How's that for a headline, Barack Obama is a distant cousin to Brad Pitt.
Once you get beyond grandfathers and so forth I get pretty mixed up with this "once or twice removed" business. I really don't know much about genealogy but the folks who do say that Obama and Pitt are distantly related.
If you look very, very closely, you can see the similarities between these guys. They're both in good shape, they both apparently like the seashore, they both have short hair, they both squint when the sun is in their eyes, they both get wet when near water, they're both at least 6 feet tall, yeah, I can see the family resemblance.
Even more astonishing is the fact that Hillary Rodham Clinton is related to Brad Pitt's wife, Angelina Jolie, which is starting to make this whole thing seem a bit incestuous in an abstract way.
Here's the link to the Obama, Pitt, Clinton, Jolie cousins story and while you're there check out the links on the left side of the page for more celebrity genealogy information.
Obama Image Source:www.textually.org
Pitt Image Source:www.data1.blog.de
Check out the full Barack Obama family tree here: http://kindo.com/en/famous-people/barack-obama-family-tree/barack-obama.html
March story in the Big Island Weekly about this connection to Brad Pitt and others too in the Family Forest Project at:
http://familyforest.wordpress.com/2009/03/30/big-picture-story-from-the-big-island/
The Family Forest Project®
at http://www.familyforest.com
A People-Centered Approach To History®
http://familyforest.wordpress.com
was noted awhile back for the cousin connection between President Barack Obama and Brad Pitt at:
http://www.bigislandweekly.com/articles/2009/03/25/read/news/news06.txt
Now its big news because Ancestry announces it and uses pictures of Bush, Kerry and Hefner cousin connection from the FamilyForest.com CBS story in 2004 election.
FamilyForest.com and their Presidential and Celebrity Connections:
http://familyforest.wordpress.com/2009/05/20/family-forest%c2%ae-was-first-again/
Now you can see these family tie connections and more in the new just released Family Forest® National Treasure edition at http://www.familyforest.com
and more celebrity connections at:
http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-10-13/look-whos-related/?cid=sexybeast:mainpromo3#gallery=835;page=7
“According to Family Forest, the Hepburn bloodline….”
There are so many connections to US Presidents, Hollywood celebrities, notable people in history and just everyday people like you and me in the Family Forest.
See the blog for more too at http://familyforest.wordpress.com