Ancestry/Genealogy

Little Star

(17,055 posts) Wed Dec 12, 2012, 03:33 PM Dec 2012

You Won’t Believe Who Romney’s Related To..

Ancestry.com

How many Commanders-in-Chief can you get in one family tree? When it’s former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney’s family tree, the answer is six.

According to Ancestry.com, the world’s largest online family history resource, Romney’s family tree connects him to Franklin D. Roosevelt, Calvin Coolidge, Franklin Pierce, Herbert Hoover, and both George H.W. and George W. Bush

http://blogs.ancestry.com/cm/2012/10/16/you-wont-believe-who-romneys-related-to/

This piece is from October but I had missed it.

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You Won’t Believe Who Romney’s Related To.. (Original Post) Little Star Dec 2012 OP

so are most of us Viva_La_Revolution Dec 2012 #1

Which is why I am so tickled to be directly descended from both kestrel91316 Jan 2013 #4

Through Katherine Roet/Swynford? WolverineDG Mar 2014 #10

I'd have to look it up. Not sure of the names, but Joan Beaufort rings a bell. kestrel91316 Apr 2014 #11

Joan was the sister of Chaucer's wife, Phillipa WolverineDG Apr 2014 #12

LOL So true. jwirr Mar 2013 #6

THEY CALL IT "IN BREEDING" ROBROX Dec 2012 #2

Did you notice President Franklin D. Roosevelt on that list, and do you whathehell May 2013 #8

Me? csziggy Dec 2012 #3

left one out.. marylovem4 Mar 2013 #5

That's very cute ~ marylovem4 In_The_Wind Mar 2013 #7

Herb Hoover was a cousin of mine.... AverageJoe90 Nov 2013 #9

Viva_La_Revolution

(28,791 posts)

1. so are most of us

Reply to Little Star (Original post)

Wed Dec 12, 2012, 05:45 PM

Dec 2012

if you count 10th cousin twice removed!

If you aren't descended directly from them, or less than 4th cousin it doesn't count, imho.

kestrel91316

(51,666 posts)

4. Which is why I am so tickled to be directly descended from both

Reply to Viva_La_Revolution (Reply #1)

Tue Jan 8, 2013, 02:44 PM

Jan 2013

Geoffrey Chaucer and King Henry VII.

I mean how awesome is that??

WolverineDG

(22,298 posts)

10. Through Katherine Roet/Swynford?

Reply to kestrel91316 (Reply #4)

Sun Mar 30, 2014, 03:33 PM

Mar 2014

Joan Beaufort is one of my many-times great-grandmothers.

kestrel91316

(51,666 posts)

11. I'd have to look it up. Not sure of the names, but Joan Beaufort rings a bell.

Reply to WolverineDG (Reply #10)

Tue Apr 1, 2014, 09:59 PM

Apr 2014

WolverineDG

(22,298 posts)

12. Joan was the sister of Chaucer's wife, Phillipa

Reply to kestrel91316 (Reply #11)

Wed Apr 2, 2014, 06:37 PM

Apr 2014

but no one knows who their mother was.

jwirr

(39,215 posts)

6. LOL So true.

Reply to Viva_La_Revolution (Reply #1)

Fri Mar 8, 2013, 12:48 PM

Mar 2013

ROBROX

(392 posts)

2. THEY CALL IT "IN BREEDING"

Reply to Little Star (Original post)

Wed Dec 12, 2012, 06:55 PM

Dec 2012

This genetic experiment finally goes wrong and the result is a less then desired thing. Who really took the college classes for this guy??? I do not think there is anything SPECIAL about this guy or those listed who did a good job for this country. The people listed are all LOSERS and IN BREEDERS...........

whathehell

(29,815 posts)

8. Did you notice President Franklin D. Roosevelt on that list, and do you

Reply to ROBROX (Reply #2)

Sat May 18, 2013, 04:43 PM

May 2013

really consider him a "loser?

csziggy

(34,189 posts)

3. Me?

Reply to Little Star (Original post)

Thu Dec 13, 2012, 08:30 PM

Dec 2012

Romney and Bush both trace back to Anne Hutchinson, who was thrown out of the Masssachusetts Colony for her religious beliefs. Romney, Bush, and I are related through different children of hers.

As with many other colonial American settlers, Anne Hutchinson has numerous descendants, many of whom have reached great prominence. Three United States Presidents, Franklin D. Roosevelt, George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush, are among her descendants,[142] as are the three United States Presidential aspirants Stephen A. Douglas, George W. Romney, and Willard Mitt Romney.[143] Her grandson, Peleg Sanford, was a colonial governor of Rhode Island.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Hutchinson#Descendants

I descend from Peleg Sanford.

marylovem4

(3 posts)

5. left one out..

Reply to Little Star (Original post)

Fri Mar 8, 2013, 10:27 AM

Mar 2013

Lucifer is he's long lost broda..

In_The_Wind

(72,300 posts)

7. That's very cute ~ marylovem4

Reply to marylovem4 (Reply #5)

Sat Mar 9, 2013, 08:40 AM

Mar 2013

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AverageJoe90

(10,745 posts)

9. Herb Hoover was a cousin of mine....

Reply to Little Star (Original post)

Fri Nov 15, 2013, 08:58 PM

Nov 2013

So I guess Romney's mine, too, even if maybe much farther removed from than Hoover was(Hoover's cousin Ellen married a great-great-great uncle of mine). On the upside, I got FDR now.

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