News about the ins and outs of the president of the United States, many say the talent possessed by the president of the United States Since most come from the same ancestor, many U.S.citizens who are still allied with the family of the president or former president.

No wonder if Obama is relatively much Brad Pitt, while Hillary Clinton related to Angelina Jolie.

Barack Obama’s kinship with Brad Pitt revealed some time ago, through a search site Ancestry.com family tree. In addition to Brad Pitt, this site also reveals Obama’s kinship with a number of celebrities in the land of Uncle Sam.

One of the famous figures who still have a kinship with Obama is none other than his own political rival, Sarah Palin. Obama and Palin is cousins level 11, from a common ancestor named John Smith who lives in Massachusetts in the 17th century.

With former President George W Bush, Obama is the cousin of the level of 11 which means have been separated as much as 11 generations. Meanwhile, the wife of former Vice President Dick Cheney, Lynne Cheney, Obama also has the same degree of kinship that is 11 generations.

Sarah Palin is itself a distant relative of former U.S. president to-32, Franklin D. Roosevelt from ancestor named John Lothrop. ancestor is a man born in England in 1584 and died in Massachusetts in 1653. A Pennsilvania genealogist, Kimberly Powell said if it is not unusual among U.S. citizens who are related to each other.

According to him, at least 100 million U.S. population reached 300 million, has a kinship with 1 or more family president or former president.

“If someone has a parent who is an immigrant from England in the early days of occupation, most likely the individual is relatively far from one of the former president,” Kimberly said as quoted by genealogy.about.com, Tuesday (09 / 11 / 2010) .

Kimberly added, most of the former U.S. president has a kinship with one of the members of the royal family in Europe. Because it would not be surprised if the Ancestry.com genealogy is also able to connect 2 female flawless in image, Sarah Palin with the late Princess Diana.

Risk of marriage between relatives

Disclosure of kinship among U.S. citizens on the one hand to prevent the occurrence of marriage between close relatives. Risk of marriage between close relatives is the difficulty of preventing disease caused by genetic disorders, as experienced by European royalty in the past.

However produce genetic risk of defective offspring not only result from matings between close relatives. Ethnicity or race on this earth if mated to produce offspring which are also at high risk of health problems.

The biggest risk of inter-ethnic marriages are generally triggered by differences in rhesus blood group. When a woman married a rhesus negative rhesus positive, problems will arise if the child produced rhesus positive.

With rhesus negative mothers will form antirhesus can go into the fetal red blood cells. If that happens, then the risk of fetal death while still in the womb.