Are you related to President George Washington?

Question

I have discovered I am 11th cousin 6 times removed to George Washington, 1st President of the USA through my father and trough my mother I am his second great uncle's third cousin's wife's third great uncle.

Surprisingly, another relative Col. Peter Willats was on the British side fighting the French, Spanish and colonists. 

I know this is a question many of you will love to answer. 

Comments

Hi Daniel,

I don't think I or the the posters are stating or implying that. Being related to George Washington by blood directly and proving it would be amazing. Being "connected" might be a better word for some people to understand. Just like others on this page I am not proving or implying being either a direct descendant or DNA relative. I think the point is just to have a little fun. It is interesting to see the potential, even unproven relationships, using the Wikitree relationship finder.

The relationship finder tool will only show a "common ancestor" often with someone famous many generations ago. This is not a tool to "prove" a bloodline. I think people misunderstand that the "relationship finder tool" was built in to have a bit of fun and show the "potential" of building a single world tree.

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Why don't you  go  to  the  relationship finder  and  click  on  the  president  list, then  click  on  George Washington, there  is  more  than one  common  ancestor connecting us. Or use  George  Washington's profile  and  compare it  to  mine.

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Why don't you  go  to  the  relationship finder  and  click  on  the  president  list, then  click  on  George Washington, there  is  more  than one  common  ancestor connecting us. Or use  George  Washington's profile  and  compare it  to  mine. After all  the  man  was  descended  from  someone, even  though he  had  no  children, he  had  ancestors.

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George is my 9th cousin's great grandson, a direct blood relation . John Washington Born 1346 in Lancashire England is my direct ancestor. I am not American but English born and live in Australia. I am more distantly  related to John Adams.

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He is my 2nd cousin 9 times removed.

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George Washington is My 18th Cousin 7 times removed

or 17 Degrees from me.

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2nd cousins 8 times removed: George Washington (1732-1799) and Lynden (Raber) Rodriguez OCDS are both descendants of Anne (Pope) Washington (abt.1629-1669).

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This is an old post but I found out I am 5th cousin 7 times removed to George Washington. I also found that I am 1st cousin 7x removed to Debra Read wife of Benjamin Franklin. He was good friends of Dr. Joshua Babcock who is my 6x great grand father. I assume that Debra and Ben introduced her cousin Thankful to him. Which means if not for Ben Franklin I wouldn’t exist.

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I also show that I am 2nd cousins 9 times removed on my paternal grandmother's side. Connected by Colonel Augustine Warner and Mildred Reade down to Mildred Warner. On my dad's side there were numerous ancestors named Mildred "Millie" and settled in Washington, County, Arkansas, named after George Washington.

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Yes. My great grandmother hired a genealogist before she passed away. She gave my sister and I a copy of what was provided to her. It had to have been 30-50 pages front and back of details regarding our family relationship to George Washington and his father. My sister and I are the 13th generation 7 times removed relatives.

Answer 1

His mother's sister i believe was one of my great grandmothers.

Answer 2

George and I are 8th Cousins, on my mom's side!

Answer 3

George and I are 7th cousins 8 times removed.