Girl discovers all US Presidents except one are related to a former king.

Nice work kid.

http://www.ksbw.com/r/21404492/detail.html

Funky.

I don't have a connection to that king that I know of myself but so far I have that I am related to Ulysses Grant, William Howard Taft, FDR, Gerald Ford, Rutherford B. Hayes, Grover Cleveland, Millard Fillmore, George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush, Charles Gates Dawes (Veep under Coolidge), Sarah Palin, Adlai Stevenson (by marriage), Tomas Masaryk (President of Czechoslovakia, related by marriage), Oliver Ellsworth (Supreme Court Chief Justice), Melville Weston Fuller (Supereme Court Chief Justice), Stephen Douglas, William Williams (signer of the Declaration of Independence), Mike Huckabee, Mamie Eisenhower, Sarah Jane Mayfield (Ronald Reagan's first wife) and David J. Brewer (Supreme Court Justice)

and there are doubtless hundreds of millions of Americans who can say the same thing. Remember all the Spencer descendants in America who were related to Princess Diana? That same king likely has 200 million descendants in the US making the odds very good that a President would be related to him.

royalty, it is more that they don't know that connection.

Having worked on my family's genealogy for years, I keep finding new and surprising branches. Recently someone was very impressed when I mentioned a connection to the Mayflower, but I just laughed and explained that it was hardly a great accomplishment. Hundreds of thousands of people in the U.S. have a branch somewhere that will take them back to the Mayflower - probably more like millions. People really had large families back then!

If someone becomes President of the United States, genealogists from all over will be more inclined to research their ancestral roots, whereas most people barely know a few generations of their families.

(Yes, I know. Just being:silly:)

Dutch.

If all of the Presidents but one are, and John "Lackland" lived so long ago, then he's going to have many descendants.

We're all probably related to any given peasant in Europe of that time, too.

Very strange way to spend time.

Prince John: Poor John. Who says poor John? Don't everybody sob at once! My God, if I went up in flames there's not a living soul who'd pee on me to put the fire out!

Prince Richard: Let's strike a flint and see.

(from "The Lion in Winter")

And to me.

:sarcasm:

Discovering all US Presidents except one are no more than 6 degrees separated from Kevin Bacon.

is descended from Charlemagne, King John, and many others.

http://blog.eogn.com/eastmans_online_genealogy/2010/03/you-are-probably-descended-from-charlemagne-and-other-royalty.html

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to Charlamange. Western Europe? Could be.

I kinda doubt that I'm related to most of the presidents & kings
although I believe the Roosevelts had some Estonians in their ancestry.

a 7th cousin to President Obama.

Heck, I'm probably YOUR 7th cousin, too.

Now I eat humble pie.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtPkDhM1Brs&feature=related

probably also related to this king. It's a small island, relatively speaking.

I think our tree has two branches that go back to "Lackland". He has many descendants in the United States.

with 56 million inhabitants.

that article hardly in depth or comprehensive, to say the least.................

a much more interesting person than her son, John.

dg

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But, I never knew why. I agree. Nice work Kid !

odds that a man alive today is a direct descendant of Ghengis Khan is 1 in 200. (Of course, the odds are even better in certain parts of the world.)

Ghengis Khan had hundreds of concubines, so he cast his seed widely indeed.