COUSINS BY DOZENS
FRUITFUL SEARCH THROUGH FAMILY TREES
By GINGER ADAMS OTIS
New York Post
Maybe Brad Pitt should play Sen. Barack Obama in the movies - after all, they're ninth cousins.
Their mutual eighth great-grandfather, Edwin Hickman, 1690-1769, is responsible for starting the family line that begat Pitt and Obama - born just two years apart nearly 200 years later.
"If it's true, I consider it great company," Pitt told The Post after being informed of his new relation.
"Kevin Bacon's got nothing on [Obama] in the 'Six Degrees of Separation' department," says Megan Smolenyak, chief family historian of Ancestry.com, a genealogy Web site that turned up loads of connections for The Post.
Obama is related to Vice President Dick Cheney through a 17th-century descendant, as well as President Bush, who has his own share of fascinating family connections.
In addition to John Kerry, Marilyn Monroe and Princess Di and half a dozen ex-presidents, Bush is related to Pocahontas' living relatives.
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