Very cool student geneology project!
All US Presidents except Martin Van Buren are distantly related:
BridgeAnne d'Avignon, who attends Monte Vista Christian School in Watsonville, traced that Obama, and all other U.S. presidents except Martin Van Buren, are related to John "Lackland" Plantagenet, a king of England and signer of the Magna Carta.
The student and her grandfather, who is a genealogist, spent this past summer designing the first known family tree chart in history that shows the presidents' direct relationship. BridgeAnne's grandfather has researched president genealogy for 60 years.
Thank you for the HSA info. This is too confusing, and I probably should go to an info session. And I am about 20 kinds of angry right now between the legal married same sex partner benefits being taxable!!!!! and the OMGWTFBBQ anti obesity craziness in the manual that I just read to try and figure out the HSA.
ETA- How the heck is EVERYONE related except Martin Van Buren of all people! Where did he come from?
What! Wow! That's cool. How weird that Martin Van Buren, of all people, is the excluded one. Obama was clearly BORN to be President!
Now she should see how any of the losing candidates were related to this guy and see if there's some sort of cosmic destiny thing going on.
I can't read the geneology link. For some reason every time I open the page, it scrolls to the bottom and I can't get it back up.
I wonder how many of the population at large are related to this guy? And yeah, where did Martin Van Buren come from?
And yeah, where did Martin Van Buren come from?
He came from Planet Claire.
I wonder how many of the population at large are related to this guy?
I am fairly confident I'm not.
ah, we have several people on one side of my ancestry named after Van Buren. then again, also one in that family named after Wilson.
SOOooooo, just got a call from mac's teacher. He told them he has a younger brother named Kevin and an older brother who graeduated college. Apparently when I get home I pay attention to Kevin instead of him. I guess that makes "kevin" my imac?
I'd be real trouble if my kids ever did something like that. My MacBook Pro is named "Cabana Boy."