Bush has Swedish ancestors

[sabra]

http://www.dnaindia.com/report.asp?NewsID=1021900

Prez Bush has Swedish ancestors


STOCKHOLM: US President George W Bush has Swedish ancestors, reports said on Monday quoting research conducted by a US-based genealogical society. The Swedish Colonial Society said it has traced the president’s ancestors to the 10th generation and discovered a link between Bush and Mans Andersson, who left Sweden in October 1639.

Andersson had sailed from the port city Gothenburg, on the west coast, by the ship “Kalmar Nyckel” to the Swedish colony New Sweden on the Delaware river on the eastern seaboard of the US, the Stockholm newspaper Svenska Dagbladet said.

“George W. Bush and his relatives are very interested in this information. These are their oldest known European roots,” David Emmi of the Swedish Colonial Society told the newspaper.

Andersson started to farm tobacco and built a farm that he named Silleryd. Researchers believe that the farm could be named after Sillerud in the western Swedish province Varmland. According to the research, Andersson was married twice. His second wife was also the daughter of a Swedish immigrant. They had six children including a son, Christoper Mansson, born around 1652.

[AX10]

1. My most sincere condolences to the Swedes.

[Skink]

2. Lucky for Sweden.

[EST]

3. I thought his swedish ancestor's name was

Adolph Heidler.

[hippiechick]

8. Isn't Man(s)son close enough ?

:shrug: :evilgrin:

[Hand]

4. AH HA!!! BLAME SWEDEN! nt

[TahitiNut]

5. My Norwegian relatives would nod and say "it figures."

:silly:

[Media_Lies_Daily]

6. Must have been a branch on the right-wing side of the tree.

[Missy M]

7. Here I thought the Bush family were spawns of the devil....

and I have to find out they came from Sweden. How disappointing.

[shain from kane]

11. Loki here. Not the devil. n/t

[Missy M]

13. I read a little about Loki and he does match the Bush profile...

so spawns of Loki it is.

[Lisa]

17. except for the part about Loki being clever and charming ...

Bush couldn't pull off a fraction of the things that Loki did!

Although, I must say that what eventually happened to Loki would be oddly fitting, in Bush's case (unending torture ...)

[Cleita]

9. So is his Viking name, George the Idiot?

eom

[onenote]

10. Why do you hate Sweden

[HereSince1628]

12. Hmmm, maybe he is related to that Bear Clan in 13th warrior?

That would explain somethings.

[RaleighNCDUer]

16. But in the original book, they were Neandertals.

Oh.

Never mind.

[Rocknrule]

14. He probably used a Swedish made penis enlarger

for his aircraft carrier stunt
:evilgrin:

[Stockholm]

15. It completely ruined my Monday morning...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=826074&mesg_id=826074

[jean]

18. Ugh. Rove's Norwegian heritage is another blight

[EST]

19. Even the best of families can have the worst of get. n/t