Obama and Scott Brown are distant cousins.

lildreamer316

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Tue Feb-02-10 06:24 AM
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Obama and Scott Brown are distant cousins.

This news is over 12 hours old; hence the post here instead of LBN.

"Family link is found between Obama and Scott Brown

The president and the Massachusetts Republican senator-elect are 10th cousins, according to genealogy experts.

By Mark Silva
January 31, 2010

Reporting from Washington - President Obama has found another long-lost cousin: Scott Brown, the Republican state senator from Massachusetts who won the Senate seat long held by the late Sen. Edward M. Kennedy.

The president and the senator-elect are 10th cousins, according to the New England Historic Genealogical Society."

..more at link.

http://www.latimes.com/news/nation-and-world/la-na-obama-scott31-2010jan31,0,3934556.story?track=rss

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FBaggins

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Tue Feb-02-10 07:11 AM
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1. Hardly a surprise.

When you get to 10th cousin, you're talking about a significant percentage of the nation.

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