Written by
Yoon on Tuesday, March 25th 2008 under
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Hi Peeps,
WOW. So Brad Pitt and Barak Obama(not Osama) are distant cousins… from a connection WAY back to an Edwin Hickman, who died in Virginia in 1769… they are ninth cousins… excuse me but WHAT the HECK is a NINTH Cousin…?!?!?!
But what even funnier than that is how Obama AND George W. Bush ARE related!!! HAHAHAHA! I wonder what the Racist Pastor(you know, Obama’s spiritual dad) thinks now!!! So how is the current President of the United States of America and Wannabe Prez Barak Obama related? Why they’re 10th cousins of course, once removed, and linked by a Samuel Hinkley of Cape Cod, who died in 1662.
It’s like what Genealogist Christopher Child says “It shows that lots of different people can be related, people you wouldn’t necessarily expect.”
Okay now on to our fave Presidential Contestant(not mine, I’m speaking in general terms here peeps)…
She is related to Angelina Jolie by way of a Jean Cusson who died in St. Sulpice, Quebec, in 1718. These gals are ninth cousins, twice temoved… anyone care to explain this one…? ; P
Christopher Child spent the last three years tracing the candidates’ genealogy, along with senior research scholar Gary Boyd Roberts who authored the 1989 book, “Ancestors of American Presidents.” They belong to The New England Historic Genealogical Society, founded in 1845, which is the oldest and largest nonprofit genealogical organization in the country.
So how about them apples, eh? Obama has a strong lineage of Republican upbringing(I’m just saying, don’t know for sure)… Who knew?! ; P
God Bless,
Yoon