42 of 43 US Presidents are Cousins Related to King John of England

King John, also known as John ‘Lackland’, is renowned for signing the Magna Carta in 1215, which limited the monarch’s power and helped form the British Parliament.

John’s other claim to fame, or infamy, is that he was depicted as the villain in the Robin Hood tales.

Common grandfather: The 12-year-old traced the lineages of nearly all of the U.S. presidents to King John, the signer of the Magna Carta

D’Avignon, a seventh-grader at Monte Vista Christian School in Watsonville, started the project in hopes of tracing back her own bloodline in France, but somewhere along the way she decided to take her genealogical quest to the highest level.

In order to create the family tree, the 12-year-old 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.

D’Avignon started with the first U.S. president, George Washington, she traced both the male and female family lines to make the connection.

Prior to d’Avignon’s discovery, genealogists were only able to link 22 families of presidents, likely because they only focused on male bloodlines.

The only former commander-in-chief not linked to King John is the eighth president, Martin Van Buren, who had Dutch roots. 

The teen also found out that she is the 18th cousin of President Obama. She even wrote to her new-found relative a letter to share her findings with him.

So far, however, d’Avignon said she received only a generic response from the White House.

D’Avignon created a poster of the presidential family tree and is selling signed copies of it in hopes of raising enough money to make a trip to Washington DC. The middle-school student says her goal is to hand-deliver a replica of her family tree to the president. 

'I think we just all go back somewhere; it’s just a matter of proving it,' she said. 

Powerful relative: D'Avignon discovered that she is the 18th cousin of President Obama

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2183858/All-presidents-bar-directly-descended-medieval-English-king.html

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0 #2 2012-08-11 20:47

Everybody's related one way or another through Adam and Eve.

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0 #1 2012-08-08 08:10

This doesn't surprise me. The unelected establishment that actually rules this country has intermarried since colonial times. My extended family has been a part of this group for centuries. One of them even helped finance the Revolutionary War. Some other things that these people have in common are membership in the Masonic Lodge, and Jewish and Islamic Arab ancestry. Some may find that hard to believe, but the research I've done on my genealogy confirms it.

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