Cousins

Three of the sisters share a hobby of looking for dead people. I sub to several mailing lists where the topic of discussion is dead people. Some messages to these lists are good for a few laughs. At least once a month someone posts to the list trying to proove there grandmother was a Cherokee Indian Princess. It is invaribly Cherokee, not Okanioqan or Kiowa or Souix. Never Indian Prince or Indian Chief, always Princess. There idea has to come from Hollywood. Indian Societies, even the Cherokee, did not have Indian Princesses in their hierachy. The majority of Indian Societies were warrior societies. Women do not usually rise to leadership in warrior societies. It takes a hugh lack of intelligents to want to be a great warrior. Women do not qualify.

Anyway, a few days ago someone named Adams posted to the list that they thought they might be related to Pressident Adams. They said "I have found a possible ancestor of the President John Adams and his Son. So I went researching and I've heard that most presidents are related by cousin relationship." Being a helpful person, I answered that as with everyone, Presidents were someone's cousin, maybe not my cousin and maybe not your cousin, but someone's cousin.

If you want to know if you might be related to a famous person, you can go here:
http://www.genealogy.com/famousfolks/index.html

and type you surname in the search box. Try Powell, and you get many hits. Try Aday, Gaddy or Maples and you get none. Maybe Patsy is related to George Bush.