Study Shows Obama cousin of Brad Pitt, Clinton related to Jolie

[Jacpher]

The Huffington Post

 

Barack Obama and Brad Pitt Are Cousins, Hillary Clinton and Angelina Jolie Are Also Cousins, Study Says

 

BOSTON — This could make for one odd family reunion: Barack Obama is a distant cousin of actor Brad Pitt, and Hillary Rodham Clinton is related to Pitt's girlfriend, Angelina Jolie.

 

Researchers at the New England Historic Genealogical Society found some remarkable family connections for the three presidential candidates _ Democratic rivals Obama and Clinton, and Republican John McCain.

 

Clinton, who is of French-Canadian descent on her mother's side, is also a distant cousin of singers Madonna, Celine Dion and Alanis Morissette. Obama, the son of a white woman from Kansas and a black man from Kenya, can call six U.S. presidents, including George W. Bush, his cousins. McCain is a sixth cousin of first lady Laura Bush.

 

"You'd think with all that singing talent in the family she'd be able to carry a tune," Clinton's senior adviser Philippe Reines said. "But now it makes much more sense how she snagged a Grammy."

 

Clinton won for best spoken word Grammy in 1997 for "It Takes a Village." Obama also won a Grammy in that category this year for the audio version of his book, "The Audacity Of Hope: Thoughts On Reclaiming The American Dream."

 

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.

 

Obama has a prolific presidential lineage that features Democrats and Republicans. His distant cousins include President George W. Bush and his father, George H.W. Bush, Gerald Ford, Lyndon Johnson, Harry S. Truman and James Madison. Other Obama cousins include Vice President Dick Cheney, British Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill and Civil War General Robert E. Lee.

 

Obama often jokes about his cousin Cheney at campaign appearances.

 

"His kinships are across the political spectrum," 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."

 

Clinton's distant cousins include beatnik author Jack Kerouac and Camilla Parker-Bowles, wife of Prince Charles of England.

 

McCain's ancestry was more difficult to trace because records on his relatives were not as complete as records for the families of Obama and Clinton, Child said.

 

Obama and President Bush are 10th cousins, once removed, linked by Samuel Hinkley of Cape Cod, who died in 1662.

 

Pitt and Obama are ninth cousins, linked by Edwin Hickman, who died in Virginia in 1769. Ben LaBolt, a spokesman for the Obama campaign, declined to comment on the senator's ancestry.

 

Clinton and Jolie are ninth cousins, twice removed, both related to Jean Cusson who died in St. Sulpice, Quebec, in 1718.

 

The New England Historic Genealogical Society, founded in 1845, is the oldest and largest nonprofit genealogical organization in the country.

[Faynuus]

What is the use? ar gaal muxuu abalaayo dabo ordaa.

[Geel_jire]

^ their looking for cousins and relatives .......... they have no idea what havoc qabil can cause ....... actually i do wish 'Qabyaalad' on them they would have less time to interfere with others.

 

imagine Americans oo qabil qabil isku haysta the whole place would grind to a halt

[Che -Guevara]

I wonder who would be related to who if genealogical studies were done on SOL members. I get the feeling there will be a lot of distance cousins since Somalis intermarry extensively. Maybe Lazy and Serenity could be related or Marc and Underdog.

 

P.S. Duke would be related to nobody!, on the second thought, he might be related to JB.

[Faynuus]

lool@che. That would be an intresting result.

[Che -Guevara]

^Yup,

 

Even more interesting would be if genetic genealogy of Somalis were done in order to trace back their ancestry.

[Kool_Kat]

Che, toloow who would you be related to, me wonder? Hmmmmmm...

 

Dadka qaarkood hadaan maqlilahaa inaa related nahay, dhiigandhan baanan iska miiri lahaa aan u maleynaa...No way, no how!!!

 

But then again the chances of Marc and Underdog being related hadeyba dhicikarto, never say never waaye hee...

[Che -Guevara]

^I found out you are related to Didi Kong

 

I'm not related to anyone in here.

[Zafir]

^That is a belligerent lie and you know it.

[Che -Guevara]

^Which is, KK being related to Didi?

[Zafir]

No! You and I and Cara and Duke being related Che. What is the matter with you.

[Jacpher]

No, No, No, No Way. You're distance cousin of Nephy and Che is related to Naxar.

[Kool_Kat]

JImcaale iyo Zafir rabshada joojiya...

 

Originally posted by Che -Guevara:

^I found out you are related to Didi Kong

 

I'm not related to anyone in here.

Ee taas waa laguu ogyahay...

 

As for you being related to anyone in here, well xanbaa dad aan halkan magacyadooda ka sheegi karin igu soo gaartay inaa isku dhiigtihiin - ilmo adeer waa intii is taqaan...

 

Haye ayeeyo, soo iima fiicnid?

[Baashi]

The things that pass as news nowadays. No wonder voter ignarance is as high as they say it is. Corporate media is killing this democracy big time.

[Che -Guevara]

Originally posted by Zafir:

No! You and I and Cara and Duke being related Che. What is the matter with you.

Do you really to wanna tell everyone that our moms are of Tigray extraction. That's not popular thing these days.

 

LooooooooL@Naxar...I and Naxar are at diffirent poles. We couldn't be farther Jimcaale.

 

KK....Waa faayaa Ayeeyo. Adigu say ii tahay.

 

Cid aan isku dhiig nahay ma jidho other than you...Well you are more like my honory Ayeeyo