Posted on 10/31/2004 4:34:00 PM PST by MD_2_BE
Oct. 31, 2004
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- President Bush and John Kerry are not only distant cousins -- they can be traced back to Count Dracula.
That's according to Provo's reputable genealogical research company MyFamily-dot-com.
The search firm says both presidential candidates are loosely related through as many as 34 generations to the man who became known as Count Dracula.
He was born in 1431 as Prince Vlad the third, and he ruled southern Romania for a time.
MyFamily-dot-com says it showed the bloodthirsty warlord's connection to modern times have a little fun before Halloween.
But the company insists it's NOT making this up -- Bush and Kerry and thousands of others descended from County Dracula's family.
If researchers could trace back relations to the dawn of human history, they could show that everybody's related to everybody.
(Copyright 2004 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
Happy Halloween!
Thanks.
I just saw a clip of Kerry giving a speech on tv. I take such great solace in the fact that there is a good chance I will never have to hear his lame f'n voice again...
...the alternative... shudder...
What's next?? they are linked to the Easter Bunny?
The Democrat contolled media can come up with this crap but they don't bother to discuss Kerry's anti-war activities or his non-existent senate record. Some "free press".
Too right! Their "investigative" abilities seem to have limits - at least where the records of Dems are concerned.
Count Dracula was a fictitious character. The claim that Vlad was the basis for Dracula has been shot down, too. Knucklehead writer.
Using that internet service, I found out that I am related to Pocahontas. Unfortunately, the genealogy said that her husband was John Smith. Unfortunately, though, John Smith had a romantic relationship with Pocahontas only in the Disney film--not in real life.
These internet genealogies tend to be erroneous more often than they are accurate.
How about Frankenberry?
Well, I will give you credit, at least this is not another POLL THREAD.
lol
Cousin Lurch comes from Boston as well, and John Edwards is Eddie Munster grown up. Oh and do not forget, James carvelle is Uncle fester, while Bill Maher is Cousin IT with a haircut.
Michael Moore is the Blob, from which they all evolved.
Ops4 God BLess America!
I'm a Genealogist and that web site is the
worst! It's not worthy of a mention.
Oh for pity sakes!
Thanks.
Do you have a macro to type that out, or do you have to type it every...single...time...? :)
"Count Dracula was a fictitious character."
But so is kerry's character - wholly fictitious, with the sole exception of the selfish part, which is real.
Cut-n-paste is the only way to go...;-)
The Democrat contolled media can come up with this crap. Um... actually, I think it was the British, who are obsessed with geneology.
That being the case, I can only hope that the POTUS will impale Kerry by at least one electoral vote.
Could be.
Their descent from Vlad is indirect, through Vlad's family, not directly from him. That linkage is through their kinship to the British Royal Family so they are also all direct discendants of the god Odin.
And of course Kerry is a direct descendant of The Profit, Mohammed.
So9
Hey ya toots..
LOL that's a good one....Mohammed.
Fortunately one then had a bunch of children and most of the prominent families of Virginia are descended from Pocahontas. One was Robert E. Lee.
BTW, I am also supposed to be related to Pocahontas.
LOL, One of my cats has abnormally long fangs, he must be a distant relation to Count Dracula's cat. BTW, my cats nickname is Count Chocula.
In Leftspeak, a tabloid story like this poking fun at both candidates is code for: our guy blew it with flying colors! Royally blew it!!!
or
Scary thought!
Happy Halloween!
Ewww. You're descended from a girl!?!?!?
Sorry. It was the dumbest thing I could think of to say.
Muwuhahahahahahah!!!
It's actually true.
Burke's Peerage reported it as part of their normal write up on American Presidential Contenders.
So9
Well, my family are direct descendants of Aaron, the brother of Moses.
Most European royalty are related to the Prophet Mohammed though a Morroccan renegade prince who married a Hapsburg back in... whenever. The late Moroccan King used to tease the Euros by starting his letters, "Dear Cousins". It seems that every election, the monarchist types start finding all kinds of connections to all kinds of royals, and every European country finds some connection to themselves (there was a big thread on here about the Bush family's "French connection" a day or so back).
A Biblical literalist friend of mine used to claim that since we were all related to Adam and Eve anyway, racist and other anti-anybody thinking was violating the 4th commandment. I'm no Biblical literalist, but I second that thought.
I read an interesting article a while back which said a large number of American Presidents, something like half, were descended from a hardly known 17th (or was it 18th?) century preacher.
Count Taxula and algore
I've got Indian blood in me somehow, but it isn't Pocahontas.
Maybe more related than that. Genetic findings indicate that everyone who lived before about 3500 BC was either an ancestor of everyone living, or else has no modern descendants.
So9
Man is this one going to give the one world order folks a lot to talk about.
"...as many as 34 generations to the man who became known as Count Dracula... born in 1431..."
20 years to the generation (which is pretty rabbit-like) gives 680 years, this is 573. Must have relied on the online version of the LDS database. ;')
If I'd lived back then, I think I would have wanted relations with Pocahontas. [oink alert! oink alert!]
George W. Bush will be reelected by a margin of at least ten per cent
Yeah, but, one became a vampire and the other one became a vampire killer.
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After all, the last time the Muslims were really serious about fighting jihad, Vlad Tepec sent Mehmet the Conqueror back to the newly conquored Constantinople with his tail between his legs after he saw the treatment of the Turkish prisoners and dead. Vlad is one of those we can thank for the defense of Christendom, along with Charles Martel, St. Lazar and those who fell with him on the Field of Kosovo, the Emperor Leo the Isaurian who stablized the Imperial frontier against the first Muslims onslaught, the Venetian and Spanish admirals and sailors at Lepanto, the defenders of Vienna and the Polish relief column which saved the city.
After all, the last time the Muslims were really serious about fighting jihad, Vlad Tepec sent Mehmet the Conqueror back to the newly conquored Constantinople with his tail between his legs after he saw the treatment of the Turkish prisoners and dead. Vlad is one of those we can thank for the defense of Christendom, along with Charles Martel, St. Lazar and those who fell with him on the Field of Kosovo, the Emperor Leo the Isaurian who stablized the Imperial frontier against the first Muslims onslaught, the Venetian and Spanish admirals and sailors at Lepanto, the defenders of Vienna and the Polish relief column which saved the city.
C'mon folks, let's have things in perspective. Being related to Vlad Tepec, sometimes surnamed Dracula, as a diminitive of his father's honorific surname Dracul (= the Dragon) might be regarded as a good thing these days.Wow... this is the weirdest election in my lifetime. Since both candidates supposedly have a connection to the Count, I guess the undecided vampire vote will go to... Nadar?
This could explain why the debate rules specified no mirrors.
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