JGeropoulas
The Living Force
_http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2183858/All-presidents-bar-directly-descended-medieval-English-king.html
In order to create the family tree, 12-year-old BridgeAnne d’Avignon, of Salinas, California spent months scouring through over 500,000 names in search of the ‘presidential Adam.’
Her 80-year-old grandfather, who has been tracing roots for nearly six decades, helped her make the presidential links.
Prior to d’Avignon’s discovery, genealogists were only able to link 22 families of presidents, likely because they only focused on male bloodlines.
D’Avignon started with the first U.S. president, George Washington, she traced both the male and female family lines to discover that all presidents including Obama (but excluding Martin Van Buren) are descendants of King John of England, who signed Magna Carta which limited the monarch’s power and helped form the British Parliament.
In order to create the family tree, 12-year-old BridgeAnne d’Avignon, of Salinas, California spent months scouring through over 500,000 names in search of the ‘presidential Adam.’
Her 80-year-old grandfather, who has been tracing roots for nearly six decades, helped her make the presidential links.
Prior to d’Avignon’s discovery, genealogists were only able to link 22 families of presidents, likely because they only focused on male bloodlines.
D’Avignon started with the first U.S. president, George Washington, she traced both the male and female family lines to discover that all presidents including Obama (but excluding Martin Van Buren) are descendants of King John of England, who signed Magna Carta which limited the monarch’s power and helped form the British Parliament.
