New
York
(ANI):
If
Barrack
Obama
becomes
the
next
US
Prez,
then
actor
brad
pitt
would
have
a
distant
cousin
in
the
White
House
and
if
Hillary
Clinton
gets
the
vote,
then
Angelina
Jolie
will
have
a
distant
cousin
in
office,
say
genealogists.
According
to
researchers
at
the
New
England
Historic
Genealogical
Society,
Barack
Obama
is
a
distant
cousin
of
brad
pitt
while
Hillary
Clinton
is
related
to
Angelina
Jolie,
Madonna,
Alanis
Morissette,
and
Celine
Dion.
The
researchers
found
that
Pitt
and
Obama
are
ninth
cousins,
linked
by
Edwin
Hickman,
who
died
in
Virginia
in
1769.
Clinton
and
Jolie,
meanwhile,
are
ninth
cousins,
twice
removed
because
they
are
both
related
to
Jean
Cusson
who
died
in
St.
Sulpice,
Quebec,
in
1718.
"When
you
get
back
into
your
ancestry,
you
eventually
find
that
you're
related
to
lots
of
people," the
New
York
Daily
News
quoted
genealogist
Christopher
Child,
who
guided
the
presidential
research
for
the
New
England
Historic
Genealogical
Society,
as
saying.
"Presidential
candidates
are
no
exception,"
he
added.
The
study
was
based
entirely
on
vital
records
kept
by
cities,
counties
and
towns.
Clinton,
who
is
of
French-Canadian
descent
on
her
mother's
side,
is
also
a
distant
cousin
of
singers
Madonna,
Celine
Dion
and
Alanis
Morissette,
the
research
found.
Obama,
the
son
of
a
white
woman
from
Kansas
and
a
black
man
from
Kenya,
can
call
six
U.S.
Presidents,
including
George
W.
Bush,
his
cousins.
Meanwhile,
Republican
Presidential
hopeful
Senator
John
McCain
is
a
sixth
cousin
of
First
Lady
Laura
Bush.
"It
shows
that
lots
of
different
people
can
be
related;
people
you
wouldn't
necessarily
expect," Child
said.
Obama
has
the
most
prolific
presidential
lineage,
featuring
Democrats
and
Republicans.
His
distant
cousins
include
President
George
W.
Bush
and
his
father,
George
H.W.
Bush,
as
well
as
Gerald
Ford,
Harry
S
Truman
and
James
Madison.