tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post7934510687235293439..comments2024-03-28T04:26:30.557-05:00Comments on Boston 1775: American Politics and the British AristocracyUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post-16649868375481268212008-11-21T06:39:00.000-05:002008-11-21T06:39:00.000-05:00Lady, you're no lady! Check out my latest cartoon ...Lady, you're no lady! Check out my latest cartoon recap of her "career" as political genius at my <A HREF="http://reasonstobecheerful3.blogspot.com/2008/11/lady-de-rothschild-truth-is-stranger.html" REL="nofollow">Reasons To Be Cheerful, Part 3</A> blog.Reasons to Be Cheerful, Part 3https://www.blogger.com/profile/08886932396500447646noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post-45015586878229759642008-11-04T07:10:00.000-05:002008-11-04T07:10:00.000-05:00Thank you for the history.My mom belonged to Conco...Thank you for the history.My mom belonged to Concord ,Mass. DAR!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post-46761474383683439242008-11-03T23:21:00.000-05:002008-11-03T23:21:00.000-05:00Thanks for the info, I think. It means that I’m re...Thanks for the info, I think. It means that I’m related to Gov. Palin. <BR/><BR/>Gary Boyd Roberts at the New England Historical Genealogical Society’s <A HREF="http://www.notablekin.org/" REL="nofollow">Notable Kin site</A> is another font of information on Presidents’ ancestry.J. L. Bellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15405157000473731801noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post-24836239742927503132008-11-03T18:22:00.000-05:002008-11-03T18:22:00.000-05:00An enlightening and entertaining commentary as alw...An enlightening and entertaining commentary as always.<BR/><BR/>From a New England historico-genealogical point of view, McCain and Biden are not of interest. McCain's ancestry is in early Virginia and North Carolina, and Biden's earliest American ancestors were in colonial Delaware and Pennsylvania. (Two of Fischer's core settlement areas in <I>Albion's Seed</I>.)<BR/><BR/>Obama and Palin, however, both descend from another core settlement area: Puritan Massachusetts.<BR/><BR/>> [Obama]’s an immigrant’s son<BR/><BR/>You were thinking of his immigrant father, but on his mother's side Obama is a descendant of Massachusetts Puritan immigrants Edward FitzRandolph of Barnstable (1607–) and Samuel Hinckley of Scituate (–1661). And Sarah Palin is Mayflower descendant through passengers John Howland and Elizabeth Tilley.<BR/><BR/>But through the wonder of genealogy ... Palin is also a descendant of Samuel Hinckley of Scituate, and so Palin and Obama are in fact cousins. (I think it was 9th once removed, but I counted a while ago and have now forgotten.) So whichever way the election goes, there will be a son or daughter of Massachusetts in the White House.<BR/><BR/>Endless details of political genealogy are available from William Addams Reitwiesner of the Library of Congress:<BR/><BR/><A HREF="http://www.wargs.com/political/" REL="nofollow">http://www.wargs.com/political/</A>Robert J.https://www.blogger.com/profile/12937384579138400443noreply@blogger.com