Posted on 08/20/2026 5:50:53 AM PDT by Red Badger
What if I were to tell you that every single United States President, except one, are all related to each other?
This is what was revealed on a Special Episode of Secret America, called “It’s All Connected”.
Forget Republican versus Democrat. Forget conservative versus liberal. Follow the bloodline and you’ll find that nearly every American president ends up connected to the same ancestor:
King John “Lackland” of England.
From George Washington to Abraham Lincoln, Barack Obama to Donald Trump. All have the same blood running through their veins.
The one famous exception?
Martin Van Buren.
The connection was uncovered in a genealogy project by BridgeAnne d’Avignon, who traced presidential ancestry through both paternal and maternal family lines. Her research concluded that 42 of the 43 presidents she examined could be traced back to King John, who ruled England more than 800 years ago.
Even presidents portrayed as political opposites turn out to be distant relatives. Donald Trump and Barack Obama, for example, have been identified in genealogical research as distant cousins through shared ancestry.
And they’re far from the only ones.
The deeper you travel into presidential genealogy, the more connections appear.
Think about what we’re supposed to believe.
America was founded by overthrowing a monarchy. We rejected kings, royal families and inherited rule. Americans would choose their leaders.
Yet generation after generation, the people reaching America’s highest office keep appearing somewhere inside the same ancestral network, with the genealogy leading back to an actual King of England.
We’re supposed to believe that’s just coincidence?
ONE CHANCE IN 96 QUINTILLION?
The calculation that Secret America showed live on their show, about this presidential bloodline, puts the odds of virtually every president sharing this ancestry and reaching the presidency purely by chance at:
1 in 96,000,000,000,000,000,000.
That’s one chance in 96 quintillion.
It’s an eye-popping number. For comparison, there are 100 billion stars in our Milky Way Galaxy. That means the odds that were calculated in relation to the Presidents’ are about 960 MILLION times the number of stars.
And maybe that’s exactly why the genealogy itself deserves attention.
We’re repeatedly told not to look too closely at connections involving powerful people.
It’s coincidence.
It’s meaningless.
Everyone is probably related if you go back far enough.
Move along.
But when nearly every person to occupy the most powerful office on Earth can be traced into the same family tree, perhaps “coincidence” isn’t the end of the conversation.
Perhaps it’s the beginning.
WHY MARTIN VAN BUREN?
Then there’s Martin Van Buren.
If everyone were connected, skeptics could simply dismiss the entire thing by saying everyone eventually shares ancestors.
But according to the famous presidential genealogy, one president didn’t.
Van Buren.
Why? How did he become President if no one else outside the bloodline could?
In 1837, Martin Van Buren ran as the Democratic candidate for President. The newly formed Whig party (Republican party did not exist yet), ran 6 regional candidates rather than a national one.
That is why he won. However, the bloodline would never allow it again. He was ousted after his first term, and it’s been the same bloodline since him as it was before him.
So out of this remarkable pattern spanning more than two centuries, one man stands outside it.
Everyone else examined?
Connected.
BLOODLINES DON’T CARE ABOUT POLITICAL PARTIES
Maybe that’s the biggest lesson.
Americans spend enormous amounts of energy fighting over Republican versus Democrat.
But blood doesn’t have a political party.
Obama and Trump can be political opposites and still be distant relatives.
Presidents separated by centuries can still share ancestors.
Families that appear unrelated today can converge when their histories are traced backward.
The faces change.
The parties change.
The campaign slogans change.
But the family tree keeps going.
And eventually, nearly every presidential branch arrives at the same place:
King John Lackland.
Secret America exposing this on their episode “It’s All Connected,” has made everyone wonder if this is the biggest conspiracy in world history.
WATCH:
VIDEO AT LINK...........................
Perhaps we’ve spent too much time looking at America’s presidents individually.
Put them all on the same family tree and suddenly the picture looks very different.
One king.
Nearly every president.
Hundreds of years of history.
And one extraordinary exception.
Martin Van Buren.
You can call it coincidence.
You can call it statistical inevitability.
But when the same bloodlines keep appearing at the highest levels of power, there’s another possibility worth considering:
Maybe it was never as random as we were told.
Barbara Bush, nee Pierce, was a descendent of Franklin Pierce, POTUS March 4, 1853 – March 4, 1857..............
Peter Santanello did a YouTube podcast episode about the northernmost section of Maine. Right on the New Brunswick border. He visited a museum that gave the history of the Acadians. He visited towns on both sides of the Maine/New Brunswick border.
I subscribe to his YouTube Channel. He goes all around the world interviewing the man on the street. Typically hooks up with a local to take him around.
Show him the lay of the land.
He has been doing a multi part series on Maine. From the city of Portland to the lobster fisherman to the salt of the earth types. Men/women who work in the woods, the factories or on the ocean.
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First Family of Virginia. Carter in particular was distantly related to the wealthy Carters of the colonial era.
People don’t realize the stock of the original America, the old freepers who have done some genealogy for their distinguished family names and then looked at the names of their classmates from elementary school in the 50s, might be amazed at the high tone and quality of the names, not that everyone was rich and elite but that they are the names of those who made America and came mostly from Britain and how they eventually connect to so much as one keeps going back.
Nice tin foil Pickelhaube.
It’s all about math:
2 parents
4 grandparents
8 great grandparents
16 great-great grandparents
32 great x3 grandparents
64 great x4 grandparents
128 great x5 grandparents...........ad infinitum.........
Smith, Jones. ;-D
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“””looked at the names of their classmates from elementary school in the 50s, might be amazed at the high tone and quality of the names”””
So true. I have discussed with some of my high school classmates about their ancestry, but have not taken the time to go beyond what they know.
Your formula works until you run into a case of incest.
I’ve been told that.
Which gives credence to the “Leave early, stay long and return late.”
What’d it take out? 1/3rd of the population? Then there are all the other deathly illnesses. Wars, etc.
America was unique in the world and in history and the quality of those first few generations was extraordinary, whether leaders or rough-hewn pioneers and farmers, mountain men and tradesmen, they and their women were special and what in such a short time made America so special, a specialness that echoed far into the future, even after mass immigration started the breakdown.
Thanks. I made it from left-over foil burrito wrappings (inside joke)
That would explain a lot................😏
Is this anything like “The Six Degrees to Kevin Bacon”?
This is the six connections to Bacon stuff.
Wanna blow yer mind? Trace your genealogy back to when yours owned slaves. Not gonna be more than a handful of generations.
A couple years back I heard a few teenage kids in New Brunswick talking amongst themselves and couldn’t make heads of tails of what they were saying. I wonder if the Acadian kids in Louisiana could have understood them.
Not in mine..............
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