Posted on 01/29/2010 8:00:09 AM PST by Dallas
Genealogists said Friday the Democratic president and the newly elected Massachusetts senator, Scott Brown, are 10th cousins. It was bad enough that President Obama lost his filibuster-proof margin in the U.S. Senate to a Republican. Now it turns out he also lost it to a relative. Genealogists said Friday the Democratic president and the newly elected Massachusetts senator, Scott Brown, are 10th cousins.
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Obama is related to Bush and Brown. I wonder how many of the Founding Fathers are related to Obama. How many of them are slave holders?
ROTFL! ;-D
Didn’t Genealogists find that Dick Cheney was also an Obama cousin? Wasn’t it closer than 10th cousins?
Obama has no slave blood, and he pretends he’s been discriminated against his whole life.
Yes, and didn’t they say he was related to Brad Pitt?
LMAO
>> 10th cousin is pretty remote. <<
Yep, when we say two persons are 10th cousins, it means they share at least one GGGGGGGGGgrandparent (nine “greats”).
But when you trace that far back, you have 2048 9th-great-grandparents (if we ignore the possibility of cousin marriages).
Given this huge number of ancestors, many of whom surely have millions of descendants alive today, I think it’s likely that just about any FReeper is a 10th cousin to thousands and thousands of other FReepers — not to mention being a cousin to at least a few POTI (or POTUSES, for you people in Rio Linda).
The Scott Browns have two daughters of marriageable age. Don’t let this get out or I predict terminal spinsterhood for those two innocent girls.
To be a genealogist, one must do genealogy. So what were we supposed expect of the genealogists involved in this exercise?
Kind of hard to do a genealogical search on someone with no birth certificate, no school records and where he even lived being in question.
What’s suprising is not that the new senator from Mass is related to the President, it’s that he isn’t related to a Kennedy.
The Scott Browns have two daughters of marriageable age. Don’t let this get out or I predict terminal spinsterhood for those two innocent girls.
Yep Scott was hawking this fact during his acceptance speech and one of the daughters appreared not to appreciate it one bit........
In fact there is a good chance they would have only 1 9th-great-grand-parent in common, because of ancestors who were married more than once and had children by different spouses. In either case, 10th cousins may not share any DNA, unless they are descended in the direct male line from a common ancestor and share the same Y chromosome.
Normally second cousins would share 2 of 8 great-grandparents in common. In my case I have second cousins with whom I have only one great-grandparent in common, since they are descended from my grandfather's stepmother.
Obama’s family tree looks like a spiderweb.
Relax.
Obama is a golem; an artificial construct animated by perverse majiks. No one is related to that alchemical homunculus. This is the real reason there are no birth records. Michelle is actually the children’s father.
;-)
Would Brown get reparations?
Maybe you or Brown can get a copy of the birth cert, your family right? Just sayin....
Oh, this is what Obama meant when he said people voted for Scott Brown for the same reason they voted for him — they like his family.
I don't Senator-to-be Brown has anything to be concerned about. It is just interesting.
Obama has no slave blood, and he pretends he’s been discriminated against his whole life.”
If he thinks he’s been tread upon up to now-———
Wait until Nov 2010 election results!
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