Yikes!!! Obama and Scott Brown related

[CatWoman]

BOSTON — It was bad enough that President Barack Obama lost his filibuster-proof margin in the U.S. Senate to a Republican. Now it turns out he also lost it to a relative.

Genealogists said Friday that the Democratic president and the newly elected senator from Massachusetts, Scott Brown, are 10th cousins.

The New England Historic Genealogical Society said Obama's mother, Stanley Ann Dunham, and Brown's mother, Judith Ann Rugg, both descend from Richard Singletary of Haverhill, Mass.

He died in 1687 at the unheard-of, for the time, age of 102.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/01/29/president-obama-scott-bro_n_441754.html

[joeybee12]

1. So, is anyone NOT related to Obama?

Seriously, the British royal family, Dick Cheney...his ancestors really got around! :P

[tblue]

4. It would probably take less time to list the people NOT related to Obama.

Lol!

[monmouth]

2. Obviously the basketball skill gene kicked in....n/t

[eleny]

3. I love the timing of this

Some keep trying to carve him out as "the other". It's nice to see that silliness dashed by facts. He's as American as the apple pie he likes so much.

K&R

[crazylikafox]

5. He's related to Cheney too.

pretty funny

[ddeclue]

6. TENTH Cousins?? If you're going back THAT far.. Obama and Kevin Bacon are related too!

:rofl:

[rcrush]

7. Most of the US presidents and other high ranking people in US history were related

Everyone had some kind of link in their family to each other. Like some kind of far reaching royal bloodline or something.

[TheWraith]

14. You could extend that to a vast amount of the US population.

All living humans are something like 50th cousins, and when you talk about a specific population like the US it gets a lot closer. Particularly for the white population of the US, most of which has roots in New England, and which extends to their descendants like Obama.

[earth mom]

23. I find it odd....

:tinfoilhat:

[Peacetrain]

8. Well 10th cousins.. I am probably a 10th cousin to 95% of the people in DU..

[Harry Monroe]

12. Hello cousin!!

I have a brother-in-law who is my 9th cousin (and therefore a 9th cousin to his wife, my sister!). We have a common ancestor on my mother's and his mother's side from the 1600's. My sister, though she should know better, still cringes every time I say something about her marrying our cousin!!

[Peacetrain]

15. Hey Cuz!

Deep down, we are all inbred cousins of a sort. You get back to those 9th and 10th generations.. how many great great grandparents is that...over a thousand.. and then start spreading it to the cousins.. you must be talking millions pretty easily.

Since we are all basically blood..you would think we would get along better :)

[CatWoman]

17. "kissing" cousins, no doubt

:)

[Peacetrain]

18. Yep that too..

;)

[Zomby Woof]

9. I am Hillary's 11th cousin, once removed

Although when you add up how many great-grandparents a person has with each preceding generation, that isn't as cool as it sounds (but I like to play it up, lol).

[Sancho]

10. We all came from Africa 70,000 years ago...

Did the Tea Party demand to see the birth certificates!

[wtmusic]

11. I'd like to see Scott Brown's birth certificate, please. nt

[SpiralHawk]

13. Do we have a birth certificate for Richard Singletary?

If so, it damn well better be the long form.

Hey, and what about Scott Brown? "Brown" is a very unAmerican sounding name. Where are his papers?

:tinfoilhat: :tinfoilhat:

[WolverineDG]

16. if you can afford it

join ancestry (dot) com. they have a "find famous relatives" options. it's pretty interesting--I'm related to the Queen of England, Mark Twain, several US presidents & their First Ladies (including the Bushes :puke: ), Booker T Washington (that one is a :wtf: because all my ancestors lived in the North),Governor Winthrop, St. Thomas More.....all except Thomas More (direct ancestor) are very distant cousins & the connections come from a few families who lived in England in the 1600s.

If your ancestors arrived in colonial to Revolutionary times, you are probably related to just about anyone else in the US whose ancestors arrived around the same time.

dg

[CatWoman]

19. *curtsies*

Your Majesty :)

[WolverineDG]

22. lol

:)

dg

[Enrique]

20. funny, Brown doesn't look Muslin

:shrug:

[CatWoman]

21. he doesn't look Kenyan, either

:P