Re: George Bush's alleged descent from Pocahontas

Oh, OK. I have now visited the wiki page, and see that even in that
same page, the author of the information corrects it as follows:

from wiki Pocahontas::talk:
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I think I need to revert my own edition. I've had some correspondence
with the author of the genealogical site I referred to, and this
convinces me that older≠wiser is right. I print (in full) my e-mail
to the author, and his reply:

Dear Dr. Barker,
I have been researching the family tree of President George W. Bush,
and have found your online genealogy very helpful. It is the most
comprehensive that I have found.
There is one problem that I'd like to hear your comments on. Your
genealogy shows that President Bush is a descendant of Pocahontas
through Jane Rolfe (1141). I (and a number of others) have tried
inserting the information in Wikipedia (an online encyclopedia), but a
number of others have drawn my attention to other websites that dispute
the link, claiming that the younger Bolling was the son of Anne Sith,
not Jane Rolfe. Even on your genealogy, I find a problem with it,
namely this:
Jane Rolfe died in 1676.
Her supposed son, Robert Bolling, Jr. (570), was born in 1682.
I got these dates from your genealogy. Now, how can someone be born six
years after his mother has died? Either the dates are wrong (quite
possible), or the link is wrong (equally possible).
Something in me really wants to find that President Bush is a
Pocahontas descendant, but the internal contradiction in the data makes
the connection appear tenuous at best. What are your thoughts on this
matter?
Yours sincerely,
David Cannon.
Dr Barker's reply:
This is a wrong connection, he descends from the Stith connection, and
not the Boling. Sorry for the problem, we have corrected it in our
files, but we have not yet put up the correction on the Internet. Sorry

.

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