HA! Thats great, I bet that girl and her grandfather probably wont be hearing from Obama on this one. It makes me wonder if maybe we aren't all related to a King of England? A Powerful blood line indeed...

extremely interesting.. makes you think there is something else going on here like eugenics or of that sort.

"traced that Obama, and all other U.S. presidents except Martin Van Buren, are related to John "Lackland" Plantagenet, a king of England and signer of the Magna Carta. "

I'm wondering that if all our presidents are of england royal descent every election is some what of a fluke.

Originally posted by washingtonsghost
It makes me wonder if maybe we aren't all related to a King of England?

It's actually very common, if people to search back far enough and if their families came over from Europe, to find relations. So, a LOT more of us are related than we think.

if i remember correctly some statistic once said that everyone is at least 50th cousins with eachother

Originally posted by conspiracyrus
if i remember correctly some statistic once said that everyone is at least 50th cousins with eachother

I remember once hearing that you can pick anyone on the planet right now and through seven people you know them.

I know that's a lot different than related but it reminded of the of that, I would believe that we could be less than 50th cousins with most people.

I mean, Biblically speaking, we all came from the same two people.
Scientifically, we all probably came from the first two...whatever...to evolve.

I'm just curious to know if anybody double checked the accuracy of their work.

Might be embarrassing to find out mistakes were made.

Originally posted by Aberinkula
I mean, Biblically speaking, we all came from the same two people.
Scientifically, we all probably came from the first two...whatever...to evolve.

So, to use your logic, we are all the product of incest. Adam had to father children from his daughters or Eve had to have children fathered by a son or their children had to produce offspring with each other.

Originally posted by jam321
I'm just curious to know if anybody double checked the accuracy of their work.

Might be embarrassing to find out mistakes were made.

The article says

The student and her grandfather, who is a genealogist, spent this past summer designing the first known family tree chart in history that shows the presidents' direct relationship. BridgeAnne's grandfather has researched president genealogy for 60 years.

Sounds like he's the guy they would turn to for double checking.

Considering this line in the article I think its not too uncommon.

BridgeAnne has written to Obama, who she has concluded is her own 11th cousin, in hopes that she will get a chance to present the president with the chart.

I mean you could say your related to lots of people if your going by 11th cousin, where does it stop? 100th cousin?

Originally posted by Benevolent Heretic

Originally posted by washingtonsghost
It makes me wonder if maybe we aren't all related to a King of England?

It's actually very common, if people to search back far enough and if their families came over from Europe, to find relations. So, a LOT more of us are related than we think.

This is always said at least once in a thread like this and very typical that it is you who says it this time.

What you are saying is complete BS i have a family member that was in a Family tree club and they went back hundreds of years or as far as records would take them to determine who each of them were related to. There were about 20 people in the club and only 2 of them traced lineage back to anyone of notoriety.

It is not normal to be related to EVERY president except one and then to ironically become president yourself and it is absolutely absurd to say it is common.

Maybe you were mistaken you must have read the thread as six degrees of separation from every president except one.

This is blood relations just so you know and you can correct your post that says this is common.

The first time I heard about this was on CNN. I was suprised lol, and thought directly to the reptilian bloodline.