Six Degrees Of Everyone But Kevin Bacon

 Brad Pitt and Hillary Clinton is related to Angelina Jolie,

a genealogical society informed CHINA NEWS March 25th.  

 Researchers at the New England Historic Genealogical Society

have discovered that Jolie and Clinton are ninth cousins, 

twice removed, while Pitt and Obama are ninth cousins,

according to a genealogical study conducted over

the last three years.

Hilary Clinton, who is of French-Canadian descent

on her mother's side, is also related to Madonna,

Celine Dion and Alanis Morissette,

researchers found.

Other cousins include Camilla Parker Bowles

 and Jack Kerouac.  

Obama, the son of a white woman from Kansas

and a black man from Kenya,

shares his ancestry with six U.S. presidents,

including current commander in chief, George W. Bush,

and his father, George H.W. Bush.  

Other far-reaching Obama relations include

Gerald Ford, Lyndon Johnson, Harry S. Truman

and James Madison, as well as Vice President

Dick Cheney and Sir Winston Churchill.  

Republican candidate John McCain's family tree

proved tougher to trace, as records on his relatives

were not as extensive as either Obama or Clinton's,

researchers said.

He is, however, found to be a sixth cousin

to first lady Laura Bush.

Genealogist Christopher Child said that

while the candidates often focus on pointing

out differences between them,

their ancestry shows they are

more alike than they think.

"It shows that lots of different people can be related,

people you wouldn't necessarily expect,"

Child said.

Child has spent the last three years

tracing the candidates' genealogy,

along with senior research scholar Gary Boyd Roberts,

author of the 1989 book,

"Ancestors of American Presidents."

The New England Historic Genealogical Society,

 founded in 1845, is the oldest and largest nonprofit

genealogical organization in the United States.

That is all well and good,

but what famous people am I related to,

and are they leaving me any money

in their will?

And are they telling me that

not one person is related to Kevin Bacon?

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Rash Manly        22moon.com

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