August 29, 2008
Genealogists will love the fact that the new Republican choice for Vice President – Sarah Heath Palin is a descendant of multiple Mayflower passengers: John Tilley, John Howland, Stephen Hopkins, Elder William Brewster, Richard Warren and other well known New England families.
I am also descended from those Mayflower passengers …. so we’re cousins.
She is also a descendant of the Rev. John Lathrop – famous to genealogists as the “gateway” ancestor of many US Presidents, inventors, actors and celebrities.
No doubt in the days ahead we will see stories of how she is related to our other cousins: George Bush, Queen Elizabeth, Barack Obama, John Kerry, Dick Cheney, George Washington, King George III, King Henry VIII, Abraham Lincoln and the list will go on and on.
It’s a great day for genealogy!
In her Mayflower ancestors is it supposed to be Elder William Brewster or Governor William Bradford. Brewster was never governor.
Stacy B. C. Wood,Jr.
http://www.SAIL1620.org
Aloha Cousin Tom,
Far more fun and enriching than just seeing the stories that will appear in the days ahead, in the new Family Forest® it is possible to just point-and-click and visually explore the generation-by-generation family ties which connect Governor Palin to each of the people you mentioned, plus Hollywood and media celebrities such as Richard Gere, Cokie Roberts, Katharine Hepburn, Joanne Woodward, Julia Child, Ted Danson, Bing Crosby, Bruce Dern, Clint Eastwood, Kyra Sedgwick and Kevin Bacon, Tennessee Williams, Robert Redford, Raquel Welch, Don Imus, Christopher Lloyd, Lee Remick, David Hyde Pierce, Garrison Keillor, Alec Baldwin and his brothers, Humphrey Bogart, Sam Waterston, Orson Welles, Arthur Sulzberger, Jr., Paul Giamatti, and many others. http://www.familyforest.wordpress.com
Best Regards,
Bruce Harrison
Hi Tom,
I also descend from William Brewster!
Fred
is sarah heath palin a descendant of sir robert heath as well as william m.heath of surry county,virginia who had slaves according to his 1682 will ? dawah_ma_90221@yahoo.com-thank you
When will you people get off the "slave train"? Study your history – slaves were brought here from Africa by their own people – blacks – who sold them to the Spaniards who brought them to the new world. Everyone had slaves back then, Washington, Jefferson and the Adams's. That period in history is dead – or should be – and present day blacks just can't seen to let go. Who fuels racism> You do anonymous.