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| VIDEO:
Genealogical service makes national
election news |
November
3, 2008 - Waikoloa, Hawaii
VIDEO: David Corrigan
A Big Island couple
who operate a genealogy
service has been making headlines throughout
the election season. They have even
managed to link this year's presidential
candidates, Barack Obama and John McCain,
to a common ancestor, which is no stranger
to having its descendants lead America.
Bruce and Kristine Harrison, who founded
the Family Forest Project in 1995, have
been popping up in news newarticles
all over the world, as the ancestral
histories they have mapped keep revealing
interesting tidbits about the backgrounds
of world leaders, past and present.
In
this interview, the Harrisons show how
the resource they created works, and
how a new finding reveals that presidential
candidates Barack Obama and John McCain
are related through Sulgrave Manor,
which is also the ancestral home of
George Washington.
Recently, an AP article detailed the
link, uncovered by the Harrisons, between
Republican vice presidential candidate
Sarah Palin and recent Saturday Night
Live costar, Alec Baldwin. According
to Harrison, they are "fairly distant
cousins". Palin was also found
to have ancestral connections to several
prominent Hawaii families, such as the
Cooke family of Bank of Hawaii, the
Atherton family, and Monty Richards
of Kahua Ranch.
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