I imagine he has over 10,000 cousins named just by the name of Bush (or at least Pierce, since the chart doesn't trace to the immigrant Bush). The total number of his American cousins would be more like a million, since he would have thousands for each of many colonial ancestors by other surnames. The number of cousins is highly sensitive to fertility rates, which roughly halved over the last century. I suspect the average number of living cousins per colonial immigrant couple is currently stagnant, perhaps even declining among descendants of Dutch and English colonial immigrants. Chris On 3/2/07, Jean Bout <jeanboute@yahoo.com> wrote: > > In George W. H. Bush's 1988 campaign for presidency speech in New York > City, he said that since his ancestors arrived in America in 1600s, he had > over 10,000 cousins. He is right. (When I entered college, I saw some > students's surnames that belong to my Dutch ancestors. I got in contact with > them. Violà, they, indeed, are my distant cousins! ) What > is the original spelling of George W. H. Bush's surname? Is it Dutch? > > Jean Boutcher > JeanBout@Juno.com > JeanBoute@Yahoo.Com > > > > Doris Waggoner writes: Just goes to show everybody's related to > everybody. Does that make our > work fruitless? I didn't mean that. > Doris > > > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > DUTCH-COLONIES-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

One of the things I notice after doing extensive research into my family tree is how many people in general I am "related" to even if in a distant way. My tree has some long known branches and naturally, many famous people. And it got me thinking how we are all really interrelated but do not know it or understand it. If you have an ancestor from say 900 AD and you calculate how many theoretical ancestors you would have in that generation, it exceeds the number of people living in that year on earth! Oh to be sure I think of myself as an American with Hollander ancestry but going back further, I have German and French roots that made their way to the Netherlands and I am sure going back further somewhere else. Oh by the way, George H. Bush and I share a common ancestor, an English one at that. And like the poster before me pointed out probably millions are related to him distantly but do not know it. Edward Otte -----Original Message----- From: dutch-colonies-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:dutch-colonies-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Chris Schopfer Sent: Saturday, March 03, 2007 12:02 AM To: dutch-colonies@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [DUTCH-COLONIES] George H. W. Bush I imagine he has over 10,000 cousins named just by the name of Bush (or at least Pierce, since the chart doesn't trace to the immigrant Bush). The total number of his American cousins would be more like a million, since he would have thousands for each of many colonial ancestors by other surnames. The number of cousins is highly sensitive to fertility rates, which roughly halved over the last century. I suspect the average number of living cousins per colonial immigrant couple is currently stagnant, perhaps even declining among descendants of Dutch and English colonial immigrants. Chris On 3/2/07, Jean Bout <jeanboute@yahoo.com> wrote: > > In George W. H. Bush's 1988 campaign for presidency speech in New York > City, he said that since his ancestors arrived in America in 1600s, he had > over 10,000 cousins. He is right. (When I entered college, I saw some > students's surnames that belong to my Dutch ancestors. I got in contact with > them. Violà, they, indeed, are my distant cousins! ) What > is the original spelling of George W. H. Bush's surname? Is it Dutch? > > Jean Boutcher > JeanBout@Juno.com > JeanBoute@Yahoo.Com > > > > Doris Waggoner writes: Just goes to show everybody's related to > everybody. Does that make our > work fruitless? I didn't mean that. > Doris > > > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > DUTCH-COLONIES-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to DUTCH-COLONIES-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

<If you have an ancestor from say 900 AD and you calculate how many theoretical ancestors you would have in that generation, it exceeds the number of people living in that year on earth!> The reason, of course, is that we have multiple lines from the same ancestors. For me, this applies even as recently as the 17th century. Besides my Dutch colonial roots, I'm also descended from the first settlers of the Massachusetts and Plymouth Bay colonies. When I look at my forebears who settled Nantucket, approximately 10 families in the beginning, some of them already related, I have multiple lines of descent from all of them. Leslie Hope

George W is my cousin through Walter Woodworth of Situate Mass. He is my ninth cousin. Also couisn to Bess Truman, President James Madison, maybe Taylor also, but I haven;'t worked on that. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Schopfer" <cjschopfer@gmail.com> To: <dutch-colonies@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, March 02, 2007 11:01 PM Subject: Re: [DUTCH-COLONIES] George H. W. Bush >I imagine he has over 10,000 cousins named just by the name of Bush (or at > least Pierce, since the chart doesn't trace to the immigrant Bush). The > total number of his American cousins would be more like a million, since > he > would have thousands for each of many colonial ancestors by other > surnames. > > > The number of cousins is highly sensitive to fertility rates, which > roughly > halved over the last century. I suspect the average number of living > cousins > per colonial immigrant couple is currently stagnant, perhaps even > declining > among descendants of Dutch and English colonial immigrants. > > Chris > > On 3/2/07, Jean Bout <jeanboute@yahoo.com> wrote: >> >> In George W. H. Bush's 1988 campaign for presidency speech in New York >> City, he said that since his ancestors arrived in America in 1600s, he >> had >> over 10,000 cousins. He is right. (When I entered college, I saw some >> students's surnames that belong to my Dutch ancestors. I got in contact >> with >> them. Violà, they, indeed, are my distant cousins! ) What >> is the original spelling of George W. H. Bush's surname? Is it Dutch? >> >> Jean Boutcher >> JeanBout@Juno.com >> JeanBoute@Yahoo.Com >> >> >> >> Doris Waggoner writes: Just goes to show everybody's related to >> everybody. Does that make our >> work fruitless? I didn't mean that. >> Doris >> >> >> >> >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> DUTCH-COLONIES-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without >> the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > DUTCH-COLONIES-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > >