BS: A Family Affair

Subject: BS: A Family Affair
From: beardedbruce
Date: 13 Oct 10 - 06:25 PM

Presidential blood?





Obama's related to Palin
            

Jocelyn Noveck, Ap National Writer – Wed Oct 13, 12:56 am ET


NEW YORK – President Barack Obama has family ties to none other than Sarah Palin, according to the genealogists at Ancestry.com, a discovery the family history site made when looking for connections between political foes.

And that's not all — Obama also is apparently related to conservative radio host and relentless critic Rush Limbaugh.

A genealogist at the Utah-based Ancestry.com, Anastasia Tyler, said Obama and Palin are 10th cousins through a common ancestor named John Smith, a pastor and early settler in 17th-century Massachusetts. Obama is related to Smith through his mother, as is Palin, Tyler said.

"Smith was against the persecution of the Quakers," Tyler said in an interview. "He was a very socially conscious man."

As for Limbaugh, he's also a 10th cousin of the president — one time removed — through a common ancestor named Richmond Terrell, who Tyler said was a large landowner in Virginia, also in the 17th century. "His history is a little more nebulous," Tyler said.

Subject: RE: BS: A Family Affair
From: Bill D
Date: 13 Oct 10 - 06:32 PM

Good grief! That means *I* might be related to beardedbruce!

Of course, if you go back a few hundred generations, it gets REALLY interesting! And about 35,000-40,000 years ago, there was a narrow window where MOST of us were related.

Subject: RE: BS: A Family Affair
From: Wesley S
Date: 13 Oct 10 - 06:51 PM

Aren't we all just one big happy family? Y'know - the circle of life, Kumbya ect?

Subject: RE: BS: A Family Affair
From: bobad
Date: 13 Oct 10 - 06:57 PM

We're all related - relatively speaking.

Subject: RE: BS: A Family Affair
From: Sorcha
Date: 13 Oct 10 - 08:12 PM

Good gods, not this again! Isn't everybody 'related' to everybody? As in Family of Man?

And what about that 6th removal thing? (I'm tired, can't remember exactly)........


OK, BB......enuf is quite ENUF. Thank you very much.

Subject: RE: BS: A Family Affair
From: Joe_F
Date: 13 Oct 10 - 08:23 PM

Sure, we're all cousins thru that mitochondrial DNA lady in Africa. And what's more, there exist sufficiently large numbers m & n such that that dandelion on the lawn & I am mth cousins n times removed. We both do DNA, RNA, protein, oxidative phosphorylation of ADP, and all that jazz. A few tweaks, and you'd be able to blow me with a puff of breath.

Subject: RE: BS: A Family Affair
From: catspaw49
Date: 13 Oct 10 - 08:43 PM

Well, there IS a lot to be said for genetics. For instance, I was told by a reliable source that when it came to the size of his genitals, beardedbruce took after his mother....................


Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: A Family Affair
From: Amos
Date: 13 Oct 10 - 08:59 PM

Blame Lucy.


A

Subject: RE: BS: A Family Affair
From: katlaughing
Date: 13 Oct 10 - 09:35 PM

Mitakuye Oyasin...we are all related.

Subject: RE: BS: A Family Affair
From: Slag
Date: 13 Oct 10 - 10:16 PM

I safe so long as they don't tag the royal lines!