Election 2008

The New England Historic Genealogical Society has discovered that Barack Obama is a ninth cousin to Brad Pitt. Even weirder, rival Hillary Clinton is kin to Pitt's girlfriend, Angelina Jolie. Pitt and Obama's common link is an American colonist named Edwin Hickman, who died in Virginia in 1769. Clinton and Jolie share some 17th century Quebecer ancestry with Jolie, making them ninth cousins, twice removed.

Improbably, 23/6 found a photographs of both ancestors, and the resemblance to their descendants is amazing.