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[~Elizabeth~]

Apparently we are the only ones who care about lineage.

I'm sorry I didn't notice your post from the 15th until now. You're right. We seem to be the only ones that care about lineage.

[Etelfrido]

All of these are from my father's side.

My Mom has an account there too with more historical relatives.

I don't know how to merge our trees.

I've always felt an affinity with you, now I know why.

[~Elizabeth~]

I went back to familysearch to see how I am related to the US Presidents and how many of them. I'm distantly related to 31 US Presidents including John F. Kennedy. JFK is my 12th Cousin Once Removed. I discovered that, according to FamilySearch, I have Irish ancestors too. My common ancestors with JFK were from 1500's Ireland. I am also a 12th Cousin Once Removed to his wife, Jacqueline Lee Kennedy Onassis. I thought she was all French but she wasn't - she was part English. Our common ancestors were English.



My most recent Irish ancestor was Joanna O'Carroll.

Brief Life History of Joanna O’Carroll
When Joanna O’Carroll was born in 1675, in Tipperary, County Tipperary, Ireland, her father, Daniel Anthony O’Carroll, was 18 and her mother, Elizabeth 'Purdy" O'Brien, was 15. She married Joshua Howard in 1695, in Baltimore, Baltimore, Maryland, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 4 daughters. She died on 12 August 1763, in Baltimore, Baltimore, Maryland, British Colonial America, at the age of 88, and was buried in Howard Graveyard At Grayrock, Pikesville, Baltimore, Maryland, United States.

[Etelfrido]

Getúlio Vargas is my 9th cousing twice removed.

[~Elizabeth~]

Getúlio Vargas is my 9th cousing twice removed.

I'm sorry I didn't know who he was. I googled him.

Getúlio Dornelles Vargas was a Brazilian military officer, lawyer, and politician who served as the 14th and 17th president of Brazil, from 1930 to 1945 and from 1951 until his suicide in 1954.

I have a half uncle who committed suicide on my father's side and one of my maternal grandmother's sisters committed suicide.

[~Elizabeth~]

I went back to FamilySearch.org and made lists of the deceased US Presidents I'm related to. The total is 32 not 31.


I am related to 32 deceased US Presidents according to FamilySearch.org.

2 on my maternal grandfather's side.
29 on my maternal grandmother's side.
0 on my paternal grandfather's side.
7 on my paternal grandmother's side.


My maternal and paternal grandmothers have 6 US Presidents in common.


I am related TWICE to the following 6 US Presidents:

Richard Nixon
Theodore Roosevelt
Ulysses S. Grant
William Henry Harrison
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Lyndon B. Johnson

[Mortimer]

How can i get this i dont have this

[~Elizabeth~]

How can i get this i dont have this

If you go to familysearch.org and sign up, you can enter your family tree. They compare your tree to the trees of famous people in the activities section where there is a drop-down box that says "famous relatives". You might not match anyone if your tree isn't extensive. Many people built on parts of my family tree already. I have American lines going back into the colonial days in the 1600s.

[Nisko]

Wikitree has a similar feature, in case anyone here is interested.

My closest presidential connections according to wikitree would be Harry Truman and Herbert Hoover, so by their account if I ever get elected president it'll be a bad omen for all of us

FamilySearch gives me a different list, though. I take all of this with a grain of salt given the scarcity of surviving records from the lifetimes of many of these more distant ancestors as well as the lack of oversight on these public trees. I also have an ancestor where I'm pretty sure distant relatives have fabricated a more illustrious background for them with flimsy evidence purely for bragging rights.