Which Presidents Are Related?

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For the purposes of this video, “closely related” means they at least had to be 8th cousins.

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And finally, let everyone know how closely you are related to Presidents! There is a prize for the relative who is the closest.

[lazyeyestv]

Mr. Beat being related to Dwight D. Eisenhower is one of the coolest Mr. Beat facts, along with being cousins with Useful Charts!

[chance_ondriezek]

At this rate, Mr. Beat will never run out of president-related videos.

[palacefan]

Imagine being related to one of the best ever presidents. Congrats Mr Beat.

[michaelmilam]

Wait a minute. Are you telling me George W. Bush and George H. W. Bush are related???? I never would have guessed!

[cleoalexander]

2:19 The fact that Martin Van Buren is related to the Roosevelt shouldn’t be surprising because both families are descended from some of the original Dutch settlers

[jackmessick]

Calvin Coolidge is my third cousin, twice removed. I met his surviving son when I was a boy, in the late 1960s. My Great-grandmother had gone to Normal School and was Calvin Coolidge's teacher for a year in Plymouth Notch, VT.

I remember reading a Ripley's Believe It or Not! about FDR being related to the most other Presidents, and it looks like he has added a few.

[russbear]

I'm glad that Mr. Beat is encouraging people to dig a little bit into their family history. It's a fun way to learn about history. If you keep digging you'll see that your family was impacted by history one way or another. History touches everyone. I'll never forget one of the first discoveries I made when I started doing genealogy: It was my grandpa's cousin. He was a highly decorated hero of WWII. No one in the family ever spoke of him. Not a single word. It was probably too painful. So it was weird when I dug a little deeper and discovered his amazing story: My grandpa's cousin and his pilot were the last two American servicemen to die during the Battle of Midway. They were shot down while attacking a Japanese battleship. They scored a hit, setting the ship ablaze and killing about 500 Japanese sailors. The following year the Navy honored my grandpa's cousin and his pilot by naming two brand new destroyer escort ships after them. The ships were the USS Griswold and the USS Bunch. When you discover stories like this WWII becomes more than just stale facts in a dry history book. Your family lived it and suffered through it. History has more meaning.

[DylanPattyn]

My Masters Thesis was on this very topic. It was titled "The Taft/Ohio Connection" I never could decide which of the two to name it but if my advisor hadn't left my school for Columbia I would have finished it and I bet it would have been great.

[emir_manutd]

Another episode of great, educational, and wonderful content by mr.beat

[TPChatter]

All I knew before hand were the Adams', Roosevelts, Harrison's, Bush's and Taylor and Madison being second cousins. Therefore, this video was very interesting to me, I had no idea how related these presidents were.
This also makes me think about which president(s) I'm related to. I could see my grandpa being related to like 15 presidents. He also looks a lot like Ike, if that means anything.

[MothOnFire]

My closest president relative is Lincoln, who is my 2nd cousin seven times removed. Using the 8th cousin rule I'm closely related to 21 of the US presidents.

[melliott]

Mr beat. This was a great video. I’m happy to say I’ve taken the afternoon off on Monday just to listen to you and Chris talk about our president’s… man that’s gonna be a good one lol.

[adkredmen]

Mr. Beat's content is very weirdly addicting.

[SlimeytubeDude]

Considering I'm Hispanic, my relation to any president probably goes back to ancient times

[EforEvery]

I'm so early that UsefulCharts' video isn't up yet. Great video cousin Matt!

[ShadowShark]

I got an idea for a video Mr. Beat. You should make a video talking about what the presidents have done after their time in office. I am curious to know what they do after their time as president.

[JamesSchafferr]

Just wanna say, I look forward to all of your videos. They scratch the former AP student part of my brain (:

[prettypic]

This is a great example of how connected we all are. go into geology and you're sure to find at least some people you've heard of before (for example, i'm 2nd cousins 4 times removed with Ty Cobbs).

[jimmyz]

Ever thought of doing a video of every President’s favourite book and/or movie?