From: "Rob Kuijsten©" <kuijsten@SoftHome.net>
To: <GEN-BENELUX-L@rootsweb.com>
Sent: Sunday, September 05, 2004 11:40 PM
Subject: [GEN-BENELUX] [pers] George Bush and John Kerry, Cousins!
A new book showing candidates related now available.
George Bush and John Kerry, 10th cousins! Bush related to ALL the
other presidents. Bush, Kerry and their running mates descend directly
from the prophet Mohammed, as do about 70% of all Americans! John
Edwards more closely related to Elvis than his cousins Bush, Kerry,
and Cheney. And thousands of other fascinating relationships with
kings, queens, horse thieves, and just plain folk.
ALEXANDER, NC (PRWEB) September 5, 2004 -- Alexander Books a
publishing imprint of Creativity, Inc.-Western North Carolina's
largest locally owned book publisher-announces the national release of
Bush/Kerry and Their OTHER Cousins! by Ralph Roberts.
"Humanity," Roberts says, "is a lot more closely related than most
people realize."
If you were to trace your own ancestry back a mere 20 generations, he
explains, you'll find that you have (and everyone has) 1,048,576 20th
great grandparents, spread out over a wide geographic area, through
many countries and over several continents. That would be people
living around the 1400s for most of us now alive. Follow the lines of
their children, their childrens' children, and so forth back to this
present time and you have tens of millions of cousins!
He calls this concept Full Genealogy, as opposed to traditional
genealogy, which tends to focus on just ancestors, and thus misses the
fascinating branches coming back up from the past.
Roberts, in his book, shows how using the vast family tree records now
on the Internet, you can prove just about anybody related to anybody,
but even he was surprised at how closely related Bush and Kerry are.
It's easy for anyone, to do, he says. "You can proudly show your
lineage from the Emperor Charlemagne and descent from a thousand years
of kings and queens, knights and barons, dukes, and counts."
One chapter in Bush/Kerry and Their OTHER Cousins! shows how about 70
percent of all Americans descend directly from the Prophet Mohammed.
This means that any of the many millions of Arabs living today across
North Africa, in Saudi Arabia, yes even in Iraq are no more distantly
related to most of us than somewhere around 40th cousin! Bush and
Kerry are both about 40th great-grandsons of the Prophet, as is
documented in this book......... More :
http://www.prweb.com/releases/2004/9/prweb155114.htm