Cheney, Obama are eighth cousins :)
Anon
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This made me smile. I guess if we all go back in our history far enough, we can find someone we are happily or unhappily related to....
Cheney, Obama are eighth cousins
Wednesday Oct 17 20:03 AEST
AP - Though they may spar across the political aisle, US Vice President Dick Cheney is close enough to Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama to call him "cousin".
Eighth cousin, that is.
Lynne Cheney, the vice president's wife, revealed this tantalising bit of American political trivia during a television interview.
She said she uncovered the long-ago ties between the two while researching her ancestry for her latest book, Blue Skies, No Fences, a memoir about growing up in Wyoming.
"This is such an amazing American story that one ancestor ... could be responsible down the family lines for lives that have taken such different and varied paths as Dick's and Barack Obama," Lynne Cheney told MSNBC.
According to her spokeswoman, Obama, an Illinois Democrat, is a descendant of Mareen Duvall. This French Huguenot's son married the granddaughter of a Richard Cheney, who arrived in Maryland in the late 1650s from England, said Ginny Justice, a spokeswoman for Lynne Cheney.
The vice president's full name is Richard B Cheney.
A spokesman for Obama, who wants to be the first black US president, offered a tongue-in-cheek response.
"Every family has a black sheep," said spokesman Bill Burton.
Lynne Cheney did not reference the ancestral ties between her husband and Obama in the book.
http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=306764
Cheney, Obama are eighth cousins
Wednesday Oct 17 20:03 AEST
AP - Though they may spar across the political aisle, US Vice President Dick Cheney is close enough to Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama to call him "cousin".
Eighth cousin, that is.
Lynne Cheney, the vice president's wife, revealed this tantalising bit of American political trivia during a television interview.
She said she uncovered the long-ago ties between the two while researching her ancestry for her latest book, Blue Skies, No Fences, a memoir about growing up in Wyoming.
"This is such an amazing American story that one ancestor ... could be responsible down the family lines for lives that have taken such different and varied paths as Dick's and Barack Obama," Lynne Cheney told MSNBC.
According to her spokeswoman, Obama, an Illinois Democrat, is a descendant of Mareen Duvall. This French Huguenot's son married the granddaughter of a Richard Cheney, who arrived in Maryland in the late 1650s from England, said Ginny Justice, a spokeswoman for Lynne Cheney.
The vice president's full name is Richard B Cheney.
A spokesman for Obama, who wants to be the first black US president, offered a tongue-in-cheek response.
"Every family has a black sheep," said spokesman Bill Burton.
Lynne Cheney did not reference the ancestral ties between her husband and Obama in the book.
http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=306764
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Coming from a large island, I am probably 8th cousin with the lot of the 30.000 people there.
Fun, but go back far enough, and most people is related to most people.
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