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Comment by tootie

16 days ago

Sure, but that's probably still just sample bias of presidents all being at least mostly anglo-saxon. Probably everyone on the British Isles is related to King John.

Seems unlikely in the 1700’s we’re talking ~20 generations and a population of 8+ million. It’s more believable if we are talking genetics, but ancestry.com is working off of official records.