奧巴馬應(yīng)叫巴菲特“太爺爺”

　　美國一個研究家族系譜的網(wǎng)站15日稱，美國總統(tǒng)奧巴馬與全球第二大富豪、股神巴菲特的祖輩有血緣關(guān)系，兩人分別是一個17世紀(jì)移民美國的法國人的第9代玄孫和第6代玄孫。換句話說，巴菲特論輩分該是奧巴馬的曾祖父。

　　Obama and billionaire Buffett are distant cousins

　　President Barack Obama and billionaire financier Warren Buffett are very distant cousins goingback to an indentured servant from 17th century France, Ancestry.comsaid Tuesday。

　　Experts from what is billed as the world's largest family historywebsite traced the two men's lineage to Mareen Duvall, who immigratedto Maryland from France in the 1650s。

　　Duvall is Obama's ninthgreat-grandfather and Buffett's sixth great-grandfather, according toAncestry.com, which earlier this year found that Obama has German rootsand in 2007 said he was distant cousin of actor Brad Pitt。

　　A few years after arriving as an indentured servant from France,Duvall in 1659 purchased a property in Anne Arundel County, Maryland,that he later named "Middle Plantation," the genealogy research companysaid。

　　It described Obama's and Buffett's rags-to-riches common ancestor as "conservative in his political life."

　　Obama's ancestry was linked to that of former vice president DickCheney when Obama ran for president in 2008. Cheney's wife, Lynne, saidshe found her husband and Obama were related through a French emigre,who turned out to be Duvall。

　　"Mareen Duvall had 12 children and he can have quite a number ofdescendents and it's hard to begin to speculate the number of peoplewho could possibly related to Mareen Duvall in the United States,"Ancestry genealogist Anathasia Tyler told AFP。

　　She said the relation between Obama and Buffett was discovered by chance during a research of the billionaire's ancestry。

　　"We didn't have any clue... We'd been working on President Obama'stree for a couple of years and then we decided to do Warren Buffett'sresearch, and as we researched we got back a few generations andstarted seeing this last name Duvall。

　　"We continued on that and we were able to prove that there is a connection."