A while ago, Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the USA# had 5,000 ancestors listed on his profile, the maximum that an unclaimed profile can have listed. After that, he only had 183 ancestors, suddenly, one day. Now he only has 131. What kind of vandalism is going on, that he's being disconnected from his ancestors?! What happened to them?!
My guess is that alot of people are being political here. I don't care. I'm related to him and to Obama so they're probably long distant cousins. To me family relations are family relations, good or bad. I'm also connected to Charlie Manson too. Another reason is that maybe with the merging/unmerging of family connections get lost.
There is no path between us. But because you are so interested in genealogy we are family. Have a great night.
Please see this message:
https://www.geni.com/discussions/164403?msg=1139654
(If you look at discussions on public profiles you may often see questions already asked and answered).
We all look forward to more findings from Scotland to clarify.
Yehuda, the same principles of genealogy were applied to his ancestors as are applied to any other profile on GENI. Evidence is the basis for genealogy and evidence was lacking for certain connections in Scotland. I assure you politics never did and never will enter into it. Clinton's ancestry also got a trimming at the same time for example. And I should note that President Trump's own website terminated his tree in the exact same location as now shown on GENI. President Trump never made any claims to the ancestors shown previously on GENI before the trimming. In fact the part of the tree published on his website held to the same standards of evidence we use here and was very well done. I'm busy trimming my own ancestors all the time for the exact same reason. Any connections that lack evidence should be disconnected. The person who made the connections was perhaps a bit exuberant. However, I have good news for you which I posted previously on another thread. American Ancestors Magazine Vol 18.1 Spring 2017 announced that an initial genealogy of President Trump is about to be published by Alexander Bannerman in Executive Papers, the journal of The Hereditary Order of the Families of the Presidents and First Ladies. Gary Boyd Roberts will publish a full genealogy in the next year or two. You can read a summary of the article here:
https://www.geni.com/discussions/162521?msg=1138195
The full article for NEHGS subscribers can be downloaded here:
https://www.americanancestors.org/uploadedfiles/media/american_ance...
You cannot disown family members just because you agree with then or not. One of my distant relatives is Charlie Manson. I don't agree with what he did, but he is still connected to me, same goes with both Bill and Hillary Clinton (yes they are distant cousins, the same with me and my husband) and Obama. I don't agree with them, but I'm still connected with them. How are you going to pass your genealogy down to your children if you pick and chose who's going to be on it.
I'm sorry Everyone,
This is too funny!! We don't pick our relatives whether it's through blood or marriage. You can not take them off the tree, even if we wanted to.
I understand your concern or embarrassment.
Look at poor Barbara Jean Zinn. She is related to Charles Manson, did she choose this? No!!
And the worse one of all,
How do you think Hilliary Clinton feels being a blood relative of Trump?
She has it worse than all of us!! Even Barbara Jean Zinn!!
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Geni can't find any path between me and Trump, but I started following him when Geni could do so, I don't want to unfollow him yet, because it has changed of and on a couple of times, maybe the path will be blue again, or not. I was also one of those who could claim that I was related to all of the Presidents of the US, at least here on Geni.
Well, all the Presidents are descended fromJohn I "Lackland", King of England, so they all ARE related, Yes, Trump and Obama are both descended, and are 16th cousins, once removed!
My God!!, Whoever wants to take my Geni path to Donald Trump, I am giving it away free of charge. 🙄
So it's all yours Private User
Also Private User the President you wanted to know who is not related to all the other Presidents is, Martin Van Buren, and he was not related to to King John because he had Dutch roots 🤗
I am not a fan of JOhn Lackland. I am related to King Henry 2nd via both john and his half brother William Longspree, who was illigitment but I like him better. You can't choose your relatives. Just a note Saladin had many of the knights killed among them Willian Longspree's son also named Willian Longspree. When his body made it back home to England and they opened the coffin a rate crawel out of his skull.