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Child links presidents to past king
NBC News
October 26, 2009 - 10:35am
A California seventh-grader and her 80-year-old grandfather are allegedly the first people to discover that President Barack Obama is related to all other U.S. presidents except one.
BridgeAnne d'Avignon, who attends Monte Vista Christian School in Watsonville, traced that Obama, and all other U.S. presidents except Martin Van Buren, are related to John "Lackland" Plantagenet, a king of England and signer of the Magna Carta.
The student and her grandfather, who is a genealogist, spent this past summer designing the first known family tree chart in history that shows the presidents' direct relationship.
BridgeAnne's grandfather has researched president genealogy for 60 years.
"I'm very glad I got this done, and I think it will turn out to be a success," BridgeAnne said.
BridgeAnne has written to Obama, who she has concluded is her own 11th cousin, in hopes that she will get a chance to present the president with the chart.
BridgeAnne's U.S. Presidents Family Tree is set to be on display October 28 at the Monte Vista Christian School.
What a joke too many people like this girl that lady and the girls grandpa put together a false tree and screws up actual lines by falsifying other lines by the way why haven't anyone of these people mentioned the king they r suppose to b kin to. TRASH LINES = NO PROOF OF ACTUAL LINEAGE
Derrell Jr
5 months agoWhat a wonderful smart girl to show such interest in your history. I too, am into genealogy and have several lines to John "Lackland" Plantagenet and to most of the Presidents..so in some way I am related to you. This is an amazing feat for such a young girl, even with the help of Granddad. I hope you get to present it to him and he appriciates the amount of time that went into this project.
Joan Owens
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