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How the Work of a 12-Year-Old Girl Uncovered a Historical Oddity

It started with an American 12-year-old girl’s desire to trace her own heritage back to France. Along the way, she discovered that every single US President (except Martin Van Buren) are relatively closely related to just one man.

Meet BridgeAnne d'Avignon a gifted seventh grade student at Monte Vista School in Watsonville California. Prior to her work, genealogists only marginally associated about 19 US presidents as “distantly” related. She has created an amazing poster available at her website: http://weareallrelated.com/page.php?6

Her work started when she was just 10 years old when she discovered her Grandfather’s genealogy software and challenged herself with a simple question: “How many US Presidents are related?” The answer was an astounding coincidence.

Academic genealogists were more than shocked to discover that this association was in the historical record and overlooked by thousands of researchers. One of the secrets to BridgeAnne’s work was to trace the genealogy of both parents. She was not sure where the journey would lead her to, but pushed on for over two years of research.


Every US President Is Part of One Bloodline

The distant grandfather to all US presidents is King John "Lackland" Plantagenet. The very same King John that was the antagonist to the Robin Hood story.



Update:

I have removed statements about conclusions drawn from her work on the probability of this exact circumstance occurring. This aspect was rather inflammatory to some. I will leave it up to the those interested to seek out this information. It is certain that when you factor out to a 7th cousin mathematically using the Diamond or Pyramid genealogy theory you have millions of people related. Of course, all of us are related, if one were to go far enough back in time. In the 846 years that have passed and the millions of potential outcomes, this to many is fascinating.

http://www.quora.com/Are-all-the-US-Pres...each-other

Official List:

Direct descent

The United States Presidents who are related to each other by direct descent are:

John Adams and John Quincy Adams (father and son)
William Henry Harrison and Benjamin Harrison (grandfather and grandson)
George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush (father and son)

Indirect relatives

This is a list of some of the closer blood relations, other than direct descent, between U.S. Presidents. (See Cousin chart to understand the terms used here.)
Second cousins

James Madison and Zachary Taylor
James K. Polk and Zachary Taylor
James Madison and James K. Polk (once removed)
Thomas Jefferson and John F. Kennedy (six times removed)
George W. Bush and Franklin Pierce (six times removed)

Third cousins

George Washington and Zachary Taylor (once removed)
Martin Van Buren and Theodore Roosevelt (three times removed)
Martin Van Buren and Franklin D. Roosevelt (four times removed)
George Washington and Grover Cleveland (four times removed)
John Adams and Calvin Coolidge (five times removed)
John Quincy Adams and Calvin Coolidge (six times removed)
Barack Obama and James Madison (nine times removed)
George Washington and Franklin D. Roosevelt (nine times removed)

Fourth cousins

William Henry Harrison and John Tyler (once removed)
Ulysses Grant and Franklin D. Roosevelt (once removed)
Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Harrison (once removed)
John Adams and Millard Fillmore (three times removed)
John Quincy Adams and Franklin D. Roosevelt (three times removed)
Lyndon B. Johnson and Barack Obama (three times removed)
Zachary Taylor and Franklin D. Roosevelt (half-cousins, three times removed)
James Garfield and George H. W. Bush (three times removed)
John Quincy Adams and Millard Fillmore (four times removed)
James Garfield and George W. Bush (four times removed)
George Washington and George H. W. Bush (nine times removed)
George Washington and George W. Bush (ten times removed)

Fifth cousins

Theodore Roosevelt and Franklin Roosevelt
Millard Fillmore and Grover Cleveland (once removed)
Rutherford Hayes and Grover Cleveland (once removed)
John Tyler and Benjamin Harrison (once removed)
James Garfield and William Taft (once removed)
John Quincy Adams and Millard Fillmore (twice removed)
Millard Fillmore and Warren Harding (twice removed)
Ulysses Grant and Calvin Coolidge (three times removed)
George Washington and Benjamin Harrison (three times removed)
John Quincy Adams and William Taft (four times removed)
Millard Fillmore and Herbert Hoover (four times removed)
Grover Cleveland and Gerald Ford (four times removed)
Millard Fillmore and Gerald Ford (five times removed)
Franklin Pierce and George W. Bush (five times removed)

Sixth cousins

Grover Cleveland and Rutherford B. Hayes (once removed)
Calvin Coolidge and George H.W. Bush (twice removed)
Calvin Coolidge and George W. Bush (three times removed)
Rutherford B. Hayes and George H.W. Bush (three times removed)
William Taft and George H.W. Bush (three times removed)
Rutherford B. Hayes and George W. Bush (four times removed)
William Taft and George W. Bush (four times removed)
Theodore Roosevelt and George Washington (four times removed)
Ulysses Grant and George H.W. Bush (five times removed)
Ulysses Grant and George W. Bush (six times removed)

Seventh cousins

Gerald Ford and George H.W. Bush
Gerald Ford and George W. Bush (once removed)
Grover Cleveland and George H.W. Bush (twice removed)
Grover Cleveland and George W. Bush (three times removed)
James Garfield and George Washington (three times removed)
Harry S. Truman and Barack Obama (three times removed)
Theodore Roosevelt and George H.W. Bush (three times removed)
Theodore Roosevelt and George W. Bush (four times removed)
Abraham Lincoln and George H.W. Bush (four times removed)
Abraham Lincoln and George W. Bush (five times removed)

Eighth cousins

Jimmy Carter and Barack Obama (twice removed)
Ronald Reagan and George Washington (three times removed)
Thomas Jefferson and George Washington (three times removed)
Richard Nixon and George Washington (five times removed)
Lyndon B. Johnson and George Washington (six times removed)

Ninth cousins

Franklin Pierce and George Washington (once removed)
Calvin Coolidge and George Washington (twice removed)
Andrew Johnson and George Washington (four times removed)
Herbert Hoover and George Washington (four times removed)
William McKinley and George Washington (four times removed)
Richard Nixon and George H.W. Bush (four times removed)
Richard Nixon and George W. Bush (five times removed)
Warren G. Harding and George Washington (five times removed)
Barack Obama and George Washington (six times removed)
Jimmy Carter and George Washington (six times removed)

Tenth cousins

Herbert Hoover and George H.W. Bush
Barack Obama and George H.W. Bush (once removed)
Barack Obama and Gerald Ford (once removed)
Herbert Hoover and George W. Bush (once removed)
Chester A. Arthur and George Washington (once removed)
John Adams and George Washington (once removed)
Rutherford B. Hayes and George Washington (once removed)
John Quincy Adams and George Washington (twice removed)
Ulysses S. Grant and George Washington (three times removed)
Abraham Lincoln and George Washington (four times removed)
Dwight D. Eisenhower and George Washington (five times removed)

Eleventh cousins

Barack Obama and George W. Bush
James Buchanan and George Washington
John Tyler and George Washington (once removed)
Millard Fillmore and George Washington (twice removed)
John F. Kennedy and George Washington (three times removed)
Harry S. Truman and George Washington (five times removed)
Woodrow Wilson and George Washington (five times removed)
James K. Polk and George Washington (six times removed)

Twelveth cousins

Andrew Jackson and George Washington
James Monroe and George Washington (once removed)

Thirteenth cousins

George Washington and Lyndon B. Johnson (twice removed)

Seventeenth cousins

Ulysses S. Grant and William Henry Harrison (once removed)
Martin Van Buren and George Washington (three times removed)

Nineteenth cousins

Ulysses S. Grant and Benjamin Harrison (once removed)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Uni...ct_descent

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Here is the patriarch of all our presidents aka big daddy john



quite charming

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John,_King_of_England

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I am a distant cousin of Ronnie Raygun and have RH - blood.

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soooo....

Is Ron Paul related?

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So how does Martin Van Buren get to be the exception... Has to be some kind of a conspiracy involved with this supposed fact...

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Vegas  Wrote:

So how does Martin Van Buren get to be the exception... Has to be some kind of a conspiracy involved with this supposed fact...

the only president of dutch ancestry?

and this:

"In the election of 1832, the Jackson-Van Buren ticket won by a landslide (heavily due to the fact that Andrew Jackson was a popular war hero). When the election of 1836 came up, Jackson was determined to make Van Buren, his personal choice, President to continue his legacy."

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sia  Wrote:

Vegas  Wrote:

So how does Martin Van Buren get to be the exception... Has to be some kind of a conspiracy involved with this supposed fact...

the only president of dutch ancestry?

and this:

"In the election of 1832, the Jackson-Van Buren ticket won by a landslide (heavily due to the fact that Andrew Jackson was a popular war hero). When the election of 1836 came up, Jackson was determined to make Van Buren, his personal choice, President to continue his legacy."

Van Buren was the first president born a citizen of the United States, as all previous presidents were born before the American Revolution.

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my ancestry goes back to John Lakclund as well.....Maybe i'll be president one day...I'm related through Chief Justice John Marshall. Ironically, his father and George Washington traveled through Virginia wilderness on hikes when John was a boy

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LoP Guest  Wrote:

my ancestry goes back to John Lakclund as well.....Maybe i'll be president one day...

maybe

give it a shot, i would if i was in that lineage

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barbsat  Wrote:

I am a distant cousin of Ronnie Raygun and have RH - blood.

OMG! We're related!

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whats RH negative mean? youre a space alien or something?

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Since most of the original colonists were from that island (England) it stands to reason that anyone who intermarried with any of the colonists would be related. After all it was a Freakin island! Where were they supposed to get new blood?

Any American who can trace their linage to that island is by reason of logic - related.

This is a no brainer.

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Just2Laws  Wrote:

Since most of the original colonists were from that island (England) it stands to reason that anyone who intermarried with any of the colonists would be related.

well wake me up when someone with 0% english blood is president.

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jedijuju  Wrote:

barbsat  Wrote:

I am a distant cousin of Ronnie Raygun and have RH - blood.

OMG! We're related!

Me too, fellow reptoids!

I'm related to Abe Lincoln, and Jesse James, so so are you!

Post: #15

There is really no big mystery here. Its just simple math.
You take any two people in this country and if they are of the same ethnic group, chances are they will be at least 13th cousins.

Almost everyone of us on this message board are at least 13th cousins. And we are all related to every president too.