Ancestry/Genealogy

Spider Jerusalem

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22. If you're an American with colonial ancestry...

Wed Sep 4, 2019, 02:16 PM

Sep 2019

then you're almost certainly related to a huge number of more-or-less famous or notable people. I'm related to four presidents that I know of: Truman, Clinton, Bush II and Obama--Truman and Obama are also related to each other; they're both descendants of Mareen Duvall, a French Huguenot who settled in Maryland (his other descendants include Dick Cheney, Warren Buffett, Robert Duvall, Supreme Court justice Gabriel Duvall, film director John Waters, and yours truly); I'm also related to a surprising number of more-or-less famous people like Francis Scott Key, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Dr. Samuel Mudd (who set John Wilkes Booth's broken leg), Roger B. Taney (author of the worst Supreme Court decision ever), WWII-era pinup and actress Betty Grable, Queen Elizabeth II, several governors and US Senators, Alamo casualty Jim Bowie, Fred Rogers, etc.

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Trying to explain bloodlines [View all] Marthe48 Aug 2019 OP

I stopped working on genealogy after DURHAM D Aug 2019 #1

I have a couple interests Marthe48 Aug 2019 #9

Do you subscribe to ancestory? nt DURHAM D Aug 2019 #14

I've just used library resources Marthe48 Sep 2019 #17

I'm with your nephew......I really don'care. virgogal Aug 2019 #2

My kids are decendent of George Clinton, Jefferson's Vice President. 3Hotdogs Aug 2019 #3

Your nephew doesn't share any bloodlines with your husband unless I am missing seaglass Aug 2019 #4

I thought Marthe48 Aug 2019 #10

Well, think of it as DNA rather than blood as it pretty much means the same thing. seaglass Aug 2019 #13

I understand Marthe48 Sep 2019 #18

I feel that my distant relatives are no more a part of wasupaloopa Aug 2019 #5

I am not interested enough to have my dna tested Marthe48 Aug 2019 #11

My brother got his dna tested. He was told he came wasupaloopa Aug 2019 #16

The ads highlight results like that Marthe48 Sep 2019 #19

The only ancestry I'd be interested in is what previous lives my soul has occupied and if I Karadeniz Aug 2019 #6

You remain 'related' generations back but... WePurrsevere Aug 2019 #7

Thanks for the chart and explanation Marthe48 Aug 2019 #12

Taking biology definitely helps... WePurrsevere Aug 2019 #15

Don't feel too bad Marthe48 Sep 2019 #20

That chart is only about averages, though Spider Jerusalem Sep 2019 #21

Yes, that's correct and there's always the possibility... WePurrsevere Sep 2019 #23

ISOGG (the International Society of Genetic Genealogy) has some useful references as well: Spider Jerusalem Sep 2019 #24

WOW good information Marthe48 Aug 2019 #8

If you're an American with colonial ancestry... Spider Jerusalem Sep 2019 #22

That's incredible! Marthe48 Sep 2019 #25

A lot of research Spider Jerusalem Sep 2019 #34

geneaology is no fun at all when your mother is a holocaust survivor unblock Sep 2019 #26

You have my sympathy Marthe48 Sep 2019 #29

my mother and her parents were evicted unblock Sep 2019 #32

Harrowing story Marthe48 Sep 2019 #33

I'm 1/2 Armenian and there is nothing after my great grandparents LeftInTX Sep 2019 #35

I do not study this stuff Doreen Sep 2019 #27

Our genes mix every time a baby is made Marthe48 Sep 2019 #30

What I think matt819 Sep 2019 #28

I think you can develop character Marthe48 Sep 2019 #31

The things is... franzwohlgemuth Dec 2020 #36