The validity of the maternal family tree of President Abraham Lincoln is debated on many sites. However, with the generally agreed line:
President Abraham Lincoln and I are 4th cousins 6 times removed. And actor Tom Hanks and I are 9th cousins 2 times removed.
And Tom Hanks and Abraham Lincoln are either 4th cousins 4 times removed (if you go by one questioned line), 5th cousins 4 times removed (if you go by the other questioned line), or 3rd cousins 4 times removed (if you Google it.)
And all three of us share an ancestor who was born in Buckland Gloucester England in the early 1400s.
And this is how I spent my lunch hour.

2 comments:
Very cool! I'm trying to get into genealogy work. It hasn't been something that I've had the "bug" for, but it's a goal I have this year. :)
i haven't ever really gotten into it. but i have tried it, and it is really hard to do for my ancestry. but, my great great great great er... great (??) grandfather was a black freed slave.
i have a friend who is a descendent from pocahontas.
this is something i should look into more...
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