Kerry and Bush are Cousins??

Daughter Cub is doing a report in Civics on John Kerry. She just came across this info. You can read more at www.worldhistory.com. In the search enter John Kerry and it is the first article under the google ad box.


"John Kerry's maternal grandmother, Margaret Tyndal Winthrop, came from a family with deep roots in Massachusetts history, and was raised in Boston. Her grandfather was Robert Charles Winthrop, the conservative Whig Speaker of the House and a senator, and her ancestors include James Bowdoin, former governor of Maine, and John Winthrop, the first governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Other notable figures in this branch of Kerry's family tree are Franklin D. Roosevelt (4th cousin twice removed), Jane Addams, Calvin Coolidge (8th cousin once removed), and ironically, George H.W. Bush (9th cousin once removed), and George W. Bush (16th cousins, three times removed). http://www.familyforest.com/Kerry_Bush_Cousins.html"

And to think Bush carries on about MA as if it were a foreign land!