Is Kerry related to Steve Forbes?

[DaisyUCSB]

If anyone knows I appreciate the response

[JI7]

1. no

his middle name forbes from his mother's side of the family is a different forbes.

[AP]

2. That's not what Kerry's family members say.

All NE Forbes are related to each other, obviously some distantly. I don't know how closely Kerry's mother and Malcolm Forbes are related, but they are related. I don't know if Malcolm Forbes got his money from the same sources that Kerry's mother got her islands, but they're not that far apart.

[Ficus]

3. is Forbes skull and bones???

you never know it could be a huge conspiracy...Kerry really is a closet right winger!!! :eyes:

[bearfartinthewoods]

4. google...kerry forbes vietnam

but brace yourself for bad news.

[UTUSN]

6. Bad News?

That first hostile website, despite its slant, can't help but list a SLEW of personal accomplishments and excellings. Its dominant feature is that his roots with all things KENNEDY run deep. So if his anti-Vietnam activities are supposed to be detrimental, I don't think so, not around DU, or when there is any mention of the later Bobby KENNEDY. Feel free to UN-brace.

[starroute]

5. Here's Kerry's pedigree at a genealogy website

http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=PED&db=haruspex&id=I78117

It traces him back to a Scotsman named John Forbes (1740-83).


And here's one for Malcolm Forbes:
http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=PED&db=rkwest&id=I100650

It goes back only as far as his grandparents, who were married in Scotland in 1871. So it really doesn't look like there's any connection.


Here's a page with the ancestry of current candidates:
http://members.aol.com/wreitwiesn/candidates2004/
And one with the same information for the 2000 election:
http://members.aol.com/wreitwiesn/candidates2000/


On edit: found some more info.

[Metrix]

7. Picture of a many-removed cousin

Check out the resemblance:
http://www.uua.org/uuhs/duub/articles/johnforbes.html

[maddezmom]

8. JK has a lot more hair

but the resemblance is there. :)