Bush family traced back to invader of Ireland (Bush's Fault Alert:)

Globe and Mail ^ | 27 Jan 2005 | Agence France-Presse

[RAY]

Wish the hell I knew of whom I descended - I'd like to kick his / their tail(s) - their genes aren't worth a damn - 'course I've done as little with 'em as possible.

Aw, it is good to be able to blame someone for your shortcomings!

[ops33]

My wife is also a direct descendant of William Marshal and Isabella de Clare. They had nine children, to my knowledge and there are probably millions of people in the US today who are descendants of these two.

[Political Junkie Too]

"I am George the Bush, of the Clan Marshall. There can be only ONE!"

-PJ

[Cornpone]

I have the power!!;-)

[blanknoone]

Distant genealogy gets pretty wacky. For example, consider at this range (30 generations), assuming that there wasn't overlap and inbreeding among all the lines that led to the President (which there was), he would have had 2 raised to the 30th power ancestors. That is 1,073,741,824. Over a billion. There weren't even actually a billion people in the whole world yet.

Virtually any who can fully trace their ancestry for 30 generations is almost guaranteed to have multiple relations with anyone else, at least from the same continent.

[Wild Irish Rogue]

" Actually, Kerry's paternal grandfather is Jewish. His original family name is "Kohn" not "Kerry"

That's what always drove me crazy about Kerry, well, actually one of many things.
Kerry knew his mother's side was English and yet, Kerry claimed that it was not until the Boston Globe did a genealogical search in 2003
that he discovered he was, in fact , the grandson of Austrian immigrants and not Irish immigrants.

His grandparents Fritz and Ida Kohn emigrated to the US, when they were in their early 30s , late 20s respectively.
While the grandfather killed himself before Kerry was born, his grandmother Ida lived until he was 17.
Grandma Ida must have spoken with an accent and it was not an Irish brogue.
I also find it hard to believe that Bubbe Ida , even though a convert to Catholicism, would have abandoned all of her Yiddish idioms ,especially the terms of endearment.
And the media played along with Kerry's charade.
Not one of them dared ask Kerry-
" Senator, when your Grandmother spoke and her accent was similar to Arnold Schwarzenegger or Wolfgang Puck-
could that have been a hint that you weren't Irish ? "

[Cornpone]

"Distant genealogy gets pretty wacky."

I know. We already know that everyone is descended from Lucy but Robert Mugabe from Zimbabwe is the only surviving, direct descendant which is why he has a legitimate claim to the entire planet...sorry to digress. I'm just desperately searching for some way to defend my property rights.

[don-o]

This ping is for you.

Thanks.

I'm struggling here with a right response to Bush'a fault posters. Who have got on my last nerve.

Moose and cheese keeps rattling in me brain.....

[crz]

And without just one of them in the line, not one of us would be here. Think on that one for a second. Just one, one person missing and we are not born. Simple maybe a stupid thought? Yes, but I say its a amazing a lot of people are even here. There were wars, plagues, starvations and what not.

[festus]

then one of our committee members had a Republican friend in Chicago," she said. "We got the genealogy chart from there

This is only slightly more reliable than getting your genealogy charts faxed from Kinkos. I mean now we are being asked to believe in the mythical Chicago republican.

[rustbucket]

Hey, I'm descended from Elizabeth Plantagenet also. And from her husband Humphrey de Bohun VIII, 4th Earl of Hereford and Essex. As is most of England I'll bet.

[queenkathy]

Next thing we'll hear is that George W. Bush can be traced back to Adam and Eve. Imagine

[gringo_in_Akita]

I am related to President Bush through his mother, as we share a common Mayflower descendent, a boy who came over at the age of 16 by the name of Henry Samson. Professional geneologists have traced Henry Samson back to a man by the name of Wido de Reinbudcourt, a doomsday governor under William the Conquerer- so Bush is related to him, too.

[EllaMinnow]

Wow, if this is true, I'm related to President Bush!

[Slainte]

Mmm, you have fine taste in cider, sir!

[Splatter]

[Splatter]

BUSHHEART--Yes, I've heard. Kills men by the hundreds, and if he were here he'd consume the English with fireballs from his eyes and bolts of lightning from his ass. I am George Bush, and I see before me an army of my countrymen here in defiance of tyranny. You have come to fight as free men, and free men you are. What would you do without freedom? Will you fight?

[still_learning]

I thought "John the Strange" was the guy GWB just beat in November!

[montag813]

As if the Irish don't hate Bush enough. F-them.

[Verginius Rufus]

Bryan Sykes' recent book Adam's Curse has a chapter on Somerled: "The Y-Chromosome of Somhairle Mor." He argues that the DNA evidence shows that Somerled's paternal ancestry was Norse (some had argued that it was Celtic based on Irish genealogies that have been preserved). He found that the heads of the clans which claim to be descended from Somerled have the same Y-chromosome, indicating common ancestry. The proportion of other men with those surnames who carry that Y-chromosome varies from one family to another.