Get Out! Barack Related to Pitt -- Hillary to Angie

Posted Mar 25th 2008 6:04PM by TMZ Staff

This is one crazy family tree! The New England Historic Genealogical Society, the oldest and largest nonprofit genealogical organization in the country, has found a way to get Barack and Hillary together -- through lineage!

They claim Barack Obama and Brad Pitt are ninth cousins, and Hillary Clinton is related to Pitt's baby mama, Angelina Jolie -- they're also ninth cousins. That family reunion would have drama for days!

The report also says that Obama is a very distant relative of President Bush. According to the Geological Society , they are 10th cousins, once removed ... whatever that means.

Barack is also linked to five other Presidents -- including Harry S. Truman and Gerald Ford.

Hillary is a distant cousin of singers Madonna, Celine Dion and Alanis Morissette, because of French-Canadian descent on her mother's side. If she doesn't win the nomination, maybe they can form a band.

Filed under: Wacky & Weird, Brad & Angelina, Prez Election 2008

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16. Good God! WHO CARES!!!!

Posted at 8:08PM on Mar 25th 2008 by Belle2004

17. Whatever Hillary has got, you can rest assured it belongs to somebody else.

Posted at 8:14PM on Mar 25th 2008 by FlBiker

18. Thomas Jefferson read the Koran, and had children from a black slave...run the tree back that far...

Posted at 8:15PM on Mar 25th 2008 by Library

19. Then probably Obama, Hillary, and McCain must be related to each other
just like George Bush is related to John Kerry and they are related to the UK royal family.

Posted at 8:24PM on Mar 25th 2008 by BOEING 787

20. Yeah, right.

Posted at 8:48PM on Mar 25th 2008 by Jack54

21. Yeah,right.

Posted at 8:48PM on Mar 25th 2008 by Jack54

22. I think that i shell never see a poem as lovely as a tree .Who said that?

Posted at 8:50PM on Mar 25th 2008 by Mik

23. A system of degrees and removes is used to describe the relationship between the two cousins and the ancestor they have in common. The degree (first, second, third cousin, etc.) indicates the minimum number of generations between either cousin and the nearest common ancestor; the remove (once removed, twice removed, etc.) indicates the number of generations, if any, separating the two cousins from each other.

For example, a person with whom you share a grandparent is your first cousin; someone with whom you share a great-grandparent is a second cousin. Where your relationship to the nearest common ancestor is different from your cousin's relationship then the term removed is used to indicate this, for example the child of your first cousin is your first cousin once removed because there is a generation between you.

Posted at 8:59PM on Mar 25th 2008 by Wiki Nut

24. This is funny but the fact is if you go back more than 3-4 generations you will not have a lot of the same genes. So the relationship is basically just iconic.

If you go back 8-10 generations then you're probably related to half the USA ...

Posted at 9:01PM on Mar 25th 2008 by Dargam

25. WHO CARES?

Posted at 9:01PM on Mar 25th 2008 by Me

26. Obama wouldnt claim any of his white relation after he threw his mother and granny who raised him under the bus,and worked to pay for his education/Then he writes a book praising his so called daddy who ran off when the boy was three.What a winner obama is

Posted at 9:16PM on Mar 25th 2008 by don

27. And Shiloh and babies-to-be are related to them all.

Posted at 9:21PM on Mar 25th 2008 by VRlover

28. :Brad Pitt Related to Barack Obama, Angelina Jolie to Hillary Clinton , after read the news .I think I Related to Tylenol and Advil.

Posted at 9:32PM on Mar 25th 2008 by Orchild

29. wonder if she'll dodge all these relatives....like she dodged all those bullets...oh, wait...that didn't happen.....'yawn'

Posted at 9:38PM on Mar 25th 2008 by Tommy

30. "Once Removed" means that instead of being direct cousins, one person is one generation later. So if Bob and Steve are 3rd cousins, Bob's son Billy is Steve's third cousin, once removed.

Posted at 9:38PM on Mar 25th 2008 by gin

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