Download the chart for free (with typos fixed): usefulcharts.com/blogs/charts/how-us-presidents-are-related

@bazsnell3178

2 жыл бұрын

Your ''Download the chart for Free' doesn't work.

@UsefulCharts

2 жыл бұрын

@@bazsnell3178 The link works for me. Try again? Once you get to the page, you have to right click on the image and select "Save As".

@SmartsellerGaming

2 жыл бұрын

something you missed.26 out of the 46 presidents

@tamasys

2 жыл бұрын

Looks like the dates on Obama are wrong - I think it's got Bush's dates instead?

@yarazooom

2 жыл бұрын

Guess there was never a chance for me to be PRESIDENT due to the fact my desendants didn't ride the MAYFLOWER and I'm a jewish woman. all presidents are christian males

I noticed a lot of the earlier presidents were more closely related by blood, I imagine this stems from 2 things 1) the gene pool of Americans at large was more restricted to descendants of certain people as there had been fewer waves of migration & 2) the gene pool of people eligible to vote and hold office was restricted to a landholding upper class which tended to hang out and marry within itself

@lightyagami3492

2 жыл бұрын

This is so true.

@ThePurpleclone

2 жыл бұрын

A lot of people don't realize that the Slave-owning class of the United States was one of the most influential and richest groups of people on the planet at the time. They held more wealth and had more income than European land-owning aristocrats of the same time period. It's a wonder this country got the courage to rid themselves of such a barbaric and powerful class of people.

@agen5573

2 жыл бұрын

It is probably both though i think the first led to the second since the gene pool would have been restricted by alot especially in the early days and over the years these people would become the land holding upper class P.S.I am no expert in these kinda stuff, it was just guess

@mortache

2 жыл бұрын

@@ThePurpleclone it was at the point when direct chattel slavery was no longer as necessary, especially to the industrialized North. I doubt "courage" had much to do with it. We're just more likely to despise an evil if we didn't grow up experiencing and normalizing it. Slavery still exists in many forms in many places, you get stuff like chocolates, fruits, batteries etc by extensive use of slave labor. Not to mention the horrible wartorn countries left behind prime for sex trafficking etc.

@RenegadeShepard69

2 жыл бұрын

@@ThePurpleclone It didn't get rid of such a barbaric and powerful class of people, that class just moved on to different ways to maintaining themselves as powerful through new ways of exploiting their countrymates (and foreigners).

It’s ironic that Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis were both related through the Taylor Family. It really was a Civil War between brothers.

@NisarKhan-jm1uh

2 жыл бұрын

You mean distant cousin in law

@relicman

Жыл бұрын

I always thought they looked similar.

@jeremy8473

Жыл бұрын

@@relicman Right? if he grew a beard I bet the similarity would be uncanny

@vinny9868

Жыл бұрын

Political differences are notorious to spark some nasty fights during family gatherings, so it's not too surprising.

@19Pyrus70

Жыл бұрын

All I know is that someone probably didn't get invited to the family reunion.

Deciding to go on the Mayflower really was like the ultimate risk-reward decision. Either you become the progenitor of one of the most influential bloodlines the world has ever seen for generations to come, or you froze/starved to death thousands of miles from home in some cabin.

@pastashack3517

7 ай бұрын

The trick was to last long enough so that, if you did die in your cabin, it *was* home

@dorktriogamer2865

2 ай бұрын

​@@chairmanofthebored8684 Yes, the mayflower was a voyage of employees and volunteers, it wasn't like Georgia or Australia

@bentleyburke2242

2 ай бұрын

The mayflower bloodline is extremely vast. The reason there are so many influential people from it is because of the odds that anyone in America is a direct descendant is like 1 in 5 (even higher in the 1700s and 1800s). It’s not like it’s an exclusive club. We all have 32,768 great great great great great great great great great great great great great grandparents each and those 16,384 couples (especially if they were from the mayflower) had tens of children each. And those tens of children had many children too. We are all the same bloodline my friend.

@bentleyburke2242

2 ай бұрын

Also the chances that at least one of those 32,768 was on the mayflower is ridiculously high if you are American.

You gave the best description and visual of the difference between first cousins, and first cousins once removed, that I’ve ever heard. Thank you!

Now I really want you to make this again with 5 random americans from the country and then find those kinds of close connections to a president.

@lightyagami3492

2 жыл бұрын

I already know my closest relation to a president by blood. For me it's FDR

@davidhunt6508

2 жыл бұрын

5 random Americans might be a little harder to track down their genealogies due to things like family status, wealth, ethnicity, etc. For most if not all of the presidents they come from fairly wealthy/affluent upper middle class-->upper class families, who probably happen to care a little more about things like pedigree than the average American.

@lightyagami3492

2 жыл бұрын

@@tempest2000 I was about to say that some of the lines are wrong especially as you go further up the tree. Lots of people want to connect to royalty or some important figure so they shortcut the research and hence mistakes are made. I guess what im saying to people that use relative finder is just take the information with a grain of salt unless you have actually verified it.

@kendalljennings3417

2 жыл бұрын

I’m a random American, my closest president relative is Herbert Hoover.

@PatrickDavis28

2 жыл бұрын

I'm a direct descendant of Abe Lincoln's uncle lol

Imagine being a Mayflower passenger in 1620 not knowing that there will be at least 9 future president of their descendants.

@jackguest145

2 жыл бұрын

They wouldn't even know what the word president means

@engineergaming4201

2 жыл бұрын

@@jackguest145 What's stopping anyone from explaining the word to them?

@RAWDOGG69

2 жыл бұрын

@@engineergaming4201 they had bigger fish to fry & natives to slaughter

@porsche911sbs

2 жыл бұрын

imagine being some peasant in medieval Europe and knowing your descendant will land on the moon

@anyoneofus9948

2 жыл бұрын

they were more worried about how many were going to survive and the spat between two of their captains John Alden and Miles Spandish over the only single woman in the colony.

Thank you for covering this chart. My husband is related to Ulysses Grant (his 6th cousin, 6x removed). It was neat to see he is related to other presidents (very distantly).

Amazing research. A gold star for the charting, that had to be exhausting keeping track of it all!

My husband and I are hilariously unrelated. His paternal geneology was published by a family biographer, so we have that back to like 400AD. His maternal family is Cuban, so we know that line back to the 16th century. My mom converted to LDS and did a massive geneology map for her family and my dad's family was in every major American war since they got here. Us meeting was the first time our families had ever contacted each other.

@supershinigami1

2 жыл бұрын

very intersting

@AlifNurfakhri

2 жыл бұрын

now that's expanding the gene pool. Good for you both

@randomcommenter5266

2 жыл бұрын

Dang that's long.

@edwynnkelley136

2 жыл бұрын

By any chance is your dad's line related to Leutenant Dan?

@kiliipower355

2 жыл бұрын

Means that they are related to at least 10 million people. :-)

This is one of the best charts that you've ever made. I guess no one is surprised at my bias. 😀

@ick567

2 жыл бұрын

lol

@vampiregamingyt8754

2 жыл бұрын

Of course not. You are related to presidents

@pushkarkumar4898

2 жыл бұрын

Lulu punga

@BlackPantherUWM

2 жыл бұрын

You’re such a monarchist though

@Woodly6000plays

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah agree

I grew up with my Grandma (Mother's mother) telling me I was a 14th cousin of Abraham Lincoln. I am actually 3rd cousin 6X removed. Now that I have done quite a lot of work on my chart, I found out that yes, I was related on my Mother's side through the Hanks, but also related on my father's side to his Father. Phillippe DeLaNoye was the father-in-law of my first cousin Mercy Warren (mother was a Walker) again on my Father's side of the family. Franklin Roosevelt was my 7th cousin. Teddy Roosevelt is in my tree as the Uncle of the wife of Franklin as you pointed out as that is a closer relation than tracing back to Phillipe. Which makes Ulysses S Grant my fifth cousin (tracing back to Cousin Mercy and Lieut. Jonathan Delano again). I didn't realize that Lieut. Jonathan's brother Thomas would lead me to Calvin Coolidge. I also have Richard Nixon as a 9th cousin on my Father's side of the family connected to his Mother's side of the family. John Howland was my 10th great Uncle, but I never realized that would lead to being cousins with the Bush's. You've given me lot's more to research in my tree.

@VladKalashnik

Жыл бұрын

And are you out of the loop knowing that you are related? Not part of any secret society?

@k.o.1336

9 ай бұрын

Abraham Lincoln is my 6th cousin, 7 times removed on my maternal side. We even have old letters from him to another family member that have been passed down.

@WasherGuy247

8 ай бұрын

Also related to Grant...5th cousin or nephew...my Aunt and Father would tell us as we were kids .. unfortunately neither are here and or able to explain it further as we got older and wanting to understand the family tree

@007theluckyboy

5 ай бұрын

So will you be the next president ? 🤔

@Nyxlt34

Ай бұрын

I’m all royal blood not presidential

Wow, that's incredible! I can't imagine the work that had to go into all this!

Thank you for including the whole 1st, 2nd, removed explanation. I've heard it verbally explained before. But seeing the chart explanation finally drove it home for me.

@highpath4776

2 жыл бұрын

yeah, dont ask me to remember it though !

@sirk603

2 жыл бұрын

Cpg grey has a test video on it too

@ryanjohnson8528

2 жыл бұрын

It helped but I need to find one to explain how my great aunts kids are related. Are they cousins or second cousins or first cousins once removed lol

@highpath4776

2 жыл бұрын

@@ryanjohnson8528 I think Ancestry has an idiot guide -either on line or on one of the YT explainer channels

@KristenK78

Жыл бұрын

@@ryanjohnson8528 it depends on where your common ancestor falls.

I've seen an early 1950s interview with Prescott Bush (HW's dad). They kind of looked similar, but their voices couldn't have been more different. While HW had that soft-spoken "Mr Rogers" type voice, his dad Prescott had a very stern and authoritative voice. HW probably inherited his voice from his mother, Dorothy Walker (who died immediately after her son lost re-election to Bill Clinton in 1992)

@iammrbeat

2 жыл бұрын

That is fascinating stuff

@jakubpociecha8819

2 жыл бұрын

And then there's Dubya with his Texan twang

@hozonkai9967

2 жыл бұрын

@@jakubpociecha8819 Dubya was born in Connecticut, HW in Massachusettes, Prescott in Ohio. His father, Samuel Bush was born in NJ. His father, James Smith Bush, was born in Upstate NY. As was his father, Obadiah. You have to go SIX generations to find a consequtive father-son pair born in the same state.

@hozonkai9967

2 жыл бұрын

@@iammrbeat There's also an urban legend that Barbara's father was not Marvin Pierce, but actually Aleister Crowley. Again, urban legend, but some people believe it.

@jakubpociecha8819

2 жыл бұрын

@@hozonkai9967 And then Dubya moved to Texas while Jeb moved to Florida

Matt, would you consider making a video or series on founding fathers that were not US Presidents. It’s very fascinating to see who are related to whom. For example Benjamin Franklin, The Penn Family, players in the Revolutionary War and Civil War, etc. Thank you for the consideration.

Thank you for this nuanced take!

I was just googling about this yesterday, looking for someone who had made this exact chart! Crazy!

@ShadoZP

2 жыл бұрын

Phone is listening

@rampartnation

2 жыл бұрын

Same company. The algorithms track you arcross platforms so they suggest things you may be interested in.

@myrddinemrys1332

2 жыл бұрын

@@rampartnation I think it's more likely they're commenting on the fact they were looking for something like this yesterday and then today this video was released.

@rampartnation

2 жыл бұрын

@@myrddinemrys1332 I see! Then yes that is crazy.

@peanutbutterpuppies2756

2 жыл бұрын

@@myrddinemrys1332 that's what I thought. But that happens too often! With youtubers I know! I remember I was playing off brand raft, and then a few days later raft gets updated and markiplier plays it.

I’m a descendent of John Howland so I found this fascinating, there are so many people that I’m related to just from him. Fun fact: Howland was thrown off the mayflower during a storm and nearly died. The Roosevelt’s I believe were also his descendants, there doesn’t appear to be be any connection on this chart

@samanthabotelho7164

2 жыл бұрын

He’s a great grandfather of mine too! Like 15th or 16th, I forget.

@SOZO_xo

2 жыл бұрын

@@samanthabotelho7164 I am also a descendent of Howland, so, hi cuz! 😜.

@WillieStubbs

2 жыл бұрын

If Howland had died on the Mayflower voyage then we wouldn't have had the Bushes or Nixon which would have solved a lot of our current troubles in America (and I'm no Democrat either). But then I wouldn't have been born either. While JFK wasn't a saint Sr. Bush was most likely involved with the assassination and Nixon was a stooge for those cronies and Jr. Bush made up 9/11 to get rid of our puppet Hussein because he threated to kill his daddy. Makes me realize we really need to pray for our descendants.

@jimmy2055

2 жыл бұрын

@@WillieStubbs you believe everything you hear on tv don’t you

@WillieStubbs

2 жыл бұрын

@@jimmy2055 I haven't seen any of that on t.v. The MSM is full of crap.

I’m absolutely fascinated by all of the genealogy stuff! So you and I are related, found it from another video you shared showing your grandfather and we are related through your grandmother! So it shows we are 11th cousins once removed!

@vickyko

4 күн бұрын

All related and bought by the Roths childs and blackmaild by gates, epsteen allegedly reeeeeeeeeee

Thank you for this. It is helping me with my family tree soooo much.

That depends upon how extended you define "related". I love the fact you stated that we are "all related" which is a good reminder to us all, but also defeats some people's pretensions!

@highpath4776

2 жыл бұрын

IF I ignore some marriages most of my ancestry goes around in circles in Ireland in C16th

@lekhakaananta5864

2 жыл бұрын

I mean, they're all living organisms, so clearly they had a common ancestor... lol

@billkillernic

2 жыл бұрын

It does not these people are obviously in cahoots with each other , marrying each other etc, the fact that e.g I too may be related to them (at 10 times the distance) is irrelevant and serves only as a decoy argument

@highpath4776

2 жыл бұрын

@@billkillernic Indeed the worst thing in life is Family you cannot chose it in the same way you can choose your friends

@billkillernic

2 жыл бұрын

@@highpath4776 That's for poor families, if you are born into a wealthy and well conected family that has power then even if you dont like individuals of said family its the best thing happening to you ever which also will make you strong and influential friends that actually want to be your friends and you dont have to convince them

Also worth noting, Nixon served as Eisenhower’s VP.

@lightyagami3492

2 жыл бұрын

Yep. So it's not surprising that the Nixon and Eisenhower families got really close hence the marriage.

@TJCKWC

2 жыл бұрын

It's not every day that one of your kids marries one of your old boss's grandchildren.

@forkspoon5375

2 жыл бұрын

@@TJCKWC true

@AmazingEtte

2 жыл бұрын

@@TJCKWC It truly was though 80 years ago

5:30 I've seen a website that has the same exact design but the way you described "once removed" made it more comprehensive.

Fascinating! Nice upload

You earned that thumbs up for finally and concisely explaining the “first cousin once removed” thing. I never understood it until now!

I find it difficult to believe that the interconnection between the presidents is just the same as if you selected a bunch of completely random US citizens. This claim made at the beginning that this is the case was not explained. These are all rich and powerful families in that country, and it makes sense that they marry within their class/caste, and are given extraordinary opportunities.

@hazelgoodshepherd9315

2 жыл бұрын

I agree. This seems like more of a subjective focus based on the author’s worldview. If this young girl could so easily link all the most powerful men in US government throughout recent history to similarly a powerful British man from farther back in history, then I seriously doubt the average person would have similar family links. Especially considering the tendency of the wealthy and powerful to continually marry within their social caste.

@dmbalsam

2 жыл бұрын

I am related to 4 of the presidents through the Alden Family and the Robert/Richard Treat Family. I am just an ordinary citizen, but the families have been here forever. John Alden was an ordinary citizen, too. He was on the Mayflower as crew, a barrel maker.

@hazelgoodshepherd9315

2 жыл бұрын

@@dmbalsam The majority of European immigrants didn’t come over on the Mayflower though. The Mayflower also doesn’t account for my family the indigenous peoples who were already here and subsequently victimized by the aforementioned colonialism, not to mention the millions of black slaves who were kidnapped from Africa, the massive number Latin American immigrants, an increasing number of Asian immigrants, and God only knows how many random refugees. No, I seriously doubt a cross-section of the average American citizen will yield family ties to British royalty.

@michaelvehrs1872

2 жыл бұрын

@@hazelgoodshepherd9315 Indigenous? Your ancestors sailed on Viking ships no matter who they were. Most against their will.

@hazelgoodshepherd9315

2 жыл бұрын

@@michaelvehrs1872 True. But my point is one cannot use the Mayflower theory as an argument that the average American can be traced to kings or queens in England. Because the average American’s ancestors were not even linked to that immigrant voyage.

4:54 you read my mind. I was about to go find another video to refresh my memory on this

Absolutely fascinating!👏👏👏👏

Fun fact: John Scott Harrison (son of William and father of Benjamin) was dug up by grave robbers and brought to a medical school for study. Benjamin was not happy when he found out what had happened to his old man's body

@SanskarWagley

2 жыл бұрын

Benjamin was great grandson to William

@mathieuleader8601

2 жыл бұрын

reminds me of the plot of the cartoon sitcom Li'l Bush

@hozonkai9967

2 жыл бұрын

@@SanskarWagley Nope. Grandson

@colinorryay

2 жыл бұрын

interesting how you go from founding father to president to grave robbery victim to president lmao

@ModernMozartMC

2 жыл бұрын

"fun" fact

This theme works well for Family Day in Canada as well.... Would you consider doing a chart about how Canadian Prime Ministers are related? There aren’t as many but I assume that there must be some close relations (other than the Trudeaus) or relatives by marriage. Also I am sure a lot of Prime Ministers are somewhat closely related to US Presidents.

@empty9251

2 жыл бұрын

There's a post on the usefulcharts subreddit from somebody that made a chart like this showing how dozens and dozens of famous French Canadians are descended from the Cloutier family, including almost every Quebec Premier and a handful of prime ministers. Plus singers, athletes, actors, etc.

@arablumenfeld2994

2 жыл бұрын

Trudeau Jr might have been related to someone in Cuba 😅

@alexmaclean1

2 жыл бұрын

@@arablumenfeld2994 quite a strong "might" as well lol

@jayit6851

2 жыл бұрын

@@arablumenfeld2994 While I do see the resemblance, this theory has been heavily debunked since the Trudeaus didn't meet Castro until 1976 while Trudeau was born in 1971. It seems near impossible that Margret Trudeau snuck away during her honeymoon to go to Cuba to sleep with Castro, a man she had never met before.

@hbowman108

2 жыл бұрын

I've seen a chart showing the relationship between the Trudeaus and Sir Wilfrid Laurier. The number of early settlers in Québec is so small that nearly all Québecois are demonstrably related. The records were carefully complied in the classic book by Cyprien Tanguay and extended by a national project of the Québecois government at the University of Montréal, which has identified nearly all of the members of the Québecois nation born before 1850 and their relationships.

I’ve seen a lot more relations between presidents. It could be cool to see more of these kinds of videos.

@Corey-iw4ot

9 ай бұрын

Just proves that voting doesn't matter and that they choose who get in office years in advance

DUDE, you made this video because of ME hahahahah! I linked this to you a few years back. I am so happy you looked into this. I still believe there is some sketchy crap happening with secret societies. I am a huge fan of truth regardless of results. I am so thankful you broke this down. Doesnt this still seem like a small group of people to you? We are talking about WORLD leaders here.

So it was actually proven that Martin Van Buren *actually is* a descendant of King John, King John was his 17th great grandfather to be exact. If I post the link my comment will obviously be deleted, but for anyone who cares: Martin Van Buren, his father → Maria van Buren his mother → Johannes Dircksen Hoes her father → Elizabeth Wyngaart his mother → Anna Janse Van Hoesen her mother → Father Jan Fransse Gerridt Fransse van Visbeck van Hoesen, 1 her father → Father Frans van Hoesen his father → Marguerite de Croÿ, Dame d'Halewyn et de Commines his mother → Philippe III de Croÿ, duc d'Aerschot her father → Anne de Croÿ his mother → Louise d'Albret her mother → Alain de Grand d'Albret, Comte de Gavre her father → Jeanne Catherine de Rohan his mother → Marguerite de Montfort, dame de Guillac her mother → Jean V de Montfort, duc de Bretagne her father → Jean IV de Montfort, duc de Bretagne his father → Arthur II de Dreux, duc de Bretagne his father → Beatrice of England his mother → Henry III, king of England her father → John I "Lackland", King of England his father

@iammrbeat

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing this!

@wesslingbaker

2 жыл бұрын

@@iammrbeat @Augustus Caesar Unfortunately this is untrue. The connection to the de Croy family is speculative and unproven. Please see the scholarship by Gary Boyd Roberts, author of several editions of “Ancestors of the U.S. Presidents.”

@wesslingbaker

2 жыл бұрын

Sorry, “Ancestors of the American Presidents”

@augustuscaesar8287

2 жыл бұрын

@@wesslingbaker Yeah... unfortunately, all genealogy is speculative and unproven so your eager attempt to dunk on an American (as evident by your "Sorry 'Ancestors of the American Presidents'" comment) was done with an asinine point. It's for that very reason that genealogist were surprised when they found the body of Richard III and looked at his YDNA. But hey, if knowing that little bit of asinine information helps get you to bed at night, more power to you. I can't fault a man for that.

@augustuscaesar8287

2 жыл бұрын

@@iammrbeat No problem. I too, like you, hold a passion for sharing knowledge.

Very interesting chart. It's fortunate but not too surprising how such good records exist for the US presidents. In Ireland it's very hard to trace back over the 150 year mark.

@rouskeycarpel1436

2 жыл бұрын

I think that’s cause the Irish famine displaced so many people and had a catastrophic impact on Irish society as a whole.

@davmcgurrin

2 жыл бұрын

@@rouskeycarpel1436 yeah that certainly played a big part. Unfortunately some old census records were destroyed in our civil war after breaking apart from the UK as well.

@michelleseyer8987

Жыл бұрын

It's also because the canny Irish didn't want the British authorities to know how many children they had. Many infants never received birth certificates. Instead they received baptismal certificates. Often on the sly. Tracing Irish families is often best done via parish churches. Those who descend from the Northern Ireland counties may have more difficulty. "The Troubles," led to the division of Ireland into two parts: the six counties of Northern Ireland, which became part of Great Britain and Protestant, and the 26 counties of southern Ireland, which remained Roman Catholic. Many of the Roman Catholic records were destroyed in Northern Ireland. Some in southern Ireland as well.

Thank you..many of my Ancestors are on here!!! 😊

Thank you for explaining the terms of 1, 2, 3 removed. First time I have had it explained.

First Lady Barbara Bush was 4th cousin, 4 times removed, of President Franklin Pierce, which means he and George W. have a common ancestor. Also, I think a chart like this of the "First Families of Virginia" would be interesting.

I’m a direct descendant of a Mayflower passenger as well, so I guess that makes me related to all of the Presidents. I’m calling in favors.

@IRosamelia

2 жыл бұрын

Does this means you're destined to be president? All hail pres. Bates! 🇺🇸

@laniegirl11

2 жыл бұрын

@@IRosamelia I don’t have the temperament 😂. I’m Dumbledore…prepared to help others but NOT to take power.

@ViscidBeltUSA

2 ай бұрын

That means you have English ancestry :)

Absolutely fascinating.

I would really like to see a version of this with every president

Nice work, Matt. This topic has been covered in print for several years. The best book on the subject is "Ancestors of American Presidents" by Gary Boyd Roberts and published in Boston by the New England Historic Genealogical Society (I own the 2009 edition),

I think I’ve learned more about US history from this video than all my years in school.

@jaidenwbr

Жыл бұрын

When you learn more us history 12 minutes then you have in multiple years of school

@rdk2323

Жыл бұрын

Maybe you should have paid more attention in school

@benjaminbrown9459

Жыл бұрын

They don’t teach us that in school they teach fake history

I’ve read that any two random people of European descent are, on average, about 15th cousins. I’m sure this is true with other races/ethnicities as well. When you all descend from the same relatively small group of people, you’re gonna be related.

Cool video, very interesting, thanks.

As someone who has done some of this kind of research I want to say that this chart is absolutely genius in its simplicity!

I hope this chart becomes a purchasable item. It was truly enlightening!

This is such a cool chart. You should really make a part 2 with all the presidents you missed.

4:52 Thank you so much for taking your time to explain this, as a non native speaker this has always confused me

my favourite thing about how related we really can be is actually personal. i'm afrikaans, with all of my ancestors aside from my grandfather being in south africa since the early 19th century or earlier, most from much earlier. a close friend of mine is american with mostly blackfoot indigenous and african-american ancestry, with most of their european ancestry being finnish. we have a common ancestor in 14th century scotland. we found this out because they were joking about some very funny old danish names much further back in the family tree (9th century?? old enough where whether that person even existed or is entirely legendary is debated) and i recognised it, so we compared how close our trees are until they diverged

@krayziejerry

2 жыл бұрын

I'm Chinese and if you look at our language, it tells the story of Genesis to a T. For example the word for greedy is the word made up of two trees with a women under it symbolizing the tree of life and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.

@JubioHDX

2 жыл бұрын

@@krayziejerry what relevance does that have to anything at all💀

@joedoesasmr7972

Жыл бұрын

@@JubioHDX He is showing how stories are connected between cultures.

@Rakettivuori

Жыл бұрын

That's actually interesting! As someone from Finland I always thought we wouldn't have much connections to elsewhere. May I ask what was the connection in your friends family between Finland and Scotland?

@pigeoncube8881

Жыл бұрын

@@Rakettivuori i'm not very familiar with their family tree, but I believe on the European side of their ancestry, it was in either Canada or the US where the Finnish and Scottish couple met and married. if I remember correctly, Canada used to (may still?) have a much more insular ethnic identities within the settler populations, at least I know the Icelandic and Finnish settlers of Canada were still speaking their native languages several generations out of Europe, and I'm assuming that part of the family was in Canada since I know their most recent Scottish ancestor was a second-generation Canadian, and at least one grandparent still spoke Finnish, but I don't know when their Finnish ancestors migrated to North America, earliest being great-grandparents.

I've discovered that Abraham Lincoln is my 5th cousin five times removed. The clue I followed is that we both have ancestors who landed in Hingham, Plymouth Colony from Hingham, England about two years apart (my ancestor was John Farrow/Farrar). I'm also related to all the Benedict Arnolds with the common ancestor being William (also landed at Hingham, but not from Hingham), the father of the first Benedict. I'm related through a line through my great grandmother who was a Crockett. Funny thing is I was trying to find a connection with Davy Crocket, but my Crocketts had already been in Maine (Massachusetts Bay Colony) for about fifty years before David Crockett's ancestor moved from France to Ireland and changed his name to Crockett (originally de Crocketagne). But I am related to Captain Nathan Hale (who was hanged as a spy by Rogerr's Queen's Rangers - my 4th great grandfather Dr. Azor Betts was Surgeon in the unit and emigrated to New Brunswick after the war so my 3rd great grandmother was from the Canadas) through my 4th great grandmother Ednah Hale (but through her mother's side). I've also discovered that I'm more closely related to Haskell's in another line through matrilineal connections (the Haskells landed in Salem/Beverly in 1635 - the South Carolina Haskells descended from Roger and his brother William is my ancestor).

@patrickc3419

2 жыл бұрын

That’s really cool.

@LTGAki11

Жыл бұрын

Nice,.

@maryromero5709

Жыл бұрын

Me too....my 10 grandfather and he's was 5th grandfather was the same....shocked me....... I am relative too many presidents.....wow.

@amandajean7738

Жыл бұрын

That's cool. My ancestor was the first settler of Norton, Massachusetts. His brother cofounded Watertown, Massachusetts. He landed in Cambridge, Massachusetts before settling Norton.

@watermelonnop3862

Жыл бұрын

I kinda done the same thing except it was a bit harder since I aint American, so lincoln is my 6th cousin 6x removed of wife of 1st cousin 2x removed

I love genealogical connections like this.. and you can't go out looking for it.. finding these connections requires researching every person on multiple trees.. in my own research I discovered that my first husband ( maine native) was related to my second husband's ( Iowa native) first wife ( Minnesota native) through a very early Quebec settler.

This is amazing.

Your videos are so well scripted and amazing. You keep blowing my mind with every upload.

For somebody who is Canadian, I appreciate all the time you put into American history, Matt.

Awesome video, we're distantly related to Lady Bird Johnson on her mother's side. Had no idea of her connection to the other presidents!

So cool and informative!

I am actually related to Ulysses S. Grant through the Grant side. The Minor family married into the Grant family way back in the Massachusetts Bay Colony era, and I am related to the Minor side. John D. Rockefeller is also related to Grant through this family as well, and so are a ton of other people, including the Baldwins and Mickey Rourke. Our mutual ancestor Thomas Minor kept a diary that survived and is now a published book, and there is a Thomas Minor Society for his descendants with over 800 members.

@loislewis5229

2 жыл бұрын

My daughter in law is also related to George Washington (4th cousin 8 times removed) through the Pope family and is a direct descendant of King John. Interesting stuff.

@porsche911sbs

2 жыл бұрын

I'm reading Chernow's Grant biography right now. I'm almost done, it's taken forever for me to read this book.

@puglovefilms702

2 жыл бұрын

I am also related to Ulysses S. Grant!

@taylorjaffe8299

2 жыл бұрын

@@puglovefilms702 Awesome! Which side?

@NisarKhan-jm1uh

2 жыл бұрын

@@puglovefilms702 that's awesome. He is such an underrated president

Would have been interesting to see how, if at all, some of the other famous presidents fit in, like Trump and Clinton

@sandwich434

2 жыл бұрын

Check out Mr. Beat’s counterpart video

@michaelrobb9708

2 жыл бұрын

Hillary and Donald are related

@kkvnair9714

Жыл бұрын

Garfield and McKinley on the Taylor family Kennedy on the Roosevelt family Hayes on the Taylor family Cleveland on the Roosevelt family

@kkvnair9714

Жыл бұрын

Oh Trump and Clinton on the Eisenhower family

@terryperez2299

Жыл бұрын

Trump is supposedly a direct defendant of king Edward III

Just discovered this video. Very interesting. My dad's step-father (who was born in 1899) was from one of the Knickerbocker families. A cousin to both Teddy Roosevelt and Martin Van Buren. There is a saying that all of the Knickerbocker families knew each other. Pretty much. (And, yes, TR was a pretty cool guy, IMO.)

@EvelynElaineSmith

4 ай бұрын

From the missed being a cousin by a tad department: I'm related to FDR through the Delano family.

There is a site called Famous Kin. You can spend hours tracing this and similiar connections for writers, artist,scientist, actor, etc. My conclusion from spending time on that site is that our entire world is centered on the B actress Tuesday Welds.

Fun fact: if you want to know how to calculate the cousins/removed two people are, you only need to follow three steps: 1) identify the common ancestor, 2) count the times each individual uses the word "grand" or "great" to describe the person, 3) the lower number is the "cousin" and the difference is the number of steps removed. So if my grandfather is your great-great-grandfather, we are 1st cousins (I say it once) twice removed (3-1).

One of John Tyler's grandsons in still alive!

I hear about all the Hollywood actress and actors are related...you should make a video about them

Very enjoyable video!

Also important to understand, that these "close relations" are some "going six generations back", not sharing a common ancestor, who was still alive or even personally known to anybody alive at the time of their birth.

@gamermapper

2 жыл бұрын

That still shows that the US political system made it si that mainly wealthy individuals and from European descent could become presidents

@nimrodpaul6875

Жыл бұрын

And many still think our vote counts, lmao

@empynitebyte

Жыл бұрын

​@@nimrodpaul6875 that nimrod in your name fits well I see

@noorbohamad5796

Жыл бұрын

@@gamermapper seems to be pretty much like literally all of the US Presidents so whatever I guess?

Perfect timing. I was just looking into this and my genealogy.

I think a cool idea would be to see if all of the Declaration of Independence signers are all related.

@mbrakes23

5 ай бұрын

I’ve found 28 of the 56 signers in my family tree. Agree it would be an interesting project.

Really interesting video!

I'm a random ass Canadian with almost entirely British ancestry and both Martin Van Buren and Teddie Roosevelt are distant cousins of mine as a result of a single Dutch-American Loyalist ancestor. It's utterly meaningless, of course, but I do love these distant, random connections that we all have hiding somewhere in our family trees!

@axolotl-guy9801

2 жыл бұрын

Lol I love it. For a Canadian thats pretty special indeed. However many americans from the NY state desentant from Duch people.

@thewuurm

2 жыл бұрын

@@axolotl-guy9801 yep! My ancestor was from Albany, and some of his ancestors were among the earliest European settlers of the city; no doubt I have many, many distant cousins in that area still today!

@carolweaver3269

2 жыл бұрын

We must in some way be related then, also! Look above the read what I wrote, to understand why I say this.

@thewuurm

2 жыл бұрын

@@carolweaver3269 Oh neat! We almost certainly are, one way or another. If you're curious, my link (that I know of) to the dead Presidents is through Nicholas Laurens Van Schaick and his wife Jannetje, who are tenth generation ancestors of mine. I'm descended from their daughter Feitje/Fytje/Frtje, while MVB and Teddie are descended from their sons Laurens and Emanuel, respectively!

@carolweaver3269

2 жыл бұрын

@@thewuurm That is intereting and will check it out. I do remember the namee VanSchaick. They were related and some lived in my area. Dutch people migrated to an area in upstate NY. TY

As a history student, I absolutely love your videos! In light of the new Downton Abbey film coming soon, could we please have a look at the Crawley family tree explained? The Earls of Grantham. Thanks!

@FrenkTheJoy

2 жыл бұрын

That would be fun! Especially since it's a bit hard to follow why Matthew is the heir if you aren't super familiar with how that stuff worked.

I find it fascinating that Barack Obama is related to Lyndon Johnson. Thanks for doing the video!

@ViscidBeltUSA

2 ай бұрын

His mother was white.

0:52 I think that the answer to that question would be yes because you are more likely to get into politics if you have a relative in politics.

Great content. There seems to be a small mistake in Teddy Roosevelts years 1901-1919. His presidency ended already in 1909. 1919 is his year of death.

Fun fact: President John Tyler’s grandson (YES! Grandson) is still alive: Harrison R. Tyler is 93 years old.

@hozonkai9967

2 жыл бұрын

*Harrison Tyler:* "My grandpa was 9 years old when the President died." *Rando:* "President Kennedy?" *Harrison Tyler:* "President Washington"

@AaronOfMpls

2 жыл бұрын

Yup! John Tyler outlived his first wife, then remarried a _much_ younger woman late in life and had a few more children with her. And one of _those_ sons did the same.

@zlinedavid

2 жыл бұрын

Tyler had 15 kids who were born across a span of 45 years.

@KalamazooGal

10 ай бұрын

Last I heard he was living at the Tyler Plantation Sherwood Forest in Virginia My family spoke to him years ago while touring the Plantation We are directly related to President Tyler I am a Tyler.

Yes we are all Cousin's glad to hear somebody said it besides me

Hi, Matt. I love the work and your channel. In this chart, you made a mistake at Teddy Roosevelt rectangle. You wrote 26th US President 1901-1919. It should be 26th US President 1901-1909.

Loved the video! I always thought that original genealogical claim of the Presidents was a bit off. Sidenote: I just noticed a typo on George Washington's block: 1st was mistyped as "1sr"

Would be really interested to see this with Canadian PMs!

@dictatorofcanada4238

2 жыл бұрын

Could be difficult to find how the Francophone and Anglophone PMs are related to each other.

@Chulkoff

2 жыл бұрын

And Ukrainian presidents

@HBC101TVStudios

2 жыл бұрын

@@Chulkoff Malaysian PMs. Since they all are extremely related to each other except for Tun Mahathir, Tun Abdullah Badawi and Tunku Abdul Rahman. Najib for example is the cousin of Hishamuddin Tun Hussein, Najib himself is the son of Tun Abdul Razak.

@nb5437

2 жыл бұрын

Pierre Trudeau is Justin’s dad.

@Ravishrex1

2 жыл бұрын

Castro

Very Interesting.

I find this fascinating. I am a member of Family Search. It shows me related to 19 American presidents. Most are related through my mother's side which were English and settled in Virginia. Funny thing is, I didn't even know Mom's relatives settled in colonial Virginia until two or three years ago.

Lyndon Johnson and Barack Obama being family surprised me

@JescaML

2 ай бұрын

Obama’s mother is white

I've also been interested in this, and have been looking into Ancestry to figure out which presidents are closely related to me. So far, it's John Adams who is the closest relation, and Martin van Buren (surprise!) is the furthest. So far I'm up to Zachary Taylor.

Just the fact you made this video. Tells me

I'd like to know how JFK, an Irish Catholic fits into this.

@haterboy19888

4 күн бұрын

Me too

Van Buren is supposedly related to King John. I forget how, but you have to go back to King Johns mother or grandmother or something. I don't know if it's TRUE but it would be interesting if it is. Side project maybe?

@mikejunt

2 жыл бұрын

There was a discussion of this in the 'who is the senior living heir of charlemagne?' video, but basically when you get back to 1000 years ago, you're almost certainly related to everyone who was living if there was the least intermarriage and transfer of people (especially considering illegitimate children). So finding a way to get to King John by going back generations past him is not particularly notable; even all the presidents short of Van Buren being descended from John is not really notable. One commentor in the Charlemagne thread noted she had traced her genealogy back to Charlemagne .. ten times over. Since the number of ancestors you have is exponential (2 parents, 4 grandparents, 8 great-grandparents, etc), by 30 or so generations you have a number larger than the number of people living at the time, and you will start to see a lot of repetitions. The only place you don't see this is between groups of people that didn't have regular interaction and intermarriage until the last few hundred years (like, say, people from Europe and people from China or Japan). So because of these waves of immigration it's more common to not have any distant relation between various people in the United States than it is in most of the world, because the United States hasn't existed that long in a historical scale and because it's waves of immigration have come from very different parts of the world. Since the Presidents, to this point, have all had white European descent (even Obama on his mother's side), finding the distant European connection between them is not that remarkable, and in fact is fairly predictable. You can basically assume that you are related to everyone who lived 1000+ years ago in the region your family originated who has any living descendants. By 50 generations, your total number of grandparents exceeds the number of humans that have ever lived, so the same people start to appear many, many times.

@myrddinemrys1332

2 жыл бұрын

@@mikejunt Exactly 37 generations where you are generation 0 to surpass the amount of people whom have ever lived. 107 billion people is the rough estimate for total people who have lived and generation 37 (roughly 925 years ago assuming a generation is 25 years) would be 137 billion.

@just_radical

2 жыл бұрын

I had heard that it was one of John's older half sisters either Marie or Alix who married the Counts of Blois and Champagne. So All U.S. Presidents would be descendants of Eleanor of Aquitaine.

@yarazooom

2 жыл бұрын

KING JOHNS mother was Elenor of Aquitaine & father Henry II [Plantegent] son of Matilda granddaughter of William [the bastard] Conqueror 1066 descendant of Charlemange. PS altho kings & queens of England they were ALL French Normands who did not speak english. not a Englishman among them until EDWARD IV 1430 ? who married a ''common woman' Elizabeth Woodville, grand mother of HENRY VIII she was a distant descendent with French ancestors.

@just_radical

2 жыл бұрын

@@yarazooom i think Henry IV was the first one to speak English.

I'm curious. Do we know if any of the presidents (or their ancestors) knew their relationship to others while they were alive? I think that would be interesting to know.

@JohnGisMe

Жыл бұрын

John Quincy Adams knew his relationship to at least one other president while he was alive.

@mramisuzuki6962

Жыл бұрын

@@JohnGisMe kek

@pmaorpheus

Жыл бұрын

Yes, George W. Bush and Barak Obama know they are related. It wasn't talked about in this video.

Best explanation of the “removed” term ever.

Thx for this graph. I’ve been working on my family tree since i was bored and this has help a lot.

Imagine going back in time to show the top names like John Taylor this chart and recording their reactions

One major quibble: there's total uncertainty, despite numerous theories, about the ancestry of Lincoln's mother, Nancy Hanks. She wasn't even consistently known by that last name. So it's not justifiable to make her the link for her son to other presidents: from the records that have ever been turned up, her parentage-- and thus half of Abe's ancestry-- remains a complete mystery.

@maddienelson5645

2 жыл бұрын

it actually has been proven now through mitochondrial DNA testing that she was the daughter of lucy and granddaughter of ann, however her father is not known as she was illegitimate but the lineage used here is through her mother and grandmother

@nunyabiznez6381

2 жыл бұрын

@@maddienelson5645 Thank you for saving me hours of looking that one up to debunk. I had heard something similar a couple of years ago but couldn't remember where. I am Lincoln's 5th cousin 5 times removed on his father's and my father's side.

@limonesycafe8898

2 жыл бұрын

​@@maddienelson5645 That really only proves a direct link to her maternal line. She still has a grandmother whose mitochondrial DNA she doesn't carry, and thousands of ancestors that are unaccounted for.

@maddienelson5645

2 жыл бұрын

@@limonesycafe8898 you’re totally right! like I mentioned before her father is unknown my comment was mainly to address the question regarding the line used in the video which is through her maternal grandmother:)

@limonesycafe8898

2 жыл бұрын

@@maddienelson5645 👍

I recently found at that I am related to both the Roosevelts and John F Kennedy, one being on my grandmothers side and one on my grandfathers side.

This is a very interesting video. I just want to point out something about using the presidents' names. William Henry Harrison is always known as "William Henry Harrison" not "William Harrison." The name "James K. Polk" is also important to use instead of "James Polk." The same with Ulysses S. Grant and Dwight D. Eisenhower. Richard Nixon tried to style himself Richard M. Nixon, and that would be fine, but he is really mostly known simply as Richard Nixon. No harm done, of course; my suggestions are just the conventional ways those presidents names are used in U.S. history.

Fun fact: Van Buren was the first president not to speak English as a native language (Dutch). But he was the first American-born president. The pilgrims of the Mayflowers lived in Leiden (Netherlands) for many years. President Quinsy Adams studied in Leiden. His father John Adams also spent a lot of time in Leiden, seeking help for American independence. During the state visit of Bush senior, he even visited Leiden for a whole day. He visited the church where the pilgrims came and the Mayflower museum. A concert was also given. Normally, during state visits from American presidents, only Amsterdam and The Hague are visited.

Hey, I am a direct descendant of the Allertons and Cushmans through my Great Grandmother's family (Steadman). I did not realize they were also ancestors of my favorite president.

Fascinating 🤔

My mother's Grandfather Killeen was Irish Catholic American and a Louisiana state Senator who retired to Bay St. Louis Ms.

I just got my DNA results and I’m in the process of connecting my cousins to my family tree so I really love these types of topics.

@TEAMWHAT99

6 ай бұрын

Might want to have DNA tests with a few companies. Several people I know,have,and they had different results with dtheir DNA samples. For real.

What a wonderful chart BTW both Roosevelt did meet at Eleanor wedding Interestingly because TR filled in the role father of the bride because her real father passed away image both TR and FDR looking at each other directly.

@vampiregamingyt8754

2 жыл бұрын

FDR was obsessed with Teddy in his life time. It's probably the reason he married Eleanor

LOL, I love how you end by asking us to let you know if you have missed anything, as if I would ever now. Very interesting. However I think Mayflower qualifies as a ship, not a boat.