{"id":81,"date":"2008-08-29T15:18:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-29T15:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogybank.com\/?p=81"},"modified":"2024-07-31T08:01:30","modified_gmt":"2024-07-31T12:01:30","slug":"congratulations-to-my-cousin-sarah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/congratulations-to-my-cousin-sarah.html","title":{"rendered":"Congratulations to my cousin Sarah Heath Palin!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Photo:<\/a>Genealogists will love the fact that the new Republican choice for Vice President – Sarah Heath Palin<\/a> is a descendant of multiple Mayflower passengers: John Tilley, John Howland, Stephen Hopkins, Elder William Brewster, Richard Warren and other well known New England families. <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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I am also descended from those Mayflower passengers …. so we’re cousins. <\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n
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She is also a descendant of the Rev. John Lathrop<\/a> – famous to genealogists as the “gateway” ancestor of many US Presidents, inventors, actors and celebrities. <\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n
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No doubt in the days ahead we will see stories of how she is related to our other cousins: George Bush, Queen Elizabeth, Barack Obama, John Kerry, Dick Cheney, George Washington, King George III, King Henry VIII, Abraham Lincoln and the list will go on and on. <\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n
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It’s a great day for genealogy!<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Genealogists will love the fact that the new Republican choice for Vice President – Sarah Heath Palin is a descendant of multiple Mayflower passengers: John Tilley, John Howland, Stephen Hopkins, Elder William Brewster, Richard Warren and other well known New England families.   I am also descended from those Mayflower passengers …. so we’re cousins. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12713],"tags":[938,1808,845,850,6,5291,848,682,1129,1036,12,5491,558,5508,1674,1829,16,847,5352,1074,1874,747,851,1689,846,481,660,494,1087],"class_list":["post-81","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genealogy-research-tips","tag-abraham-lincoln","tag-ancestor","tag-barack-obama","tag-bbc","tag-celebrities","tag-cousin","tag-dick-cheney","tag-england","tag-family","tag-genealogists","tag-genealogy","tag-george-bush","tag-george-washington","tag-henry-viii","tag-id","tag-in","tag-inventors","tag-john-kerry","tag-king","tag-mayflower","tag-ms","tag-new-england","tag-patsy-kensit","tag-president","tag-queen-elizabeth","tag-tv","tag-uk","tag-us","tag-washington"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99951,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions\/99951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}