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December 21, 2011, Wednesday
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US Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney is distantly related to six past presidents, including George Bush, George HW Bush and Franklin D Roosevelt, genealogists said yesterday.
Online database Ancestry.com released a report showing the former Massachusetts governor also has ties to Calvin Coolidge, Franklin Pierce and Herbert Hoover through an English landowner who lived in the 1500s.
Odd political lineage is not new. The website has found faraway family connections linking United States President Barack Obama to conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh, 2008 vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin and George W Bush, his 11th cousin. "It's not exceptional to be related to a president, not at all," said Gary Boyd Roberts, a researcher at the New England Historic Genealogical Society. "Most of us are related to a dozen, half dozen presidents."
Because of the long history of intermarriage among immigrants, Americans with colonial links in their family history could on average be related to six or seven former presidents, he said.
Romney is well connected because of the number of presidents who have come from New England where his earliest US ancestors migrated to in the 1600s.
"His family has very deep American roots," said Anastasia Harman, lead family historian for Ancestry.com.
Roberts said Romney could actually be related to up to 15 presidents, including Richard Nixon and Jimmy Carter.
Online database Ancestry.com released a report showing the former Massachusetts governor also has ties to Calvin Coolidge, Franklin Pierce and Herbert Hoover through an English landowner who lived in the 1500s.
Odd political lineage is not new. The website has found faraway family connections linking United States President Barack Obama to conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh, 2008 vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin and George W Bush, his 11th cousin. "It's not exceptional to be related to a president, not at all," said Gary Boyd Roberts, a researcher at the New England Historic Genealogical Society. "Most of us are related to a dozen, half dozen presidents."
Because of the long history of intermarriage among immigrants, Americans with colonial links in their family history could on average be related to six or seven former presidents, he said.
Romney is well connected because of the number of presidents who have come from New England where his earliest US ancestors migrated to in the 1600s.
"His family has very deep American roots," said Anastasia Harman, lead family historian for Ancestry.com.
Roberts said Romney could actually be related to up to 15 presidents, including Richard Nixon and Jimmy Carter.
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