Now they're digging up family trees!

"It turns out the woman attempting to become the first female president of the United States can count among her relations Alanis Morissette, Celine Dion and former prime minister Pierre Trudeau. Madonna and "On the Road" author Jack Kerouac are also counted among her relatives.


"It is common to find people of French Canadian descent to be related to large numbers of other French Canadians, including these notables," said NEHGS genealogist Christopher Child in a news release.


Clinton is also related to Camilla Parker-Bowles, who is married to Prince Charles.


Obama doesn't have high profile genealogical connections to Canada, but is distant cousins with at least six other former U.S. presidents, including President George W. Bush and his father, Gerald Ford, Lyndon Johnson, Harry Truman and James Madison.


Obama, who has a white mother from Kansas and a black father from Kenya, is also related to Robert E. Lee, who was a general during the Civil War.


His lineage also stretches across the Atlantic, where he can count former Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill as a cousin, though most of the ancestry from Obama's mother's side is from the southern and mid-Atlantic states, Child said. " (From CTV).