Sarah Palin Family Tree

Dowling Family Genealogy ^

[Brown Deer]

Sarah Palin is the 12th cousin of John McCain, 8th cousin of George W. Bush and 10th cousin of Barack Obama.

[Brown Deer]

Are you related?

[2ndDivisionVet]

My half brother is a tin-foiler. He thinks all presidents have to be of the “reptilian” bloodline, like David Icke and that crew.

[Ancient Drive]

if we go far enough down the genealogy tree, we are all brothers.

[FlingWingFlyer]

Good answer! ;o)

[apt4truth]

I saw no data that said this there. Where are you getting your info from?

[Ben Reyes]

“if we go far enough down the genealogy tree, we are all brothers.”

I am so glad you said ‘brothers’. I’d never be able to accept connection with that paragon of feminine beauty and grace Helen Thomas.

[Domandred]

Don’t think so but I can track my degrees of seperation to Bill Clinton. Three people. Gives me the willies sometimes when I think about it.

[Brown Deer]

You don't see the data? Click on the "Pedigree" for each one. You can then click on "Display pedigree in text format" to see the extended pedigree for each person.

[Crazieman]

Yikes.

Unfortunately my family line is totally screwed up, including lots of legal name changes. I can’t track mine past grandpa.

[Vigilanteman]

Kool! Famous relatives of John Strong (1585-1613), common ancestor to Sarah Palin and Revolutionary War hero Nathan Hale, to whom I am also related.

[Uriah_lost]

Can anyone tell me why it’s Van Palin? Is there some naming protocol or was it just a choice they made? I’d be willing to bet that that incongruity is what got this idiotic speculation about the child’s parentage got started.

[Brown Deer]

Direct Descendants of Simon Newcomb

1 Simon NEWCOMB b: Bet. 1665 - 1666 Edgarton, Dukes Co., MA d: Jan 20, 1744/45 Lebanon, New London Co., CT
.... +Deborah b: Abt. 1664 Edgarton, Dukes Co., MA d: Jun 17, 1756 Lebanon, New London Co., CT m: Abt. 1687 Edgarton, Dukes Co., MA
2 Thomas NEWCOMB b: Feb 01, 1690/91 Edgarton, Dukes Co., MA d: Abt. 1761 Pleasant Valley, Dutchess Co., NY
....... +Judith WOODWORTH b: 1701
... 3 Judith NEWCOMB b: May 21, 1733 Lebanon, New London Co., CT d: Aug 31, 1808
......... +James LIVINGSTON b: Mar 29, 1728 Esopus, Ulster Co., NY d: Jun 02, 1790 Kingston, Ulster Co., NY m: Nov 11, 1751 Poughkeepsie, Dutchess Co., NY
...... 4 Gilbert James LIVINGSTON b: Oct 14, 1758 Poughkeepsie, Dutchess Co., NY d: Apr 07, 1833 Rome, Oneida Co., NY
............ +Susannah LEWIS b: Mar 25, 1761 Poughkeepsie, Dutchess Co., NY m: Feb 28, 1779 Troy, Rensselaer Co., NY
......... 5 Judith LIVINGSTON b: Sep 04, 1785 Poughkeepsie, Dutchess Co., NY d: Feb 28, 1858 Columbus, Franklin Co., OH
............... +Samuel Herrick BUTLER b: Feb 12, 1785 Bennington, Bennington Co., VT d: Dec 13, 1851 m: Jun 26, 1806 Waterford, Saratoga Co., NY
........... 6 Courtland Philip Livingston BUTLER b: Mar 08, 1813 Clinton, NY d: Aug 09, 1891 Columbus, Franklin Co., OH
.................. +Elizabeth Slade PIERCE b: Mar 22, 1822 Providence, Providence Co., RI d: Mar 01, 1901 Columbus, Franklin Co., OH m: Dec 16, 1840 Buffalo, NY
.............. 7 Mary Elizabeth BUTLER b: Jul 15, 1850 Columbus, Franklin Co., OH d: Jan 16, 1897 Columbus, Franklin Co., OH
.................... +Robert Emmet SHELDON b: Jun 01, 1845 Tiffin, OH d: Jan 21, 1917 Columbus, Franklin Co., OH m: Feb 24, 1869 Columbus, Franklin Co., OH
................. 8 [2] Flora SHELDON b: Mar 17, 1872 Franklin Co., OH d: Sep 04, 1920 Watch Hill, RI
....................... +[1] Samuel Prescott BUSH b: Oct 04, 1863 Brick Church, NJ d: Feb 08, 1948 Columbus, Franklin Co., OH m: Jun 20, 1894 Columbus, Franklin Co., OH
.................... 9 [3] Prescott Sheldon BUSH b: May 15, 1895 Columbus, OH d: Oct 08, 1972 New York, NY
.......................... +[4] Dorothy WALKER b: Jul 01, 1901 near Walker's Pt, York Co., Maine d: Nov 19, 1992 Greenwich, CT m: Aug 06, 1921 Kennebunkport, York Co., ME
...................... 10 [5] George Herbert Walker BUSH b: Jun 12, 1924 Milton, MA
............................. +[6] Barbara PIERCE b: Jun 08, 1925 Rye, Westchester Co., NY m: Jan 06, 1945 Rye, Westchester Co., NY
......................... 11 [7] George Walker BUSH b: Jul 06, 1946 New Haven, CT
2 Obadiah NEWCOMB b: Abt. 1695 Edgarton, Dukes Co., MA d: May 04, 1761
....... +Abigail
... 3 Daniel NEWCOMB b: Nov 19, 1729 Hebron, New London Co., CT d: Aft. 1789 Hebron, New London Co., CT
......... +Elizabeth MAY b: Dec 03, 1730 Wethersfield, Hartford Co., CT d: Aft. 1789 Hebron, New London Co., CT m: Abt. 1754 Wethersfield, Hartford Co., CT
...... 4 Lydia NEWCOMB b: Apr 28, 1763 d: Sep 14, 1835 Penfield, NY
............ +Timothy BUSH b: Apr 01, 1766 prob Lebanon, CT d: May 04, 1850 Rochester, NY m: Jul 26, 1791 Penfield, NY
......... 5 Obadiah Newcomb BUSH b: Jan 28, 1797 Vermont d: Abt. 1851
............... +Harriet SMITH b: May 12, 1800 Cambridge, NY d: Jun 21, 1867 Cincinnati, OH m: Nov 08, 1821 Rochester, NY
........... 6 James Smith BUSH b: Jun 15, 1825 Rochester, NY d: Nov 11, 1889 Ithaca, NY
.................. +Harriet Eleanor FAY b: Oct 29, 1829 Savannah, GA d: Feb 27, 1924 Boston, Suffolk Co., MA m: Feb 24, 1859 Trinity Church, New York, NY
.............. 7 [1] Samuel Prescott BUSH b: Oct 04, 1863 Brick Church, NJ d: Feb 08, 1948 Columbus, Franklin Co., OH
.................... +[2] Flora SHELDON b: Mar 17, 1872 Franklin Co., OH d: Sep 04, 1920 Watch Hill, RI m: Jun 20, 1894 Columbus, Franklin Co., OH
................. 8 [3] Prescott Sheldon BUSH b: May 15, 1895 Columbus, OH d: Oct 08, 1972 New York, NY
....................... +[4] Dorothy WALKER b: Jul 01, 1901 near Walker's Pt, York Co., Maine d: Nov 19, 1992 Greenwich, CT m: Aug 06, 1921 Kennebunkport, York Co., ME
.................... 9 [5] George Herbert Walker BUSH b: Jun 12, 1924 Milton, MA
.......................... +[6] Barbara PIERCE b: Jun 08, 1925 Rye, Westchester Co., NY m: Jan 06, 1945 Rye, Westchester Co., NY
...................... 10 [7] George Walker BUSH b: Jul 06, 1946 New Haven, CT
2 Benjamin NEWCOMB b: Abt. 1700 Edgartown, Dukes Co., MA d: Waterborough, Sunbury, New Brunswick, Canada
....... +Hannah CLARK d: Waterborough, Sunbury, New Brunswick, Canada
... 3 Lydia NEWCOMB b: Bef. Jun 20, 1731 d: Nov 16, 1808
......... +Justus SACKETT b: Mar 09, 1729/30 East Greenwich, CT d: Mar 16, 1815 m: 1757
...... 4 Lodema SACKETT b: Jan 02, 1767 Warren, Litchfield Co., CT d: Dec 05, 1857 Warren, Litchfield Co., CT
............ +Augustine CURTISS b: Nov 08, 1761 Warren, Litchfield Co., CT d: Sep 15, 1832 Warren, Litchfield Co., CT m: Mar 30, 1785 Warren, Litchfield Co., CT
......... 5 Homer CURTISS b: May 30, 1787 Connecticut d: Apr 30, 1886 Waverly, Morgan Co., IL
............... +Charity EVERETT b: Oct 16, 1790 Connecticut d: Dec 30, 1876 m: Oct 25, 1810
........... 6 Ora Miranda CURTISS b: Aug 15, 1811 Connecticut
.................. +Martin B. STRONG b: Bet. 1809 - 1810 Connecticut v .............. 7 [2] Homer Curtis STRONG b: Jan 30, 1849 Warren, Litchfield Co., CT d: Bet. 1910 - 1920
.................... +[1] Augusta Lodema GODFREY b: Jul 1854 Waverly, Morgan Co., IL d: Aft. 1920 m: Nov 04, 1879 Godfrey, Madison Co., IL
................. 8 [3] Cora STRONG b: Nov 04, 1886 Chippewa Co., WI
....................... +[4] James Carl GOWER b: Nov 1882 Wisconsin m: Bef. 1910
.................... 9 [5] Helen Louise GOWER b: Jan 22, 1910 Wisconsin d: Sep 12, 1985 Richland Co., WA
.......................... +[6] Clement J. SHEERAN b: Aug 30, 1907 Washington d: May 12, 1992 Richland Co., WA m: Dec 20, 1929 Pocatello, Bannock Co., ID
...................... 10 [7] Sarah SHEERAN b: Oct 1940
............................. +[8] Charles R. HEATH b: 1938 of Hope, Bonner Co., ID
......................... 11 [9] Sarah Louise HEATH b: Feb 11, 1964 Sandpoint, Bonner Co., ID
........... 6 Lodema CURTISS b: Oct 07, 1822 Litchfield Co., CT d: Sep 01, 1915 Godfrey, Madison Co., IL
.................. +James Ryder GODFREY b: Aug 29, 1818 Baltimore, MD d: Sep 07, 1881 Godfrey, Madison Co., IL m: Feb 22, 1842 Waverly, Morgan Co., IL
.............. 7 [1] Augusta Lodema GODFREY b: Jul 1854 Waverly, Morgan Co., IL d: Aft. 1920
.................... +[2] Homer Curtis STRONG b: Jan 30, 1849 Warren, Litchfield Co., CT d: Bet. 1910 - 1920 m: Nov 04, 1879 Godfrey, Madison Co., IL
................. 8 [3] Cora STRONG b: Nov 04, 1886 Chippewa Co., WI
....................... +[4] James Carl GOWER b: Nov 1882 Wisconsin m: Bef. 1910
.................... 9 [5] Helen Louise GOWER b: Jan 22, 1910 Wisconsin d: Sep 12, 1985 Richland Co., WA
.......................... +[6] Clement J. SHEERAN b: Aug 30, 1907 Washington d: May 12, 1992 Richland Co., WA m: Dec 20, 1929 Pocatello, Bannock Co., ID
...................... 10 [7] Sarah SHEERAN b: Oct 1940
............................. +[8] Charles R. HEATH b: 1938 of Hope, Bonner Co., ID
......................... 11 [9] Sarah Louise HEATH b: Feb 11, 1964 Sandpoint, Bonner Co., ID

[Mariebl]

Kool! Famous relatives of John Strong (1585-1613), common ancestor to Sarah Palin and Revolutionary War hero Nathan Hale, to whom I am also related.

Cousin! I'm descended in a direct line from Nathan Hale's brother. This is fun.

[Brown Deer]

very nice! When did they add the relationship finder? I never knew about that one.

[justlurking]

Can anyone tell me why it’s Van Palin?

The middle name Van, however, may have the most interesting origin. Gov. Palin joked with an Anchorage Daily News reporter that she and Todd have "always liked the middle name Van because, you know, growing up in the '80s, Van Palin (which rhymes with rock band Van Halen) would be a really cool name."

[ozzymandus]

How come nobody’s ever related to Benedict Arnold or John Wilkes Boothe? ;>)

[Salamander]

Shibumi...get in here quick!

It’s Ickes and Lizard Overlords again!!!!

[pops88]

I tease my husband that he’s a lizard. His family has a long line and when he gets tired, his eyes become slits. I can’t really talk though, since I’m a Mayflower descendant. I have some dry skin, but no scales I’ve found.

[Brown Deer]

Both George Bush and Sarah Palin are 4th cousins, several times removed of Benedict Arnold. So am I, lol.

[NavyCanDo]

I’m the 34th cousin of Bill Gates, surely he will remember me in his will.

[Aliska]

I won't say your research is wrong but question your sources which aren't given and without which your work is worthless. Actually I wrote to you on March 4th of this year because you have an elusive ancestor pair of mine, and you never answered my email, still have what I wrote in my sent file. A fellow in my Plantagenet group was intrigued with your work and wrote to you as well; he does very well-sourced work and his site is on rootsweb as well. So is mine. Independently I researched one of your names I was interested in several generations back and came up with transcripts of source records that indicated your data was either wrong or there was a conflict.

If you have any credible sources, they are not on your site. Mostly only dates are given, and many are missing as I work it further back. There was another fellow I wrote to who mirrored your site which, I believe, has since been taken down.

The ancestors of mine you have on there are Samuel Perry and Hannah Watkins. They were my 4th gr grandparents. I know how to navigate that site in different ways but don't know how to calculate relationships from there. If I work a line back and enter it into my genealogy program, I can calculate relationships.

You must have just added Sarah Heath Palin as it shows you updated it just today [2008-08-31 02:33:52 UTC (Sun)].

If your work happens to be correct, I am related to her as we have common ancestors, Thomas Carter and Mary Parkhurst, several generations back making us roughly 6th cousins give or take.

Are you tdowling_53223? I think so. Rootsweb hasn't even indexed Sarah Heath b 1964 yet which is normal for a recent update.

[Brown Deer]

Speaking of our cousin Bill Gates, our next vice-president is his 9th cousin. I don't see a relationship for her to Frank Zappa. It would seem that Moon Unit, Dweezil, Ahmet and Diva Muffin would get along great with Sarah's children Track, Bristol, Willow, Piper and Trig. ;-)

[Brown Deer]

You might want to look a bit closer because there are quite a few sources posted. For example: Clement J. SHEERAN, Helen Louise GOWER, Cora STRONG, James Carl GOWER, Arthur Collins GOWER...

Oh, you must be Alice - I just noticed that I have several e-mails from that day which I never read. I think that was about the time that I was in the hospital. I obviously still haven't finished catching up. :(

[Aliska]

You've also got my Benjamin Newberry and Mary Allyn on there. I've worked the Newberry line way back to the 9th century, actually found the genealogy at ancestry.com worked by a professional genealogist, not on their world family tree, so shouldn't take credit for that work. He was the 1st Earl of Warwick. You don't have his pedigree, not that there is a problem about that, can't get everybody in there. I would share that with you, but it's already on rootsweb several places.

/Thomas NEWBERRY b: 10 NOV 1594 d: DEC 1635 Benjamin NEWBERRY b: 1624 d: 11 SEP 1689 | /Christopher DABINOTT b: 3 FEB 1562/63 d: JUL 1637 \Joan DABINOTT b: ABT 1600 d: ABT 1629 \Johanna b: 1564 d: AFT 1624

Well it's fun to play with so I thank you for that.

[When do we get liberated?]

I am related to the guy that invented edible underwear....

[Aliska]

Yes, some of your more recent sources are posted, and I thought you might have much more in stacks of photocopies and papers/files offline, but it is just so much work to enter all that data in addition to all the names, dates and places and get them linked together properly. It's so late here, I'll have to look at it some more tomorrow, I switched out of gen mode for the summer and carry so much of it in my head in addition to my gen program, but if I don't work with it for awhile, I have to kind of refresh my memory and try to pick up where I left off.

Thank you for acknowledging my email. I thought you did say somewhere back then that you are sometimes too busy to answer emails. I figured with all that interesting info you must get deluged with people like me asking questions.

Sorry you were in the hospital. I will look at those names more closely. I'm just an amateur at this, and learned the hard way from my betters that I'd better be more careful about sourcing my information which I just copied and pasted early on. Now I try to be more careful, but have been informed that there are different categories of sources, like some old family notes of mine where I've hit a brick wall are just "clues", nothing more, wouldn't be accepted by professionals. Sometimes "clues" are all you get and are lucky to get those :-).

Nite. And thanks again. I am probably related to you, too lol. Not that I would wish that on anybody being related to me :-).

Oh that other guy who said he wrote you from the Plantagenet group is Kevin Bradford; he's got a lot more blue blood than I do :-). That's not why I got into this at all but you get so far back and start finding out things. I found out my sister is married to her 10th cousin. Lots of fun stories I've had with that, don't have any Mayflower ancestry myself nor ever found any connection to any presidents. One I can claim is Ethan Allen but only the cousin removed thing.

But if you are right, maybe there's a lot more for me there I didn't know about.

[endthematrix]

That means she's related to Vlad the Impaler and Lurch (the Kerry one) Oh, and IIRC either Prince Charles or the late Lady Di.

[Redcloak]

Everybody’s related to someone.

[ArmyTeach]

True. I followed my grandmother's line back and found that Thomas Jefferson’s aunt married into our family line. Would have made him some sort of cousin. Relevant to absolutely nothing, but it gives me a feeling of visceral connection and appreciation of the achievement of our founding fathers.

[shibumi]

"My half brother is a tin-foiler. He thinks all presidents have to be of the “reptilian” bloodline, like David Icke and that crew."


This is, in fact the case, as it was revealed to me during my last visit (abduction) with the Nordics from the Pleiades. While on their ship they shared with me the filmbooks they had made that documented the shape-shifting Human/Reptilian Hybrids and their plan to conquer the world through the usurpation of all Republican forms of government.

This plan is carried out with the aid of the Illuminati and the Roman Catholic Church in secret coven with 33rd degree Masons worldwide.

The complete outline of this plan, complete with infant human sacrifice, blood-drinking rituals and eyewitness accounts of George Bush turning into a fanged mud-puppy can be found in my new book, not available in stores, but yours for three easy payments of $19.95 (plus S&H). This is payable in US currency which I will accept despite the fact that it will soon be rendered worthless by the carefully orchestrated crash of the worldwide economy, masterminded by Dick Cheney and Halliburton.

OOPS! Gotta go! I just realized that the commercial break with Roseann Barr selling condominiums in Las Vegas is over and their back to speading the gospel of anthropogenic global warming on C2CAM.

[devolve]

[Daffynition]

HAHAHA! Delightful!!!

[NonValueAdded]

research bump

[devolve]

[pleikumud]

My dog is a descendent of Julius Caesar’s dog. :)-

[Aliska]

She's (Sarah) related to Princess Di through her Strong ancestry and on back. Work it back to Thomas Ford and Elizabeth Charde if you can, when the show pedigree in text format runs off the page by => indicating there's more, click on that symbol and do another pedigree>show in text format, some will deadend but many won't. For Sarah's, start with her, then click on the => for Jedediah Strong, then look for Thomas Ford and Elizabeth Charde. If I do a descendancy chart from that, I can't see it yet from the Dowling site, but I do have Sarah's line that way entered into my gen program. Thomas and Elizabeth had a daughter Abigail Ford from whom she is descended and down through Jedediah Strong (think he goes back to Mayflower ancestry, can't claim any Strongs for myself), also the daughter Joanna Ford (BrownDeer has her, too, but not linked as Abigail's sister, should have linked to person already in database, I've missed some that way, too) from whom I'm descended. Sarah's lineage the way I mentioned back further is verified by Gary Boyd Roberts, a New England genealogist, in one of his books, can't remember the exact title, American cousins of Princess Diana, can be found in a lot of libraries and was on amazon. So I can vouch for that much of it. I don't know if Roberts picked up Joanna Ford or not, need to track down that book myself, it wasn't on ancestry last time I looked but a couple other royal lineage books by him are there.

I see I'm probably related to Sarah through that also and some others I want to check out as well. And BrownDeer's recent sources are excellent as he pointed out to me last night, don't have time to log into ancestry and retrace his steps on that today.

So anyone who can trace their direct lineage back from her that way or any other names in that direct lineage will be related to her as well.

He's got enough on there to keep anyone occupied indefinitely. Much of it on there I do think he has taken from published genealogies. I think there are hundreds more of us out there who haven't worked their family history back far enough to make some of these connections.

BrownDeer, you've been a member since 1999, I since 2000, kind of a neat, would never have guessed you were a fellow FReeper!

Sarah's connection (cousin of some degree) to Princess Di is in this lineage, hope I got it all correctly:

Thomas Ford and Elizabeth Charde
Abigail Ford and Elder John Strong
Thomas Strong and Rachel Holton
Joseph Strong and Sarah Allen
Joseph Strong, Jr. and Elizabeth Strong
Benjamin Strong and Lucy Bishop
Dr. Joseph Strong and Rebecca Young
Eleanor Strong and John Wood
Ellen Wood and Frank Work
Frances Eleanor Work and John Burke Roche
Edmund Burke Roche and Ruth Sylvia Gill
Frances Burke Roche and Edward John Spencer
Diana Spencer (Princess Di)

Back to work on some of the other there.

[Vigilanteman]

My common ancestry to Nathan Hale is his 3rd great grandparents on his father's side, Samuel Cutter (1575-1637) and Elizabeth Leatherhead (1579-1664), so I guess that would make us 4th cousins.

I'm not sure how that would make us related to Sarah Palin, since her great-grandmother was a Strong, descended from Hale's mother's side. You would definitely be a cousin since John Strong is in your direct line too, but he isn't in mine (as far as I know).

Anyway, nice to meet you, cousin, and best of luck to your cousin and my cousin-in-law Mrs. Palin.

[SunkenCiv]

Maybe, just a little bit, looks like it, going back (let me think) five or six generations, rounding the corner, and coming back. ;’) Or maybe it’s more distant than that, frankly I didn’t look that close. Due to a bunch of my ancestral lines reaching back into early 17th century America, I’m related to, well, probably millions...

[SunkenCiv]

Okay... found another possible link... as I said, related to millions...

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Thanks for the ping....I need to figure out how to do this genealogical stuff...

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Good stuff.

[SunkenCiv]

Figuring out whether and how two people not on the same screen are related is, uh, difficult at best in that website. :’)

[Aliska]

Figuring out whether and how two people not on the same screen are related is, uh, difficult at best in that website. :’)

I don't think it can be done from the website (you can sketch out a a chart and I used to know how to figure it out the old way), so I carefully picked through that pedigree, entered all the relevant names in my genealogy program which has a relationship calculator, and if I entered it all correctly and if the data is correct, came up with Sarah is my 9th cousin once removed two different ways and 10th cousin once removed a third way, not real close.

Basically you have to find a common direct ancestor you share with Sarah or any of the others listed there from their pedigrees, work that line back down to the person of interest, work your line back down from the same common ancestor to you, then you can figure it out or have somebody do it for you. There are various (confusing to me) explanations of how to do it on the web, don't have any links for those.

[PhatHead]

But is she related to Michael Palin?

;-)

[potlatch]

Thank you devolve, very nice!

[ccmay]

I am related to Sarah by at least 8 different New England lines, including this Newcomb one. This is so cool!

-ccm

[ravinson]

After being inspired to do some research by a common surname I found through this thread, I was finally able to establish 2 kinships with Gov. Sarah Heath Palin (through the Willards and the Dunsters). One of the things that I initially admired about her was the lack of any Eastern Establishment background in her bio, but ironically I found that we're both related to three Harvard presidents.

And as for those people who don't think genealogy has much relevance, I tend to think that there is much more to it than just loose chromosomal ties and faded lessons passed down through the generations. The more I research it, the more I find uncanny coincidences of people and place.

[ccmay]

And as for those people who don't think genealogy has much relevance, I tend to think that there is much more to it than just loose chromosomal ties and faded lessons passed down through the generations. The more I research it, the more I find uncanny coincidences of people and place.

The people of the Mountain West, like Sarah and myself, are the leading edge of the westward migrations. Our ancestors were the most adventuresome and stubbornly independent of many generations, first in England and then in this country.

-ccm