God bless the Mormons for their genealogical obsession. It's the gift that keeps on giving. During the campaign, we found out from wife Lynne that Barack Obama was distantly related to Dick Cheney, and now this, from the AP:
Read Full Article »A genealogist at the Utah-based Ancestry.com, Anastasia Tyler, said Obama and [Sarah] Palin are 10th cousins through a common ancestor named John Smith, a pastor and early settler in 17th-century Massachusetts. Obama is related to Smith through his mother, as is Palin, Tyler said.
