Wow. There's a name.
One of my uncles was saying he "found out" that we are decedents of Charlemagne and I was like........yeah we ain't special in that regard. And my mom said that well it's better than not being descended from Charlemagne.
Do you recall the story of the girl who did the school project that figured out every President other than Van Buren (and including Obama on his mom's side) was descended from King John of England (as I'm sure are millions of people), the bad guy from "Robin Hood" from whom some many of them have inherited tax happy disease?
I was trying to figure if any of last year's candidates maybe weren't. Trump I would assume is probably is on his mother's (though she was from an Island and was raised speaking Scottish Gaelic) but probably not his father's side (his paternal grandma was surnamed "Christ" btw). Shillery, probably is. Cruz, probably on his mom's side. Rubio, quite possibly not. Sanders, I'm guessing not.
I know nothing about the remote ancestry of last year’s presidential candidates, but given that I’m the 23-great-grandson of King John of England (nemesis of Robin Hood in legend, and real-life issuer of Magna Carta in 1215) through my great-great-great-grandfather who immigrated from the Spanish Canary Islands (but whose father was from Dublin), I would not discount the possibility that all of them descended from King John.
So I guess that, through King John, I’m related to all presidents save for the all-Dutch Van Buren. But I’m more closely related to George Washington through his 11-great-grandfather (and my 21-great-grandfather), Robert de Washington (1296-1347); we’re 12th cousins, 10 times removed.
Did I mention already that genealogy is a fun hobby? : )