[w1andsodidwe]

Not so.

Well, I disagree. I personally have a common ancestor with W and most amazing of all have traced my ancestry back to Old King Cole. My guess is that most people can do a similar thing.

[traditional1]

WAIT !

I think I'm onto something here.....

[muawiyah]

Most of the genealogies that manage to link anybody to George Washington and other Famous Families of Virginia neglect a very important fact ~ it's called Bacon's Rebellion.

As part of the deal for settling issues leftover from the Rebellion, all but about 4% of Virginia residents at the time (circa 1676) changed their surnames. That way they could not be held accountable for acts charged to anyone with their former name ~ such was the state of the law in those days.

I've noticed that ALL the George Washington genealogies ignore this facet of his family's life in the New World.