What do you think?

[spot2180]

Not sure if this is real or not, but if it is, what does it mean? An article from 2012.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... -king.html
Is ruling in the genes? All presidents bar one are directly descended from a medieval English king

What do Barack Obama, Thomas Jefferson, George W. Bush and the other past U.S. presidents have in common? Besides holding the coveted title of commander-in-chief, it appears that all of them but one are cousins.

[stlcatfan]

That's a neat story. It does make you wonder. Family trees can be fascinating. With a name like d'Avignon, she shouldn't have any trouble knowing where in France to start looking for relatives.

I discovered, just last night that I am a direct descendant of at least three families that came over on the Mayflower. I've been working on a family tree for some time now through Ancestry.com and noticed that one line of my family tree went back to the 1600s in Plymouth, Massachusetts. I kept going back until I got to an ancestor named John Howland who was born in 1627 in Plymouth, which was seven years after the Mayflower arrived. Then I saw that John's father had the same name and he and his wife Elizabeth Tilley (and her family) came over from England. So I looked up the passenger list for the Mayflower and there they were! More research turned up that I am also a descendant of the Brewster and Fuller families who were also on the Mayflower. Pretty neat, although I'm sure those families must have tens of thousands of descendants living today.

[ToledoCat#3]

Just a note: My family traces back to Andrew Jackson and Abe Lincoln.

A family friend of my paternal great-grandmother apparently knew the Mary Todd family and reported to my GGM that the Todd's were really disappointed at daughter Mary's marriage to such a commoner as Abe Lincoln.

[SCKSCat]

Do you like synthetic computer generated pop music they play in store and restaurants?
We ate a early free pie & supper and they played this at the restaurant we ate at.
10 more minutes listening to this kind of music and I would have barfed.
Same old crap song after song, techno beats with some some AI soundtrack
Give 60s and 70s rock and hillbilly southern rock, now that's music.

[stlcatfan]

Do you like synthetic computer generated pop music they play in store and restaurants?
We ate a early free pie & supper and they played this at the restaurant we ate at.
10 more minutes listening to this kind of music and I would have barfed.
Same old crap song after song, techno beats with some some AI soundtrack
Give 60s and 70s rock and hillbilly southern rock, now that's music.

I think they call it "Muzak." Probably because it's not real music. When I hear it played in stores, I wonder if they are trying to get their customers to leave sooner.

[SCKSCat]

Just a note: My family traces back to Andrew Jackson and Abe Lincoln.

A family friend of my paternal great-grandmother apparently knew the Mary Todd family and reported to my GGM that the Todd's were really disappointed at daughter Mary's marriage to such a commoner as Abe Lincoln.

Times have changed. People used to honor the President.