While watching Sarah Palin and Alec Baldwin talking together Saturday night on SNL I couldn’t help wondering if they had any idea they are related to each other. Even though they are fairly distant cousins, because their first ancestral connection is back in the Royal Channel according to recorded history, they do actually share ancestors with each other.
We ran some outline reports of immigrant ancestors from the Family Forest® to see who else shares ancestors with Gov. Sarah Palin. There are some of her surprising family ties in the Thomas Emerson report (see PDF here. family-forest-outline-report-for-thomas-emerson), and more of them can be found in the other reports (William Arnold, Deacon Samuel Bass, Thomas Brigham, Zechariah/Zachariah Field, Surgeon John Greene, Stephen Post, Richard Sears, and Corporal Roger Wellington), which are available upon request.
Following are some tips for exploring the Thomas Emerson report. Sarah Palin: page 55
Hawaiian family ties
Cooke family of Bank of Hawaii, Molokai Ranch, etc.: pages 4-25
Waterhouse and Alexander families of Alexander and Baldwin: page 7
Atherton family of Atherton Foundation: page 8
Monty Richards family of Kahua Ranch: page 13
Cowell family of Kowali Farm: page 16
Other family ties (both for Sarah Palin, and also for her Hawaiian cousins)
Ford and Firestone heirs: page 2
Mitt Romney: page 37
Buffalo Bill Cody: page 41
President Taft: page 34
Astronaut Alan Shepard: pages 54-55
Famous Civil War Generals: page 57
Tennessee Williams: page 58
F. Scott Fitzgerald and Shirley Temple: page 59
President Fillmore: page 63
Bill Gates: page 67
Your Future, Your Past 
Well, Palin has English/Irish/Scottish ancestry, yes?
Family trees are fun but if you’re not Anglo it’s a lot tougher.
I’m Sicilian on my Dad’s side. He’s gone back to visit the town his Dad lived in. The village church has burned down, taking records with it, any number of times over the centuries. The family name has retained it’s spelling but that’s not much help. And of course, everyone kept naming their children after their relatives so how do you tell them apart?
On my Mother’s side her name is Weiss; the equivalent of Smith in Germany. Tracing her ancestry would be just as difficult. And who knows what records were destroyed or lost when Nurnberg was bombed?
If you’re English, Scottish or Irish or even French, genealogy is a hoot. If you’re not, you need a lot of money, time and experts. I don’t think your CD would do me much good. None of my ancestors would be on it.
So for some of us we have to look toward the future, building a tree now with what we know for our children to add to, rather than going back trying to figure out who is and is not related to us.
I know for sure I’m not related to any American President or any Royal family.
Thanks for responding, and I do have some good news for you. You have pleasant and enriching discoveries waiting for you, as you can see at
http://www.familyforest.com/faq.html
and http://www.familyforest.com/captainslog/57.html
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This just in from the Guardian UK Paper online:
“Palin ties to Hawaii”
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uslatest/story/0,,-7964105,00.html
USATODAY
Sarah Palin related to Alec Balwin
http://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/2008-10-30-3235348468_x.htm
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Sarah Palin and Alec Baldwin
Pictures of them here:
http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-10-13/look-whos-related/?cid=sexybeast:mainpromo3#gallery=835;page=2
“Her distant cousins include Bill Gates, Tennessee Williams, Mitt Romney, and Shirley Temple (that perkiness really did translate through the bloodline). The best connection of all may be outspoken liberal actor Alec Baldwin, who… ”
for the rest of the story and Family Forest connections from The Daily Best Gallery see:
http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-10-13/look-whos-related/?cid=sexybeast:mainpromo3#gallery=835;page=2
Here is a fan chart on Sarah Palin and her family ties and ancestors here:
http://www.familyforest.com/Ancestors_at_a_glance.html
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