The result was delete. Cirt (talk) 06:21, 19 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
President Obama, like all humans, has millions of distant cousins. The recent American interest in geneology has enabled us to research our family trees and discover hitherto unknown relationships with people we have never met. President Obama is notable, the "cousins" listed on the page are also notable, the relationships between them are not notable; except maybe as trivia items in an individual bio. Steve Dufour (talk) 03:44, 14 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
[See also: List of United States Presidents by genealogical relationship.]
Barack Obama's distant cousins include the multitude of descendants of his maternal ancestors from all along the early-American Atlantic seaboard as well as Kenyan relations belonging to the Luo tribe, many descending from a 17th century ancestor named Owiny.[1][2] For example, George W. Bush, the current U.S. president, is the eleventh cousin of Barack Obama.[3] The New York Times science writer Nicholas Wade has written that the cumulative factor of generations leading back to Obama's and Bush's common progenitor, Samuel Hinckley, means that the U.S. President and the President-elect would each likely share less than one gene (out of the 25,000 or so genes in the human genome) with their distant forebear, and that the chance both men inherited the very same gene is "vanishingly small."[4]