Genealogists Call Bush and Kerry kin

Honolulu Star-Bulletin ^ | February 16, 2004 | Matt Sedensky

[microgood]

MSN had this tree last Friday which says Bush and Colin Powell were related and had the actual tree in there. But Bush went back to a King of England (Longshank) and the tree split about 1300 or so and then Colin was a descendant of a Jamaican slave named Sarah way down the line. The tree started in the 1300s though. Pretty wild stuff. Does not mean anything about today but is interesting.

[js1138]

That means Bush is also Irish. Skull and bones must be having fits. Garry Trudeau must be having fits.

[red-dawg]

Harrison said his motivation in finding the link wasn't political

[yevgenie]

commish wrote:
"I believe everybody on the planet is related if you go back far enough," said Harrison, 51, I believe thier names where Adam and Eve, Mr. Harrison.

I'd say even later than Adam and Eve, like, Noah's family.

[Scenic Sounds]

Did you know that dogs and humans shared 95% of their genetic code???

Thanks, I didn't know the details. I knew only that we are nearly as evolved as dogs in many ways and in some ways even more evolved. Spiritually, though, we have a long way to go to catch up with dogs. ;-)

[Callahan]

I miss ol' Alex. I used to listen to his show all the time when I lived in Austin. He had a different tinfoil hat for every occasion.

[GeronL]

I heard that figure a long time ago. Some TV show where some atheist says we are almost monkeys and someone on the other side said you are almost a dog too.

[JRios1968]

16 degrees of Ketchup?

[Dan from Michigan]

Since Bush and JFK are both of English blood, one of my ancestors might have buried one of theirs in a backyard.....

[TedsGarage]

Kerry is not Irish. He's half English and half Jewish. They're related through his mother's family, the Forbeses.

[CzarNicky]

"Because King George V, Kaiser Wilhelm II, Tsar Nicholas II wouldn't have either."

He started it.

[ASA Vet]

believe thier names where Adam and Eve, Mr. Harrison

According to later stories in your book the
line would start at Noah and wife.

[js1138]

That was sarcasm. Kerry seem to have a protestant ancestor who passed through Ireland in the 1600s. Or something like that.

[Theresawithanh]

To paraphrase the great Homer Simpson

"Genealogists, is there anything they don't know?"

;-D

[Vigilanteman]

I would suspect that the common ancestor to both Bush and Kerry is one John Lathrop, who was exiled from England to America in 1634 and was later expelled from the Plymouth Bay colony for preaching an unorthodox form of Puritanism. Almost anyone who can trace their ancestry to the Barnstable area of Cape Cod is related to Lathrop including U.S. Grant, FDR and Teddy. Interestingly enough, Benedict Arnold also springs from the same family tree and, I suspect, is the nearest relative of JFK II-- the exception being that Benedict was a real, not an imaginary, war hero before he changed sides.

[ccmay]

Yep, almost anyone in this country with a drop of English blood can get back to the English Royal family.

The mathematics of genealogy fascinate me. Like you say, almost anyone with any English blood can find their way back to one or another of the kings, and moreover, if you had an ancestor in this country before 1850, it is a virtual mathematical certainty that you are a Mayflower descendant as well.

What's more, it can be shown that essentially all people of European ancestry are descendants of both Charlemagne and Mohammed, and practically everyone save a few pure-blood Indians and Pacific Islanders are descendants of Julius Caesar, Nefertiti, and Alexander the Great.

There was a great story on this in the Atlantic Magazine a few years ago, called "The Royal We".

-ccm

[foreverfree]

I miss ol' Alex. I used to listen to his show all the time when I lived in Austin. He had a different tinfoil hat for every occasion.

He webcasts on infowars.com (click on the main stream or the backup stream on the right side of the screen). I have on his rebroadcast of today's show as I type. He has a guest on talking about a Baptist church having a turn in your guns day.

foreverfree

[foreverfree]

Oops, the guest just hung up.

foreverfree

[Cacique]

btt

[Amelia]

Ewwwww!

I'd never heard that one before.