“In a look at the impressive growth of Ancestry.com, a genealogy Web site that lets users construct family trees and scour digital family history documents that many of its hundreds of employees have scanned — Forbes reporter Rebecca Buckman turns up at least ten bizarre family connections between celebrities and, in some cases, politicians.
Turns out, for example, that W and Dick Cheney are ninth cousins, once removed. Meanwhile, Princess Diana and Sarah Palin share the same ninth great grandfather, Englishman John Strong, born in 1604. Perhaps even more extraordinarily, Palin and Franklin Delano Roosevelt are distant cousins.”
