likely. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2008-10-08 09:43 |
| #3 We each have 2 parents, 4 grandparents, 8 great grandparents, 16 great great grandparents... Even at 16, 15 of them had different last names. By the time you take this back to the 1600's, you're pretty well related to everybody. |
| Posted by: Darrell 2008-10-08 09:39 |
| #2 More importantly, what's her relation to Michael Palin? Or John Cleese? |
| Posted by: ed 2008-10-08 08:15 |
| #1 Look, if you have a Northern European ancestor in North America going back to the 1630s, you're probably related to me and *everyone else* with that ancestry. They have online you're-cousins-eleven-times-removed-with-Winston-Churchill applications which have *automated* this little parlor trick. This is how they discovered that Obama and Cheney are 'cousins'. |
| Posted by: Mitch H. 2008-10-08 07:11 |