If this is true, how wonderful. And, of course, wikitree claims I am related to Eleanor of Aquitaine.... I haven't quite proven that one yet... but it is one of the trees I have on Ancestry.com, so as hints show up, I can explore more fully. Isn't that a hoot?
Here is the article - found in an English newspaper, though the young lady hails from California.
Whenever the Daily Mail is involved, assume it's a lie. They're basically a grown up version of the Weekly World News. This, though, seems to be true, although it was not discovered by a 12 year old. http://www.geni.com/blog/look-whos-related-george-washington-and-all-the-presidents-325451.html and Baker used it to support his "Royal Candidate Theory" -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Brooks-Baker. It all makes more sense when you consider how the presidential gene pool is very narrow. Everyone is everyone else's cousin.
ReplyDeleteAnd, I was told, Andrew, that some of the connections are quite tenuous - thru marriages, for example...
ReplyDeleteWikitree is telling me that I am related to both Obama and Bush and also a couple Kings and Queens... so, someone else told me we are all related within 27th cousins.