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A mixed up family tree
I’ve picked up an interest in genealogy over recent years. I’ve been tracking what I find on Geni.com as well as our own family Wiki site.
It’s interesting to track where you’ve come from.
Some interesting folks in our family tree include:
President James Madison, Jr
Wyatt Earp
Gen Edmund P Gaines – Gen. War Of 1812 and man who [...]
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Random news
a. We bought a new truck last night
b. I love it, but I think Laurie may be more excited than I am – I think she may try and sneak off with it one day before work and leave me the Xterra
c. Our Community group is finishing up Colossians this week (hopefully)
d. We’re going to [...]
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Are politicians cut from the same cloth?
From NPR:
Sen. Barack Obama and Vice President Dick Cheney are distant cousins. President Bush and Sen. John Kerry have dozens of shared relatives. Megan Smolenyak, chief family historian at ancestry.com, talks to Alex Cohen about tracing back the family tree.
Looks like Walt Disney is also George Bush’s 13th cousin, once removed… interesting.
Better get back to [...]
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Cheney ‘the black sheep of family’
From the AP/NPR:
Though they may spar across the political aisle, Vice President Dick Cheney is close enough to Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama to call him “cousin.” Eighth cousin, that is.
Lynne Cheney, the vice president’s wife, revealed this tantalizing bit of political trivia during a television interview Tuesday.
Apparently Cheney’s wife discovered the link while researching [...]
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