Isn't that amazing? I have a distant cousin running on both tickets in the 2008 Presidential election! See here for my cousinhood with Barack Obama.
Robert Battle has an Ancestry of Sarah Palin at http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~battle/palin.htm. I checked the list of ancestors, and Sarah (Heath) Palin, present Governor of Alaska and Republican vice-presidential nominee, has a significant New England and Mayflower ancestry (Warren, Howland, Brewster, Tilley and Hopkins) and also has several ancestors in common with me:
* 14590 Richard Warren (1578-1628)
* 14591 Elizabeth Walker (????-1673)
* 15894 Thomas Prence (1600-1673)
Sarah (Heath) Palin is the 11th great-granddaughter of these three people, and I am the 10th great-grandson of them. So that makes Sarah my 10th cousin once removed. How cool is that?
The offer still holds for both of my cousins on the tickets - if you want to come visit me in Chula Vista, I have a guest room waiting. We can talk about our common ancestry.... unless you really care about my political opinions.
3 comments:
http://familyforest.wordpress.com/2008/10/21/sarah-palin-is-related-to-who/
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http://familyforest.wordpress.com/2008/10/30/senator-obama%e2%80%99s-famous-and-infamous-relatives/
Just in from the Honolulu dvertiser
on Palin family ties
http://www.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/20081030/BREAKING01/81030086
Also on Sarah Palin and her family ties:
http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-10-13/look-whos-related/?cid=sexybeast:mainpromo3#gallery=835;page=2
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