Family link is found between Obama and Scott Brown - LA Times (Crazy)

[rndmprsn]

http://www.latimes.com/news/nation-and-world/la-na-obama-scott31-2010jan31,0,3934556.story?track=rss

Family link is found between Obama and Scott Brown



...Despite the political chasm that separates the two men, however, Obama and Brown have at least one solid family link.

The New England genealogy experts report that Obama's mother, Stanley Ann Dunham, and Brown's mother, Judith Ann Rugg, both descended from Richard Singletary of Haverhill, Mass. He died in 1687 at 102.

Obama descends from Singletary's eldest son, Jonathan, who later changed his last name to Dunham. Brown descends from Singletary's other son, Nathaniel.

Brown said of his family ties to Obama: "I'm glad to be in such distinguished company."

In 2008, the society discovered that Obama is related to seven previous presidents: George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush, Jimmy Carter, Gerald Ford, Lyndon Johnson, Harry S. Truman and James Madison...

[kdmorris]

1. I don't know why they even do these

*I* am related to George Bush through the Walkers in Texas. He is my 6th cousin. I also am related to my husband. He's my 6th cousin once removed.

If you go back far enough, we are all related.

[Maine-ah]

8. then that makes us related somewhere, I think

:hi:

We're related to Bab's. Cousins.

[TuxedoKat]

10. I know

I found out after the last election that I was distantly related to both Bush and Kerry (like half of the USA) when they
discovered a link between those two. Haven't checked yet to see if I can find a link to Pres. Obama. It'd be much more
fun to say he was my 8th cousin ten times removed or something like that. I'm also distantly related to my husband too;
10th cousins 13 times removed I think it was.

[JTFrog]

2. Six degrees of separation. n/t

[FrenchieCat]

3. One looks like the current good looking President, while the other one has shifty eyes

Like George W. Bush! Kinda of rodent looking, if you ask me. :shrug:

I don't care if they are related going back to the 1600......

[Mass]

4. "10th cousins, " = solid family links?

:eyes:

Seriously. It always fascinated me how the media could make a story out of nothing. They both have a common ancestor who died in 1687 and it is worth mentioning?

[FrenchieCat]

5. Well perhaps the media is making the point....

that Obama couldn't be that Kenyan! I mean, look! He's related to a good old American White guy! :rofl:

[BlueGirlRedState]

6. Since my maiden name is Brown

I must be related to both of them....

[Mass]

7. That was exactly my thought when I heard that on TV.\nt

[dkf]

9. It is funny that it is more likely a white person sitting at home is

Tied to common ancestry with Obama than a Black person.

[Hippo_Tron]

11. Or maybe Scott Brown is Kenyan

I think we need to see his certificate of live birth.