It’s A Family Thing: Ancestry.com Finds that Romney and George W. Are Cousins

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An online family-history database has found that the GOP candidate has some very influential Republican relations.

By Elizabeth Dias | @elizabethjdias | December 20, 2011

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Cousin love? The online ancestry site, Ancestry.com, has found that Mitt Romney and George W. Bush are related

Believe it or not, Mitt Romney and George W. Bush are cousins — 10th cousins, twice removed, that is. Historians at Ancestry.com, the world’s largest online family-history resource, have discovered that Romney is actually related to six past presidents — more than any other 2012 GOP contestant. Franklin D. Roosevelt is his eighth cousin, twice removed, and both Calvin Coolidge and Herbert Hoover are his 10th cousins. Then there is his sixth cousin (four times removed) Franklin Pierce, and both 10th cousins Bush I and II. Three out of these six were even (gasp!) Democrats...[Full Article]

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