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Brian Roemmele, Alchemist & Metaphysician
107 votes by Jay Best, David Jacobs, Lou Davis, (more)
Yes, every President is related, except one, and it is not who most people guess.
How the Work of a 12-Year-Old Girl Uncovered a Historical Oddity
It started with an American 12-year-old girl’s desire to trace her own heritage back to France. Along the way, she discovered that every single US President (exceptMartin Van Buren) are relatively closely related to just one man.
BridgeAnne d'Avignon, now 14 years old, genealogy researcher.
Meet BridgeAnne d'Avignon (http://www.santacruzsent
Her work started when she was just 10 years old when she discovered her Grandfather’s genealogy software and challenged herself with a simple question: “How many US Presidents are related?” The answer was an astounding coincidence.
Academic genealogists were more than shocked to discover that this association was in the historical record and overlooked by thousands of researchers. One of the secrets to BridgeAnne’s work was to trace the genealogy of both parents. She was not sure where the journey would lead her to, but pushed on for over two years of research.
Every US President Is Part of One Bloodline
The distant grandfather to all US presidents (except Van Buren) is King John "Lackland" Plantagenet (http://en.wikipedia.org/
King John "Lackland" Plantagenet
Not Part of Robin Hood’s Family
Born in December 24, 1166, King John has indirectly supplied all US presidents (again, except Van Buren). King John signed the Magna Carta in 1215, however, he never complied with its conditions and was known for his pettiness, spitefulness, and cruelty that helped give rise to the Robin Hood legends.
Beyond the work of now expert genealogy researcher BridgeAnne, dig just a little deeper and we find that Emperor Charlemagne (http://en.wikipedia.org/
Accomplishment
Everything I presented in this post came from the diligent research of BridgeAnne. I want to honor her amazing work that would be a great accomplishment by anyone of any gender or age. However, I must point out that BridgeAnne's research seems to bring out pettiness, spitefulness in some experts, not to the soundness of her research, it is quite sound, but more of a immature comment about her or how her months of research is "nothing new". This is a sad treatment of any great researcher and does very little to encourage others to challenge the Status Quo.
Data Is Useless Without Wisdom
The age of the Internet yields a great deal of information democratically to everyone connected. Data is useless without insights. Clearly we are awash with endless data and profoundly less empirical insights. It takes the work of great researchers, doing amazing work drawing perhaps unexpected insights to make sense of data.
This is the basis of wisdom and sometimes wisdom comes from unexpected places and can be found in a 12-year-old girl.
How the Work of a 12-Year-Old Girl Uncovered a Historical Oddity
It started with an American 12-year-old girl’s desire to trace her own heritage back to France. Along the way, she discovered that every single US President (exceptMartin Van Buren) are relatively closely related to just one man.
Meet BridgeAnne d'Avignon (http://www.santacruzsent
Her work started when she was just 10 years old when she discovered her Grandfather’s genealogy software and challenged herself with a simple question: “How many US Presidents are related?” The answer was an astounding coincidence.
Academic genealogists were more than shocked to discover that this association was in the historical record and overlooked by thousands of researchers. One of the secrets to BridgeAnne’s work was to trace the genealogy of both parents. She was not sure where the journey would lead her to, but pushed on for over two years of research.
Every US President Is Part of One Bloodline
The distant grandfather to all US presidents (except Van Buren) is King John "Lackland" Plantagenet (http://en.wikipedia.org/
Not Part of Robin Hood’s Family
Born in December 24, 1166, King John has indirectly supplied all US presidents (again, except Van Buren). King John signed the Magna Carta in 1215, however, he never complied with its conditions and was known for his pettiness, spitefulness, and cruelty that helped give rise to the Robin Hood legends.
Beyond the work of now expert genealogy researcher BridgeAnne, dig just a little deeper and we find that Emperor Charlemagne (http://en.wikipedia.org/
Accomplishment
Everything I presented in this post came from the diligent research of BridgeAnne. I want to honor her amazing work that would be a great accomplishment by anyone of any gender or age. However, I must point out that BridgeAnne's research seems to bring out pettiness, spitefulness in some experts, not to the soundness of her research, it is quite sound, but more of a immature comment about her or how her months of research is "nothing new". This is a sad treatment of any great researcher and does very little to encourage others to challenge the Status Quo.
Data Is Useless Without Wisdom
The age of the Internet yields a great deal of information democratically to everyone connected. Data is useless without insights. Clearly we are awash with endless data and profoundly less empirical insights. It takes the work of great researchers, doing amazing work drawing perhaps unexpected insights to make sense of data.
This is the basis of wisdom and sometimes wisdom comes from unexpected places and can be found in a 12-year-old girl.
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5 votes by Tim O'Neill, John DeMarchi, Josef Pospíšil, (more)
Good work on this girls part, though this has been known for years. There have been books written on it.
Here is a post I made on the subject in 2004:
http://forum.noblerealms.
This should not really serve as any surprise to certain people who have been looking into these things for a long time.
Here is a post I made on the subject in 2004:
http://forum.noblerealms.
This should not really serve as any surprise to certain people who have been looking into these things for a long time.
