Fidel Posted November 10, 2006 Report Share Posted November 10, 2006 Maybe not news... but news to me, thought provoking. Genealogists link Bush, Kerry to Count Dracula; vampire vote up for grabs Paul Foy THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SALT LAKE CITY -- No one ever accused President Bush and John Kerry of being kissing cousins, but watch out -- they could bite. A Utah genealogical research company says both presidential candidates are loosely related through as many as 34 generations to Count Dracula, who was born in 1431 as Prince Vlad III of Wallachia and ruled southern Romania. MyFamily.com said Bush and Kerry are distant cousins who can be linked to the Transylvania dictator through the British House of Windsor. Want more proof? "Blood is a requirement in politics," said Beau Sharbrough, a genealogist for MyFamily.com, who couldn't be certain which candidate would take the vampire vote next week. "They'll be taking an interest in the election and watching it on their plasma TVs," said Sharbrough, former president of GENTECH, now part of the National Genealogy Society. MyFamily.com sketched a family tree from Count Dracula's family to Bush and Kerry through royal British families, including Prince Charles of Wales. The connection isn't direct, however. It was made through Count Dracula's brother, with the bloodthirsty sibling shown off to a side, apparently unmarried with no offspring of his own. But that's only because records are spotty; historians believe Count Dracula seduced "a lot of women," but they haven't been able to trace any of his offspring, Sharbrough said. Many political candidates can be shown to be related if records are available and "you look back far enough," said Sharbrough. He said if researchers could trace back relations to the dawn of human history, they could show "everybody's related to everybody." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Julian2 Posted November 11, 2006 Report Share Posted November 11, 2006 Vlad the impaler was a great fighter of Muslims too. His standard method of execution of prisoners was to sit them on a sharpened stake and let them slide down slowly. Probably wasn't much worse than a lot of other rulers around at the time or even a few around today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flashermac Posted November 11, 2006 Report Share Posted November 11, 2006 There's the story of Vlad and the Turkish ambassador who refused to remove his hat before him. Vlad ordered it nailed to his head. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dabbish Posted November 11, 2006 Report Share Posted November 11, 2006 they are both members of skull and bones Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flashermac Posted November 12, 2006 Report Share Posted November 12, 2006 Numbskulls and boneheads ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sayjann Posted November 14, 2006 Report Share Posted November 14, 2006 'including Prince Charles of Wales.' that's a funny one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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