Exactly and considering how INACCURATE Ancestry.com and Mormon records are anyway, I’m doubting the validity of this.
Mormon genealogy is very inaccurate.
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...
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.