Are all the US Presidents related?
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Geneavlogger: Why All The Presidents Are Related... And You Are Too:
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something you missed.26 out of the 46 presidents
Looks like the dates on Obama are wrong - I think it's got Bush's dates instead?
Guess there was never a chance for me to be PRESIDENT due to the fact my desendants didn't ride the MAYFLOWER and I'm a jewish woman. all presidents are christian males
I noticed a lot of the earlier presidents were more closely related by blood, I imagine this stems from 2 things 1) the gene pool of Americans at large was more restricted to descendants of certain people as there had been fewer waves of migration & 2) the gene pool of people eligible to vote and hold office was restricted to a landholding upper class which tended to hang out and marry within itself
This is so true.
A lot of people don't realize that the Slave-owning class of the United States was one of the most influential and richest groups of people on the planet at the time. They held more wealth and had more income than European land-owning aristocrats of the same time period. It's a wonder this country got the courage to rid themselves of such a barbaric and powerful class of people.
It is probably both though i think the first led to the second since the gene pool would have been restricted by alot especially in the early days and over the years these people would become the land holding upper class
P.S.I am no expert in these kinda stuff, it was just guess
@@ThePurpleclone it was at the point when direct chattel slavery was no longer as necessary, especially to the industrialized North. I doubt "courage" had much to do with it. We're just more likely to despise an evil if we didn't grow up experiencing and normalizing it. Slavery still exists in many forms in many places, you get stuff like chocolates, fruits, batteries etc by extensive use of slave labor. Not to mention the horrible wartorn countries left behind prime for sex trafficking etc.
@@ThePurpleclone It didn't get rid of such a barbaric and powerful class of people, that class just moved on to different ways to maintaining themselves as powerful through new ways of exploiting their countrymates (and foreigners).
It’s ironic that Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis were both related through the Taylor Family. It really was a Civil War between brothers.
You mean distant cousin in law
I always thought they looked similar.
@@relicman Right? if he grew a beard I bet the similarity would be uncanny
Political differences are notorious to spark some nasty fights during family gatherings, so it's not too surprising.
All I know is that someone probably didn't get invited to the family reunion.
Deciding to go on the Mayflower really was like the ultimate risk-reward decision. Either you become the progenitor of one of the most influential bloodlines the world has ever seen for generations to come, or you froze/starved to death thousands of miles from home in some cabin.
The trick was to last long enough so that, if you did die in your cabin, it *was* home
@@chairmanofthebored8684 Yes, the mayflower was a voyage of employees and volunteers, it wasn't like Georgia or Australia
The mayflower bloodline is extremely vast. The reason there are so many influential people from it is because of the odds that anyone in America is a direct descendant is like 1 in 5 (even higher in the 1700s and 1800s). It’s not like it’s an exclusive club. We all have 32,768 great great great great great great great great great great great great great grandparents each and those 16,384 couples (especially if they were from the mayflower) had tens of children each. And those tens of children had many children too. We are all the same bloodline my friend.
Also the chances that at least one of those 32,768 was on the mayflower is ridiculously high if you are American.
I'm one of those random. I'm African American and 2nd Cousin 5x's removed of Ulysses S. Grant. My 8th Great-grandmother was Hannah Simpson.
You gave the best description and visual of the difference between first cousins, and first cousins once removed, that I’ve ever heard. Thank you!
Now I really want you to make this again with 5 random americans from the country and then find those kinds of close connections to a president.
I already know my closest relation to a president by blood. For me it's FDR
5 random Americans might be a little harder to track down their genealogies due to things like family status, wealth, ethnicity, etc. For most if not all of the presidents they come from fairly wealthy/affluent upper middle class-->upper class families, who probably happen to care a little more about things like pedigree than the average American.
@@tempest2000 I was about to say that some of the lines are wrong especially as you go further up the tree. Lots of people want to connect to royalty or some important figure so they shortcut the research and hence mistakes are made.
I guess what im saying to people that use relative finder is just take the information with a grain of salt unless you have actually verified it.
I’m a random American, my closest president relative is Herbert Hoover.
I'm a direct descendant of Abe Lincoln's uncle lol
This is one of the best charts that you've ever made. I guess no one is surprised at my bias. 😀
lol
Of course not. You are related to presidents
Lulu punga
You’re such a monarchist though
Yeah agree
Thank you for covering this chart. My husband is related to Ulysses Grant (his 6th cousin, 6x removed). It was neat to see he is related to other presidents (very distantly).
Amazing research. A gold star for the charting, that had to be exhausting keeping track of it all!
Imagine being a Mayflower passenger in 1620 not knowing that there will be at least 9 future president of their descendants.
They wouldn't even know what the word president means
@@jackguest145 What's stopping anyone from explaining the word to them?
@@engineergaming4201 they had bigger fish to fry & natives to slaughter
imagine being some peasant in medieval Europe and knowing your descendant will land on the moon
they were more worried about how many were going to survive and the spat between two of their captains John Alden and Miles Spandish over the only single woman in the colony.
My husband and I are hilariously unrelated.
His paternal geneology was published by a family biographer, so we have that back to like 400AD. His maternal family is Cuban, so we know that line back to the 16th century.
My mom converted to LDS and did a massive geneology map for her family and my dad's family was in every major American war since they got here. Us meeting was the first time our families had ever contacted each other.
very intersting
now that's expanding the gene pool. Good for you both
Dang that's long.
By any chance is your dad's line related to Leutenant Dan?
Means that they are related to at least 10 million people. :-)
Wow, that's incredible! I can't imagine the work that had to go into all this!
I grew up with my Grandma (Mother's mother) telling me I was a 14th cousin of Abraham Lincoln. I am actually 3rd cousin 6X removed. Now that I have done quite a lot of work on my chart, I found out that yes, I was related on my Mother's side through the Hanks, but also related on my father's side to his Father. Phillippe DeLaNoye was the father-in-law of my first cousin Mercy Warren (mother was a Walker) again on my Father's side of the family. Franklin Roosevelt was my 7th cousin. Teddy Roosevelt is in my tree as the Uncle of the wife of Franklin as you pointed out as that is a closer relation than tracing back to Phillipe. Which makes Ulysses S Grant my fifth cousin (tracing back to Cousin Mercy and Lieut. Jonathan Delano again). I didn't realize that Lieut. Jonathan's brother Thomas would lead me to Calvin Coolidge. I also have Richard Nixon as a 9th cousin on my Father's side of the family connected to his Mother's side of the family. John Howland was my 10th great Uncle, but I never realized that would lead to being cousins with the Bush's. You've given me lot's more to research in my tree.
And are you out of the loop knowing that you are related? Not part of any secret society?
Abraham Lincoln is my 6th cousin, 7 times removed on my maternal side. We even have old letters from him to another family member that have been passed down.
Also related to Grant...5th cousin or nephew...my Aunt and Father would tell us as we were kids .. unfortunately neither are here and or able to explain it further as we got older and wanting to understand the family tree
So will you be the next president ? 🤔
I’m all royal blood not presidential
Thank you for including the whole 1st, 2nd, removed explanation. I've heard it verbally explained before. But seeing the chart explanation finally drove it home for me.
yeah, dont ask me to remember it though !
Cpg grey has a test video on it too
It helped but I need to find one to explain how my great aunts kids are related. Are they cousins or second cousins or first cousins once removed lol
@@ryanjohnson8528 I think Ancestry has an idiot guide -either on line or on one of the YT explainer channels
@@ryanjohnson8528 it depends on where your common ancestor falls.
I was just googling about this yesterday, looking for someone who had made this exact chart! Crazy!
Phone is listening
Same company. The algorithms track you arcross platforms so they suggest things you may be interested in.
@@rampartnation I think it's more likely they're commenting on the fact they were looking for something like this yesterday and then today this video was released.
@@myrddinemrys1332 I see! Then yes that is crazy.
@@myrddinemrys1332 that's what I thought. But that happens too often! With youtubers I know! I remember I was playing off brand raft, and then a few days later raft gets updated and markiplier plays it.
I’m absolutely fascinated by all of the genealogy stuff! So you and I are related, found it from another video you shared showing your grandfather and we are related through your grandmother! So it shows we are 11th cousins once removed!
All related and bought by the Roths childs and blackmaild by gates, epsteen allegedly reeeeeeeeeee
Thank you for this nuanced take!
I’m a descendent of John Howland so I found this fascinating, there are so many people that I’m related to just from him. Fun fact: Howland was thrown off the mayflower during a storm and nearly died. The Roosevelt’s I believe were also his descendants, there doesn’t appear to be be any connection on this chart
He’s a great grandfather of mine too! Like 15th or 16th, I forget.
@@samanthabotelho7164 I am also a descendent of Howland, so, hi cuz! 😜.
If Howland had died on the Mayflower voyage then we wouldn't have had the Bushes or Nixon which would have solved a lot of our current troubles in America (and I'm no Democrat either). But then I wouldn't have been born either. While JFK wasn't a saint Sr. Bush was most likely involved with the assassination and Nixon was a stooge for those cronies and Jr. Bush made up 9/11 to get rid of our puppet Hussein because he threated to kill his daddy. Makes me realize we really need to pray for our descendants.
@@WillieStubbs you believe everything you hear on tv don’t you
@@jimmy2055 I haven't seen any of that on t.v. The MSM is full of crap.
I've seen an early 1950s interview with Prescott Bush (HW's dad). They kind of looked similar, but their voices couldn't have been more different. While HW had that soft-spoken "Mr Rogers" type voice, his dad Prescott had a very stern and authoritative voice. HW probably inherited his voice from his mother, Dorothy Walker (who died immediately after her son lost re-election to Bill Clinton in 1992)
That is fascinating stuff
And then there's Dubya with his Texan twang
@@jakubpociecha8819 Dubya was born in Connecticut, HW in Massachusettes, Prescott in Ohio. His father, Samuel Bush was born in NJ. His father, James Smith Bush, was born in Upstate NY. As was his father, Obadiah. You have to go SIX generations to find a consequtive father-son pair born in the same state.
@@iammrbeat There's also an urban legend that Barbara's father was not Marvin Pierce, but actually Aleister Crowley. Again, urban legend, but some people believe it.
@@hozonkai9967 And then Dubya moved to Texas while Jeb moved to Florida
Thank you for this. It is helping me with my family tree soooo much.
Fascinating! Nice upload
That depends upon how extended you define "related".
I love the fact you stated that we are "all related" which is a good reminder to us all, but also defeats some people's pretensions!
IF I ignore some marriages most of my ancestry goes around in circles in Ireland in C16th
I mean, they're all living organisms, so clearly they had a common ancestor... lol
It does not these people are obviously in cahoots with each other , marrying each other etc, the fact that e.g I too may be related to them (at 10 times the distance) is irrelevant and serves only as a decoy argument
@@billkillernic Indeed the worst thing in life is Family you cannot chose it in the same way you can choose your friends
@@highpath4776 That's for poor families, if you are born into a wealthy and well conected family that has power then even if you dont like individuals of said family its the best thing happening to you ever which also will make you strong and influential friends that actually want to be your friends and you dont have to convince them
Also worth noting, Nixon served as Eisenhower’s VP.
Yep. So it's not surprising that the Nixon and Eisenhower families got really close hence the marriage.
It's not every day that one of your kids marries one of your old boss's grandchildren.
@@TJCKWC true
@@TJCKWC It truly was though 80 years ago
4:54 you read my mind. I was about to go find another video to refresh my memory on this
Thank you for explaining the terms of 1, 2, 3 removed. First time I have had it explained.
You earned that thumbs up for finally and concisely explaining the “first cousin once removed” thing. I never understood it until now!
Matt, would you consider making a video or series on founding fathers that were not US Presidents. It’s very fascinating to see who are related to whom. For example Benjamin Franklin, The Penn Family, players in the Revolutionary War and Civil War, etc. Thank you for the consideration.
This is such a cool chart. You should really make a part 2 with all the presidents you missed.
Very interesting chart. It's fortunate but not too surprising how such good records exist for the US presidents. In Ireland it's very hard to trace back over the 150 year mark.
I think that’s cause the Irish famine displaced so many people and had a catastrophic impact on Irish society as a whole.
@@rouskeycarpel1436 yeah that certainly played a big part. Unfortunately some old census records were destroyed in our civil war after breaking apart from the UK as well.
It's also because the canny Irish didn't want the British authorities to know how many children they had. Many infants never received birth certificates. Instead they received baptismal certificates. Often on the sly. Tracing Irish families is often best done via parish churches. Those who descend from the Northern Ireland counties may have more difficulty. "The Troubles," led to the division of Ireland into two parts: the six counties of Northern Ireland, which became part of Great Britain and Protestant, and the 26 counties of southern Ireland, which remained Roman Catholic. Many of the Roman Catholic records were destroyed in Northern Ireland. Some in southern Ireland as well.
I hope this chart becomes a purchasable item. It was truly enlightening!
Thank you..many of my Ancestors are on here!!! 😊
I’ve seen a lot more relations between presidents. It could be cool to see more of these kinds of videos.
Just proves that voting doesn't matter and that they choose who get in office years in advance
As someone who has done some of this kind of research I want to say that this chart is absolutely genius in its simplicity!
Nice work, Matt. This topic has been covered in print for several years. The best book on the subject is "Ancestors of American Presidents" by Gary Boyd Roberts and published in Boston by the New England Historic Genealogical Society (I own the 2009 edition),
I would really like to see a version of this with every president
Cool video, very interesting, thanks.
First Lady Barbara Bush was 4th cousin, 4 times removed, of President Franklin Pierce, which means he and George W. have a common ancestor. Also, I think a chart like this of the "First Families of Virginia" would be interesting.
Your videos are so well scripted and amazing. You keep blowing my mind with every upload.
5:30 I've seen a website that has the same exact design but the way you described "once removed" made it more comprehensive.
Absolutely fascinating!👏👏👏👏
For somebody who is Canadian, I appreciate all the time you put into American history, Matt.
This theme works well for Family Day in Canada as well....
Would you consider doing a chart about how Canadian Prime Ministers are related? There aren’t as many but I assume that there must be some close relations (other than the Trudeaus) or relatives by marriage. Also I am sure a lot of Prime Ministers are somewhat closely related to US Presidents.
There's a post on the usefulcharts subreddit from somebody that made a chart like this showing how dozens and dozens of famous French Canadians are descended from the Cloutier family, including almost every Quebec Premier and a handful of prime ministers. Plus singers, athletes, actors, etc.
Trudeau Jr might have been related to someone in Cuba 😅
@@arablumenfeld2994 quite a strong "might" as well lol
@@arablumenfeld2994 While I do see the resemblance, this theory has been heavily debunked since the Trudeaus didn't meet Castro until 1976 while Trudeau was born in 1971. It seems near impossible that Margret Trudeau snuck away during her honeymoon to go to Cuba to sleep with Castro, a man she had never met before.
I've seen a chart showing the relationship between the Trudeaus and Sir Wilfrid Laurier.
The number of early settlers in Québec is so small that nearly all Québecois are demonstrably related. The records were carefully complied in the classic book by Cyprien Tanguay and extended by a national project of the Québecois government at the University of Montréal, which has identified nearly all of the members of the Québecois nation born before 1850 and their relationships.
DUDE, you made this video because of ME hahahahah! I linked this to you a few years back. I am so happy you looked into this. I still believe there is some sketchy crap happening with secret societies. I am a huge fan of truth regardless of results. I am so thankful you broke this down. Doesnt this still seem like a small group of people to you? We are talking about WORLD leaders here.
4:52 Thank you so much for taking your time to explain this, as a non native speaker this has always confused me
I think I’ve learned more about US history from this video than all my years in school.
When you learn more us history 12 minutes then you have in multiple years of school
Maybe you should have paid more attention in school
They don’t teach us that in school they teach fake history
I find it difficult to believe that the interconnection between the presidents is just the same as if you selected a bunch of completely random US citizens. This claim made at the beginning that this is the case was not explained. These are all rich and powerful families in that country, and it makes sense that they marry within their class/caste, and are given extraordinary opportunities.
I agree. This seems like more of a subjective focus based on the author’s worldview. If this young girl could so easily link all the most powerful men in US government throughout recent history to similarly a powerful British man from farther back in history, then I seriously doubt the average person would have similar family links. Especially considering the tendency of the wealthy and powerful to continually marry within their social caste.
I am related to 4 of the presidents through the Alden Family and the Robert/Richard Treat Family. I am just an ordinary citizen, but the families have been here forever. John Alden was an ordinary citizen, too. He was on the Mayflower as crew, a barrel maker.
@@dmbalsam The majority of European immigrants didn’t come over on the Mayflower though. The Mayflower also doesn’t account for my family the indigenous peoples who were already here and subsequently victimized by the aforementioned colonialism, not to mention the millions of black slaves who were kidnapped from Africa, the massive number Latin American immigrants, an increasing number of Asian immigrants, and God only knows how many random refugees. No, I seriously doubt a cross-section of the average American citizen will yield family ties to British royalty.
@@hazelgoodshepherd9315 Indigenous? Your ancestors sailed on Viking ships no matter who they were. Most against their will.
@@michaelvehrs1872 True. But my point is one cannot use the Mayflower theory as an argument that the average American can be traced to kings or queens in England. Because the average American’s ancestors were not even linked to that immigrant voyage.
Absolutely fascinating.
Awesome video. My kids' maternal grandmother was adopted and I traced her biological family line to Issac Allerton. Pretty cool to see how they are directly related to FDR and Zachary Taylor through Issac.
Perfect timing. I was just looking into this and my genealogy.
I’m a direct descendant of a Mayflower passenger as well, so I guess that makes me related to all of the Presidents.
I’m calling in favors.
Does this means you're destined to be president? All hail pres. Bates! 🇺🇸
@@IRosamelia I don’t have the temperament 😂. I’m Dumbledore…prepared to help others but NOT to take power.
That means you have English ancestry :)
So cool and informative!
Very enjoyable video!
So it was actually proven that Martin Van Buren *actually is* a descendant of King John, King John was his 17th great grandfather to be exact. If I post the link my comment will obviously be deleted, but for anyone who cares:
Martin Van Buren, his father
→ Maria van Buren
his mother → Johannes Dircksen Hoes
her father → Elizabeth Wyngaart
his mother → Anna Janse Van Hoesen
her mother → Father Jan Fransse Gerridt Fransse van Visbeck van Hoesen, 1
her father → Father Frans van Hoesen
his father → Marguerite de Croÿ, Dame d'Halewyn et de Commines
his mother → Philippe III de Croÿ, duc d'Aerschot
her father → Anne de Croÿ
his mother → Louise d'Albret
her mother → Alain de Grand d'Albret, Comte de Gavre
her father → Jeanne Catherine de Rohan
his mother → Marguerite de Montfort, dame de Guillac
her mother → Jean V de Montfort, duc de Bretagne
her father → Jean IV de Montfort, duc de Bretagne
his father → Arthur II de Dreux, duc de Bretagne
his father → Beatrice of England
his mother → Henry III, king of England
her father → John I "Lackland", King of England
his father
Thanks for sharing this!
@@iammrbeat @Augustus Caesar Unfortunately this is untrue. The connection to the de Croy family is speculative and unproven. Please see the scholarship by Gary Boyd Roberts, author of several editions of “Ancestors of the U.S. Presidents.”
Sorry, “Ancestors of the American Presidents”
@@wesslingbaker Yeah... unfortunately, all genealogy is speculative and unproven so your eager attempt to dunk on an American (as evident by your "Sorry 'Ancestors of the American Presidents'" comment) was done with an asinine point. It's for that very reason that genealogist were surprised when they found the body of Richard III and looked at his YDNA.
But hey, if knowing that little bit of asinine information helps get you to bed at night, more power to you. I can't fault a man for that.
@@iammrbeat No problem. I too, like you, hold a passion for sharing knowledge.
Fun fact: John Scott Harrison (son of William and father of Benjamin) was dug up by grave robbers and brought to a medical school for study. Benjamin was not happy when he found out what had happened to his old man's body
Benjamin was great grandson to William
reminds me of the plot of the cartoon sitcom Li'l Bush
@@SanskarWagley Nope. Grandson
interesting how you go from founding father to president to grave robbery victim to president lmao
"fun" fact
I’ve read that any two random people of European descent are, on average, about 15th cousins. I’m sure this is true with other races/ethnicities as well. When you all descend from the same relatively small group of people, you’re gonna be related.
Awesome video, we're distantly related to Lady Bird Johnson on her mother's side. Had no idea of her connection to the other presidents!
I am actually related to Ulysses S. Grant through the Grant side. The Minor family married into the Grant family way back in the Massachusetts Bay Colony era, and I am related to the Minor side. John D. Rockefeller is also related to Grant through this family as well, and so are a ton of other people, including the Baldwins and Mickey Rourke. Our mutual ancestor Thomas Minor kept a diary that survived and is now a published book, and there is a Thomas Minor Society for his descendants with over 800 members.
My daughter in law is also related to George Washington (4th cousin 8 times removed) through the Pope family and is a direct descendant of King John. Interesting stuff.
I'm reading Chernow's Grant biography right now. I'm almost done, it's taken forever for me to read this book.
I am also related to Ulysses S. Grant!
@@puglovefilms702 Awesome! Which side?
@@puglovefilms702 that's awesome. He is such an underrated president
As a history student, I absolutely love your videos! In light of the new Downton Abbey film coming soon, could we please have a look at the Crawley family tree explained? The Earls of Grantham. Thanks!
That would be fun! Especially since it's a bit hard to follow why Matthew is the heir if you aren't super familiar with how that stuff worked.
I love genealogical connections like this.. and you can't go out looking for it.. finding these connections requires researching every person on multiple trees.. in my own research I discovered that my first husband ( maine native) was related to my second husband's ( Iowa native) first wife ( Minnesota native) through a very early Quebec settler.
Really interesting video!
One of John Tyler's grandsons in still alive!
my favourite thing about how related we really can be is actually personal. i'm afrikaans, with all of my ancestors aside from my grandfather being in south africa since the early 19th century or earlier, most from much earlier. a close friend of mine is american with mostly blackfoot indigenous and african-american ancestry, with most of their european ancestry being finnish. we have a common ancestor in 14th century scotland. we found this out because they were joking about some very funny old danish names much further back in the family tree (9th century?? old enough where whether that person even existed or is entirely legendary is debated) and i recognised it, so we compared how close our trees are until they diverged
I'm Chinese and if you look at our language, it tells the story of Genesis to a T. For example the word for greedy is the word made up of two trees with a women under it symbolizing the tree of life and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.
@@krayziejerry what relevance does that have to anything at all💀
@@JubioHDX He is showing how stories are connected between cultures.
That's actually interesting! As someone from Finland I always thought we wouldn't have much connections to elsewhere. May I ask what was the connection in your friends family between Finland and Scotland?
@@Rakettivuori i'm not very familiar with their family tree, but I believe on the European side of their ancestry, it was in either Canada or the US where the Finnish and Scottish couple met and married. if I remember correctly, Canada used to (may still?) have a much more insular ethnic identities within the settler populations, at least I know the Icelandic and Finnish settlers of Canada were still speaking their native languages several generations out of Europe, and I'm assuming that part of the family was in Canada since I know their most recent Scottish ancestor was a second-generation Canadian, and at least one grandparent still spoke Finnish, but I don't know when their Finnish ancestors migrated to North America, earliest being great-grandparents.
Just the fact you made this video. Tells me
Best explanation of the “removed” term ever.
Would be really interested to see this with Canadian PMs!
Could be difficult to find how the Francophone and Anglophone PMs are related to each other.
And Ukrainian presidents
@@Gena_Tsidrusni Malaysian PMs. Since they all are extremely related to each other except for Tun Mahathir, Tun Abdullah Badawi and Tunku Abdul Rahman. Najib for example is the cousin of Hishamuddin Tun Hussein, Najib himself is the son of Tun Abdul Razak.
Pierre Trudeau is Justin’s dad.
Castro
Would have been interesting to see how, if at all, some of the other famous presidents fit in, like Trump and Clinton
Check out Mr. Beat’s counterpart video
Hillary and Donald are related
Garfield and McKinley on the Taylor family
Kennedy on the Roosevelt family
Hayes on the Taylor family
Cleveland on the Roosevelt family
Oh Trump and Clinton on the Eisenhower family
Trump is supposedly a direct defendant of king Edward III
Thx for this graph. I’ve been working on my family tree since i was bored and this has help a lot.
Just discovered this video. Very interesting. My dad's step-father (who was born in 1899) was from one of the Knickerbocker families. A cousin to both Teddy Roosevelt and Martin Van Buren. There is a saying that all of the Knickerbocker families knew each other. Pretty much. (And, yes, TR was a pretty cool guy, IMO.)
From the missed being a cousin by a tad department: I'm related to FDR through the Delano family.
Fun fact: if you want to know how to calculate the cousins/removed two people are, you only need to follow three steps: 1) identify the common ancestor, 2) count the times each individual uses the word "grand" or "great" to describe the person, 3) the lower number is the "cousin" and the difference is the number of steps removed. So if my grandfather is your great-great-grandfather, we are 1st cousins (I say it once) twice removed (3-1).
Loved the video! I always thought that original genealogical claim of the Presidents was a bit off.
Sidenote: I just noticed a typo on George Washington's block: 1st was mistyped as "1sr"
I hear about all the Hollywood actress and actors are related...you should make a video about them
This is amazing.
Great content. There seems to be a small mistake in Teddy Roosevelts years 1901-1919. His presidency ended already in 1909. 1919 is his year of death.
I've discovered that Abraham Lincoln is my 5th cousin five times removed. The clue I followed is that we both have ancestors who landed in Hingham, Plymouth Colony from Hingham, England about two years apart (my ancestor was John Farrow/Farrar). I'm also related to all the Benedict Arnolds with the common ancestor being William (also landed at Hingham, but not from Hingham), the father of the first Benedict. I'm related through a line through my great grandmother who was a Crockett. Funny thing is I was trying to find a connection with Davy Crocket, but my Crocketts had already been in Maine (Massachusetts Bay Colony) for about fifty years before David Crockett's ancestor moved from France to Ireland and changed his name to Crockett (originally de Crocketagne). But I am related to Captain Nathan Hale (who was hanged as a spy by Rogerr's Queen's Rangers - my 4th great grandfather Dr. Azor Betts was Surgeon in the unit and emigrated to New Brunswick after the war so my 3rd great grandmother was from the Canadas) through my 4th great grandmother Ednah Hale (but through her mother's side). I've also discovered that I'm more closely related to Haskell's in another line through matrilineal connections (the Haskells landed in Salem/Beverly in 1635 - the South Carolina Haskells descended from Roger and his brother William is my ancestor).
That’s really cool.
Nice,.
Me too....my 10 grandfather and he's was 5th grandfather was the same....shocked me....... I am relative too many presidents.....wow.
That's cool. My ancestor was the first settler of Norton, Massachusetts. His brother cofounded Watertown, Massachusetts. He landed in Cambridge, Massachusetts before settling Norton.
I kinda done the same thing except it was a bit harder since I aint American, so lincoln is my 6th cousin 6x removed of wife of 1st cousin 2x removed
I think a cool idea would be to see if all of the Declaration of Independence signers are all related.
I’ve found 28 of the 56 signers in my family tree. Agree it would be an interesting project.
There is a site called Famous Kin. You can spend hours tracing this and similiar connections for writers, artist,scientist, actor, etc. My conclusion from spending time on that site is that our entire world is centered on the B actress Tuesday Welds.
Also important to understand, that these "close relations" are some "going six generations back", not sharing a common ancestor, who was still alive or even personally known to anybody alive at the time of their birth.
That still shows that the US political system made it si that mainly wealthy individuals and from European descent could become presidents
And many still think our vote counts, lmao
@@nimrodpaul6875 that nimrod in your name fits well I see
@@gamermapper
seems to be pretty much
like literally all of the US Presidents so whatever I guess?
I've also been interested in this, and have been looking into Ancestry to figure out which presidents are closely related to me. So far, it's John Adams who is the closest relation, and Martin van Buren (surprise!) is the furthest. So far I'm up to Zachary Taylor.
Honestly, thanks for explaining the "once removed" stuff. I think that it means that my cousin's kid is my cousin once removed. Now, all that's left is to find out how do you call that in my native language...
Your cousins child will be your second cousin.
It’s funny that my 8th cousin 4x removed is Calvin Coolidge. I’ve recently discovered it by accident when I did family history research. It was fascinating
Not sure if the general store in Plymouth notch Vermont is still open, they have a book about Calvin Coolidge and it has a family tree in it, I looked at it as a child, my maternal grandmother, my mom and her siblings, me and my brothers names are listed on the family tree.
What a wonderful chart BTW both Roosevelt did meet at Eleanor wedding Interestingly because TR filled in the role father of the bride because her real father passed away image both TR and FDR looking at each other directly.
FDR was obsessed with Teddy in his life time. It's probably the reason he married Eleanor
I'm curious. Do we know if any of the presidents (or their ancestors) knew their relationship to others while they were alive? I think that would be interesting to know.
John Quincy Adams knew his relationship to at least one other president while he was alive.
@@JohnGisMe kek
Yes, George W. Bush and Barak Obama know they are related. It wasn't talked about in this video.
I find this fascinating. I am a member of Family Search. It shows me related to 19 American presidents. Most are related through my mother's side which were English and settled in Virginia. Funny thing is, I didn't even know Mom's relatives settled in colonial Virginia until two or three years ago.
Being from Tidewater VA it'd be interesting to see who is related to Jamestown Settlement, president or prominent citizen.
Would you consider doing a chart on language families. Such as Native American? Would be really cool
I'm a random ass Canadian with almost entirely British ancestry and both Martin Van Buren and Teddie Roosevelt are distant cousins of mine as a result of a single Dutch-American Loyalist ancestor. It's utterly meaningless, of course, but I do love these distant, random connections that we all have hiding somewhere in our family trees!
Lol I love it. For a Canadian thats pretty special indeed. However many americans from the NY state desentant from Duch people.
@@axolotl-guy9801 yep! My ancestor was from Albany, and some of his ancestors were among the earliest European settlers of the city; no doubt I have many, many distant cousins in that area still today!
We must in some way be related then, also! Look above the read what I wrote, to understand why I say this.
@@carolweaver3269 Oh neat! We almost certainly are, one way or another. If you're curious, my link (that I know of) to the dead Presidents is through Nicholas Laurens Van Schaick and his wife Jannetje, who are tenth generation ancestors of mine. I'm descended from their daughter Feitje/Fytje/Frtje, while MVB and Teddie are descended from their sons Laurens and Emanuel, respectively!
@@thewuurm That is intereting and will check it out. I do remember the namee VanSchaick. They were related and some lived in my area. Dutch people migrated to an area in upstate NY. TY
LOL, I love how you end by asking us to let you know if you have missed anything, as if I would ever now. Very interesting. However I think Mayflower qualifies as a ship, not a boat.
Hi, Matt. I love the work and your channel. In this chart, you made a mistake at Teddy Roosevelt rectangle. You wrote 26th US President 1901-1919. It should be 26th US President 1901-1909.
Fun fact: President John Tyler’s grandson (YES! Grandson) is still alive: Harrison R. Tyler is 93 years old.
*Harrison Tyler:* "My grandpa was 9 years old when the President died."
*Rando:* "President Kennedy?"
*Harrison Tyler:* "President Washington"
Yup! John Tyler outlived his first wife, then remarried a _much_ younger woman late in life and had a few more children with her. And one of _those_ sons did the same.
Tyler had 15 kids who were born across a span of 45 years.
Last I heard he was living at the Tyler Plantation Sherwood Forest in Virginia
My family spoke to him years ago while touring the Plantation
We are directly related to President Tyler
I am a Tyler.
Lyndon Johnson and Barack Obama being family surprised me
Obama’s mother is white
I find it fascinating that Barack Obama is related to Lyndon Johnson. Thanks for doing the video!
His mother was white.
This would be easier to follow if it was a series exploring each individual presidents tree.
Imagine going back in time to show the top names like John Taylor this chart and recording their reactions
I just got my DNA results and I’m in the process of connecting my cousins to my family tree so I really love these types of topics.
Might want to have DNA tests with a few companies. Several people I know,have,and they had different results with dtheir DNA samples. For real.
Have you ever done a deep dive on the Livingston family? I just took a brief look at their family tree and found a bunch of famous names, including Lewis, Clark, Astor, Roosevelt, Clinton, and Bush.
Would have been great if this was an updated chart, and included all the modern presidents.
I saw a website years ago that almost all presidents were related and it got me intrigued lol
Hey, I am a direct descendant of the Allertons and Cushmans through my Great Grandmother's family (Steadman). I did not realize they were also ancestors of my favorite president.
Types in "Is Tom Hanks re-" and Bing accurately completes my question.
Thanks!