Barack Obama, Massachusetts Senator-Elected Scott Brown Related
Genealogists said Friday that the Democratic president and the newly elected senator from Massachusetts, Scott Brown, are 10th cousins.The New England Historic Genealogical Society said Obama's mother, Stanley Ann Dunham, and Brown's mother, Judith Ann Rugg, both descend from Richard Singletary of Haverhill, Mass.
He died in 1687 at the unheard-of, for the time, age of 102.
In 2008, the society discovered that Obama is related to seven prior presidents, including George H. W. Bush, George W. Bush, Jimmy Carter, Gerald Ford, Lyndon Johnson, Harry S. Truman and James Madison. They also learned he was related to actor Brad Pitt.
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It is very eery to realize how in some families, history repeats itself... Certain of their genes replicate themselves for ever, giving their owners the the same tastes, the same needs and similar lives...even when they do not know of each others' existence...
More on President Obama and his cousins and relatives some of which were published before he became president can be seen at:
http://www.familyforest.com/inthene...
and at http://familyforest.wordpress.com