All genealogy folk with online resources - it's PALIN time!

[Dem2theMax]

Hey everyone. Last night I toyed around with my NewspaperArchive.com account and I found all sorts of things that Sarah Palin didn't want us to know about.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x6876774

Apparently, John McSame didn't know about any of this either. LOL.

I also checked Ancestry.com and The Godfrey Library. At Godfrey, I found that Sarah had a misdemeanor in her past. It's been posted on DU too. :)

I'm here to ask all of you wonderful detectives to use whatever online resources you have to see what you can find on Mrs. Palin, and share it with everyone here at DU.

Yes, this post deserves an :evilgrin:

[CBHagman]

1. More stuff on Palin.

They say the fastest way to get your family history researched is to run for public office.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/08/AR2008100800119.html

Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin is distantly related to the late Princess Diana and late U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt, genealogy experts said on Wednesday.

The governor of Alaska and the princess are tenth cousins, while Palin and Roosevelt are ninth cousins once removed, said Ancestry.com, online genealogists based in Provo, Utah.

The genealogical connections are not the first to gain attention in the U.S. presidential campaign. Last year, Lynne Cheney said she found while tracing her family roots that her husband Vice President Dick Cheney was a distant cousin of Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama.

Other researchers discovered Obama is distant cousins with actor Brad Pitt.

FDR, of the fireside chat and ready wit, related to nails-on-the-blackboard Palin?! Oy.

[NOLALady]

2. She's connected to Obama through the Hincleys.

10th Cousins.

[cornermouse]

3. I don't like Palin

(statement that has apparently become mandatory in order to not be tombstoned) but as far as I'm concerned this is a misuse of genealogy. Genealogy is about family, not politics and I prefer to keep some areas of my life free of politics so I'm saying "No."

[Spider Jerusalem]

4. Palin's ancestry, 15 generations, here:

http://wargs.com/political/heath.html