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ANCESTRY.COM Reveals Mitt Romney’s Presidential Genes: 2012 GOP Hopeful Is Related to Six Presidents
ancestry.com ^ | December 20, 2011 | ancestry.com

Posted on 01/13/2012 6:17:22 PM PST by Brown Deer

Leading Family History Site also Links GOP Candidates Huntsman and Perry to Former Presidents and American Legends

PROVO, UTAH (December 20, 2011) - As Americans prepare to cast their votes in the 2012 Republican Presidential primaries and caucuses starting January 3 in Iowa, Ancestry.com today announced that several key Republican presidential contenders have historic political leaders in their genes – suggesting that the upcoming primaries are really one grand ol’ family party.

The world’s largest online family history resource has discovered that Mitt Romney leads the pack in presidential lineage with six former Commanders–in-Chief in his family history.  The former Massachusetts governor's family tree includes relations to Presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt, Coolidge, Pierce, Hoover and both President George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush.

Not far behind in presidential pedigree is former Utah Governor Jon Huntsman, whose family tree boasts four former heads of state: Presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt, Coolidge and both Presidents Bush.  

The buck stops with Texas Governor Rick Perry, who can claim President Harry Truman and legendary Texas Governor Sam Houston in his tree.

“We find in these politicians’ family trees links to the foundations of the country – early settlers seeking freedom and opportunities, Revolutionary War patriots, and even American legends,” said Anastasia Harman, Lead Family Historian for Ancestry.com. “Time and again American politicians have family ties to our country’s founders and past leaders. It seems the traits that forged past leaders have been handed down through generations to our current and hopeful leaders.”  



TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: genealogy; huntsman; perry; romney
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To: bigheadfred

My days of running around naked are long gone but I like the idea of my relative running away from the Indians naked as a jay bird. As you know, he survived, as later I got to be born.


61 posted on 01/13/2012 9:22:33 PM PST by Saundra Duffy ( For victory & freedom!!!)
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To: Brown Deer

Oh no! I am suppose to be distantly related to the Bushes. That would mean I may be in a gene pool with Romney. Yuk!


62 posted on 01/13/2012 9:33:13 PM PST by Bellflower
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To: Past Your Eyes

Actually they are not.
My mother’s bDay is incorrect as well as her death date, no way to correct it.
That’s just a start.
Oh, yea and the fact that Jesus had three wives.


63 posted on 01/13/2012 9:48:55 PM PST by svcw (For the new year: you better toughen up, if you are going to continue to be stupid.)
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To: Brown Deer

Hmmm. Looks like I’m related to Romney — off the top of my head I think it’s 7th cousins twice removed. With the common ancestor of Charles Doucet.

But really, that many generations back half of all Americans with any ancestry in the U.S. prior to 1800 can find a relationship one way or another.


64 posted on 01/13/2012 9:52:28 PM PST by ElkGroveDan (My tagline is in the shop.)
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To: reaganaut

ANCESTRY.COM Reveals Mitt Romney’s Presidential Genes: 2012 GOP Hopeful Is Related to Six Presidents
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Maybe he is but being related to 6 presidents of Mormonism has nothing to do with being the one who should be elected to be President of the United States...


65 posted on 01/13/2012 10:11:01 PM PST by Tennessee Nana
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To: Brown Deer

Time and again American politicians have family ties to our country’s founders and past leaders. It seems the traits that forged past leaders have been handed down through generations to our current and hopeful leaders.”
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yeah that Benedict Arnold trait shows up in Williard Mitt Romney..


66 posted on 01/13/2012 10:14:05 PM PST by Tennessee Nana
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To: Scoutmaster

Thank you for the corrections. You are right.


67 posted on 01/13/2012 10:16:20 PM PST by varina davis (Elect a real American patriot in 2012 -- Gov. Rick Perry)
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To: Brown Deer

So what are we to conclude from this? That elitist inbreeding produces libtards? Here I thought the muzzie-loving, globull-warming, rat-faced buffoon Prince Charles was the poster boy for elitist inbreds. But now it looks like we’re giving the Brit elites a run for their money on our own side of the pond after a couple hundred years of our own elitist inbreeding.


68 posted on 01/13/2012 10:28:00 PM PST by MCH
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To: Brown Deer

Oh, frak. According to your list I am related to Huntsman, as I am also related to several of those guys. YULK!!!!!


69 posted on 01/13/2012 11:00:44 PM PST by svcw (For the new year: you better toughen up, if you are going to continue to be stupid.)
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To: svcw

My ancestors came here on the Neiw Netherlandt from Holland in 1623,

from England with Winthops Fleet in 1630

From Holland in 1636

from Holland in 1645

Some French/Dutch in between

From France thru England in 1680

From Germany thru England in 1710

from Ireland in 1720

If the Flying Inman families go back far enough in this country then Im probably related to them

and thats a good thing

:)


70 posted on 01/13/2012 11:15:47 PM PST by Tennessee Nana
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To: Mercat

“Sad that I know all this. I need to get a live.”

I didn’t know you were dead, ... heheheheh....


71 posted on 01/14/2012 4:19:10 AM PST by flaglady47 (When the gov't fears the people, liberty; When the people fear the gov't, tyranny.)
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To: Brown Deer

I’m pretty sure Romney’s got some Carter, LBJ, Slick Willie and 0bummer in him too.


72 posted on 01/14/2012 6:49:29 AM PST by shove_it (just undo it)
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To: Tennessee Nana; Jim Robinson
Mitt Romney is a 6th cousin twice removed of Bozo the Clown!


73 posted on 01/14/2012 6:55:23 AM PST by Brown Deer (Pray for 0bama. Psalm 109:8)
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To: ErnBatavia

The interesting thing about Mormons is that they are primarily of Anglo-Saxon descent from England. Meanwhile relatively few Scots-Irish (often confused with English) are Mormons. It could be a cultural thing. I guess moonshining and Mormonism just don’t mix.


74 posted on 01/14/2012 6:58:23 AM PST by PJ-Comix ("Now I am become Death, destroyer of oysters" ---from the Buffetvad Gita)
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To: cynwoody
Driving home one evening durint the run-up to the 2004 election, I happened to tune in to the BBC. They were interviewing some expert on the British peerage. The twit reported that (1) victorious US presidential candidates are those with the most connections to the peerage and (2) thatthe French-looking John Forbes Kerry, who went to Viet Nam, was way ahead of GWB in that category.

Sniff! Poor GWB. He can't claim descent for the famous Duke of Kohn.

75 posted on 01/14/2012 7:02:47 AM PST by PJ-Comix ("Now I am become Death, destroyer of oysters" ---from the Buffetvad Gita)
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To: af_vet_rr; reaganaut

I am aware of that, vet. Silly people, really.
Maybe I should have said that Mormons are really big into it.


76 posted on 01/14/2012 7:19:22 AM PST by Past Your Eyes (I'm not cut out to suffer fools like this.)
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To: Tennessee Nana

Hey, cousin, I bet we are related.
My Mom’s family landed in 1625, settled in what’s now called NYC.
The Van Kortricks, went to Ohio (territory) around 1750. (Oh, yea James Monroe came outa that line - whooohoo.)
My Dad’s family came through Eilis Island 1912, from Sicily.


77 posted on 01/14/2012 8:21:29 AM PST by svcw (For the new year: you better toughen up, if you are going to continue to be stupid.)
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To: Tennessee Nana

Oh, forgot Mom’s family from Holland.


78 posted on 01/14/2012 8:22:24 AM PST by svcw (For the new year: you better toughen up, if you are going to continue to be stupid.)
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To: reaganaut
Mormon genealogy is very inaccurate.

The submitted lineages have errors because they were submitted by people (not always Mormoms) who didn't know what they were doing (the same goes with the Ancestry lineages). However the records in the form of microfilms and transcribed databases of church registries, censuses, military enlistment documents etc. etc., are 99.99% accurate. It is the compilation in one place of all these records that is so valuable. The lineages are still useful for pointing you in one direction. If you see one that says you are descended from Ben Franklin, that's nice, but you need to verify the sources that person used yourself. Genealogy is long hard work, but it's very rewarding when you know the details you found are thorough and correct.

That all said, I am confident that these Presidential lineages are accurate. When the Mormons release this stuff the last thing they need to is to reproduce some goof a little old lady made 50 years ago, so they have professional researchers sit down and reconstruct the entire thing record-by-record.

79 posted on 01/14/2012 8:28:24 AM PST by ElkGroveDan (My tagline is in the shop.)
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To: ElkGroveDan

I found errors even in the microfilms, not just submissions. Even my genealogy instructor at BYU admitted the records aren’t as accurate as they claim.

just sayin’ my experience is different and I never trust anything that comes out of Mormon HQ - again based upon experience.


80 posted on 01/14/2012 8:34:19 AM PST by reaganaut (If Romney is a conservative then IÂ’m the frickin Angel Moroni.)
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