My Relationships to United States Presidents - Post 1: 39 to 44

I can't seem to stay away from Geni.com and their search capability to find relationships with living persons.  I spent a little time today working backwards in time looking for my connections to the Presidents.  I'll do six here and do more later (blog fodder!):

1)  Barack Obama, 44th President is my 8th cousin once removed:

The common ancestors in the relationship above are Samuel Fitz Randolph (1668-1754) and Mary Jones (1672-1760).  I am fairly confident that this relationship is correct.  I have several other relationships that are somewhat more distant with him.

2)  George Walker Bush, 43rd President of the U.S., is my 8th cousin once removed:

The common ancestors above are John Horton (1672-1752) and Mehitable Garnsey (1673-1742).  I am fairly confident that this relationship is correct.

3)  William J. Clinton, 42nd President of the U.S., is my 8th cousin twice removed:

The common ancestors in the line above are George Soule (1593-1680) and Mary Bucket (1603-1676).  I am confident about my trail back to George Soule, but I'm unsure of the line from George Soule to Clinton.

4)  George Herbert Walker Bush, 41st President of the U.S., is my 8th cousin:

The common ancestors in the line above are John Horton (1672-1752) and Mehitable Garnsey (1673-1742).  I am fairly confident that this relationship is correct.

5)  Ronald Wilson Reagan, 40th President of the U.S. is my 14th cousin:

The common ancestors in the line above are John Sutton Lord Dudley (1495-1553) and Cicely Gray (1500-1554).  This relationship is questionable, in my opinion, due to the distance back to the common ancestor.

6)  James Earl Carter, 39th President of the U.S., is my 11th cousin:

The common ancestors in the line above are the parents of Elizabeth (Tuttle) Paine (1584-1658).  I don't have them in my database.  This relationship is questionable, in my opinion, due to the distance back to the common ancestor.

7)  I did not check the records for each relationship shown in the charts above.  I am confident that my lines back to the immigrant ancestors from England are correct, but I have no idea how accurate the lines are from the common ancestors to the Presidents.  Some are well researched, and have entries in the book by Gary Boyd Roberts, Ancestors of American Presidents (1989).  The lines for Clinton and Obama are not in the edition of the book I have.  There is a pedigree for Clinton at  http://www.wargs.com/political/clinton.html that does not include many of the ancestors in his line.

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