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This is the surname link:
131,599 individuals, 48,809 families from file 20100304.ged (4 Mar 2010)
http://genweb.whipple.org/surnames.html
There are several US Presidents listed including FDR and the Bush family - also decended from Francis Cooke and his son John Cook
Most Presidents decendants have chosen to not give permission to post their genweb info and genlinks
The Bush family is not on Whipple.org for those reasons
I believe 15 US Presidents had/have Mayflower ancestors
Try:
Alden
Coolidge
Roosevelt
It is not unusual for an American citizen to have distant relatives to several US Presidents
95% of my old HS graduating class has surnames that show up on Whipple.org
LE, post # 567 was actually for you. Don’t know if you ever saw it or not.
Potlatch, me dear, thank you for the alert.
And thank you, Devolve, for the fascinating info.
I love both genealogy and early American history; finding one’s ancestors back in colonial and revolutionary times makes it so real, brings it alive.
Now, I wonder which of the U.S. presidents I am distantly related to.
The obsession in my mother’s family history was with claiming (what they thought was) their share of the Emmerich fortune.