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Bush’s
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LONDON,
September 18 (IslamOnline & News Agencies) - According to U.K media
reports, President Bush shares the royal family tree in the U.K. and is
related to Prince Williams.
On
Tuesday, September 17, the Financial Times said that Bush
received a boost from an unlikely source: the Bush family tree.
Quoting
the genealogical website www.ancestry.co.uk
which
will be launched on Wednesday, September 18, the Times said that
George Bush has common ancestry with former British Prime Minister
Winston Churchill. Bush “may be proud to discover that his common
ancestry with Sir Winston dates back to 1420. Looking back 582 years,
the native Texan can even claim linkage to the heir to the throne,
Prince William,” said the paper.
The
website, which is being run by U.S.-based www.MyFamily.com, will
on Wednesday publish original images from the 1891 census, and has
signed a licensing agreement with the Public Record Office in the U.K.
to publish more than 7m images and 130m names from censuses taken
between 1841 and 1891, reported the Financial Times.
According
to the BBC’s online news service, the company came across the link
between the Royal Family and the Bush dynasty during research to put
Victorian censuses and other family history documents online.
Researchers
from the firm traced the link back to Henry Spencer who lived in Badby,
Northamptonshire, during the 15th century, said the paper.
Troy
Dunn, vice-president of MyFamily, said the information was brought to
light by researchers preparing records for browsing by subscribers to
the U.S. site. The research threw up a link to the family of Winston
Churchill and then one to the family of Diana Spencer, it said.
Anyone
subscribing to the site will be able to search name records for their
ancestors and then look at indexed pages of the census records to find
out where their relatives lived, where they came from, their age and
what they did for a living, the BBC reported.
