A few years ago National Geographic launched a gene pool study where now anyone can easily trace back their DNA for a small fee. The DNA ancestry kit which was a brainchild of the genographic project launched in 2005, helps reveal how humans populated the earth. Likewise, genealogy experts through research have come up with some fantastic facts about famous personalities and how they are related. It is somewhat amazing to know something you wouldn’t even wonder about in your wildest dreams. Imagine if you too were related to a king, or a dictator wouldn’t that be incredible? Take for example Barack Obama and Dick Cheney, they are actually related because of an eight common cousin in their ancestry.
Similarly, there are many present-day personalities like Tom Hanks and Madonna who are related to the most unlikely people you would never expect. Check out these personalities related to each other which is truly astonishing. These are truly unexpected relationships just like Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Eleanor Roosevelt were cousins as they were husband and wife. So read on
Yes!!! The controversial politician who was the 9th governor of Alaska is actually the 10th cousin of late Lady Diana Spencer. It so happens that they have a common ancestor in an English Colonial Reverend John Lothrop who came to Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1634. In fact, Palin has found out her ancestors came from Norfolk. What’s more!! Palin is also related to Franklin Delano Roosevelt who is her ninth cousin.
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Could this really be possible?? Yes because genealogy is fantastic and you never know whose blood is lurking in your genes. This relationship was discovered by the New England Historic Genealogical Society who found that both these two statesmen are linked through a common relative Samuel Hinkley who lived in Massachusettes Bay Colony and died in 1662. In fact, experts also believe that Obama is related to Bushes, Harry Truman, Lyndon B Johnson, James Madison and Gerald Ford.
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This gets weirder. Tom Hanks must be thrilled to know that he is actually related to Abraham Lincoln through the family of his mother Nancy. Hanks is the third cousin of President Lincoln four times removed.
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Sounds crazy doesn’t it? But both Senator Clinton and the material girl are related through a French Canadian Colonist living in Canada. The link was discovered by genealogist William A Reitwiesner who specializes in the genealogy of Politicians. Reitwiesner also said that Clinton is related to Celine Dion, Angelina Jolie, Alanis Morisette and the Duchess of Cornwall, Camilla Parker Bowles.
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Sophia Loren may not have been happy to hear this but her younger sister Maria Scicolene went ahead and married the son Romano Mussolini, Son of the dictator Mussolini. The couple had a daughter Alessandra Mussolini who presently is a Politician and a good actress.
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When Priscilla Mullens a new colonist in Plymouth Massachusetts lost her entire family, she remarried John Alden. The descendants of both these people link President Adams to Orson Welles.
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Eleanor Roosevelt was a cousin of her husband President Franklin Delano Roosevelt who was a descendant of Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton and one of the founding fathers, Alexander Hamilton.
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Geoffrey Chaucer the most famous author of the 15th century and author of the Canterbury tales is regarded as the father of English Literature. Chaucer’s sister in law, Katherine Swynford had four children from husband John of Gaunt. One of them, Joan went on to become the Countess of Westmoreland and the grandmother of King Edward IV and Richard the III. Incidentally, Sherlock actor Benedict Cumberbatch is the 16th cousin of Richard the III.
Yes bad boy Ozzy Oborne is also related to outlaw Jesse James. This was found out because of a very expensive DNA test done on the singer at a genome lab in New Jersey. It was also found that the singer was distantly related to Russian Tsar Nicholas II, King George I and ancient Romans killed in Pompeii in 79 AD.
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Imagine that Ellen has regal blood. Although it has been found that there are faint connections with these celebrities to King Edward, still Michael Douglas is Queen Elizabeth’s 19th cousin while Duff is her 18th cousin. The Gyllenhalls are related to the king from their father’s side of the family. DeGeneres is a different story; she is the 15th cousin of Kate Middleton, the Duchess of Cambridge. Source All:
It took three eminent personalities to make Lee Marvin who is the fourth cousin of confederate commander Robert. E. Lee. He was also a direct descendant of Thomas Jefferson and related by ancestry to George Washington.
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So did you even expect the king of Rock to be related to the Father of the nation?? According to genealogy studies, Elvis has found to be George Washington’s 9th cousin 6 times removed. Through the same sources it has also been found that Elvis is Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s 10th cousin. Get this Elvis is also related to late Diana Spencer as well as napoleon Bonaparte who is Elvis’s 18th cousin twice removed.
Among personalities related, now isn’t this a bomb?? Yes they are related and here’s how. Markle’s Father is Caucasian while her mother is African-American. Through the world family tree on Genii.com, it actually turned out that Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are 12th cousins once removed.
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