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(PRWEB) November 5, 2003

For Immediate Release:

Everyone has Family Ties to the American Civil War

Kamuela, HI November 5, 2003 – Bruce Harrison, president of Millisecond Publishing Company, Inc., home of the Family Forest®, a People-Centered Approach to History®, is making this bold statement.

“We each share common ancestors with far more people than most people have ever imagined, and it begins happening much more recently than the estimates coming from DNA researchers.”

It seems to be common knowledge that Lee only had Lee ancestors and Grant only had Grant ancestors, end of story. Right? Wrong! Civil War generals Lee and Grant were at least 13th cousins (and probably much closer), which means they share an enormous number of common ancestors with each other (as well as with millions of others).

If such a diverse group of individuals, as illustrated below in the tiny sampling of General Lee’s kinship, are related to just one of the hundreds of Civil War officers on the new Family Forest Civil War Officers CD-ROM, how many famous Civil War officers might be related to you?

Is there someone at AP, Reuters, the New York Times, Washington Post, USA Today, Chicago Tribune, San Francisco Chronicle, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, Miami Herald, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Houston Chronicle, Wall Street Journal, Time Warner, ABC, CBS, NBC, FOX, BBC or other major media curious enough to investigate the amazing interconnected system of digital links that must already exist in order to produce all of the complex relationship calculations below?

Isn’t it both surprising and counterintuitive to learn that according to the recorded history already located and lineage-linked during the continually expanding Family Forest project, General Robert E. Lee was

A 1st cousin twice removed of Francis Lightfoot “The Signer” Lee.

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