The mormon church is a great start for tracing your geneology and its free....Was able to trace one branch back to the 1700's but only one branch....its like you have 2 parents 4 grandparents 8 grandparents etc. so we are probably all related to each other far enough back and I'm ticked I didn't inherite the money or good looks of some of my ancestors, assumeing they had good looks...or money.
He had the IQ to be one, but they'd more likely use him as one of their living stage props.
In almost every Presidential campaign, some genealogist will release a chart showing that the opposing candidates are nth cousins or are both related to George Washington or to Abraham Lincoln.