Talk:Bush family

message: Should Geogie , Rice , Rummy Rumsfeld , Tenant and Cheney be charged with war crimes .  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 120.17.167.100 (talk) 06:28, 6 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  War Crimes 

message: Is there a way we can work in Access Hollywood anchor Billy Bush ?  His father, Jonathan, is the brother of George H. W. Bush.   Billy's also a notable Bush, but he's not political. Chris N. 22:55, 24 Jul 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Billy Bush 

message: Added the particular plaudit offered by The Economist. They were referring mainly to 1,000 days in the Presidential Office but they did discuss (and dismiss) the other main contenders, the Kennedys. Not sure if it should be in the title section, however. --MJW 81.154.201.45 13:30, 8 Feb 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Successful political dynasty 

message: :Bush and Kerry are first cousins, seven times removed.
I seriously doubt that. My first cousin once removed is either the child of my first cousin or the first cousin of my parent. My first cousin twice removed is either the grandchild of my first cousin or the first cousin of my grandparent. In order for Bush and Kerry to be first cousins seven times removed they would have to be seven generations apart from each other, which seems highly unlikely. I suspect they are actually seventh cousins (i.e. Edmund Read and Elizabeth Cooke are the great6-grandparents of both men), or perhaps seventh cousins once removed (i.e. Edmund and Elizabeth are the great6-grandparents of one and either the great5- or the great7-grandparents of the other). Can someone doublecheck this, please? --Angr/comhrá 12:03, 18 May 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I was about to make the same comment.  Even 7th cousin seems too close, unless there was later intermarriage between the two families than mentioned in this article.  Their common ancestor lived over 3 centuries ago.  There'd be too many generations for them to only be 7th cousins, if that is indeed their most recent common ancestor - Nik42 19:26, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm double-checking this, but based on the Bush family tree I have, he and Kerry are actually 9th cousins three times removed. (For most people that's a population that tops 10 million. Only notable in that it's a recorded genealogy, which after a few generations most people are lucky to have at all.) --Dhartung | Talk 01:21, 9 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  How Bush and Kerry are related 

message: I see no mention of connections between the bin Laden family and the Bush family here or at George W. Bush. Shouldn't something this important be on this page?  It's on the bin Laden family page & or the Carlyle Group. Also how does the Bin Laden Family seem to escape the Forbes list of Billionairs? Cparker 00:18, 31 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't think any individual in the bin Laden family is a billionaire. Even the Bushes are not billionaires. (Dick Cheney is richer than any of the individual Bushes, I'm pretty sure, and he isn't a billionaire.) As for the bin Laden connections, they apply only to some members of the family, and are best handled on those specific pages. Also, please do not edit comments unless they are yours. --Dhartung | Talk 22:52, 16 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Connections to the bin Laden family 

message: I had noticed the date myself and hoped to look into it further. For the time being I've rewritten the Richard/Timothy relationship explanations to conform to the document at wargs.com, which seems pretty reliable (calling a conjecture a conjecture). It's quite possibly a question that will never be resolved, of course.
As for Mans Andersson, it's interesting that there's a Swedish ancestor, but that's less than 1% of the current President's genetic make-up, so it doesn't belong in the intro (why not list all the Irish, German, and whatever else too). Some people view genealogy as a kind of panning for gold (look! a king!), others take a more jaded view like Mark Humphrys.  I'm well convinced of the latter, besides, very often the "minor" members of a family have just as interesting stories to tell (I recently beefed up James Smith Bush, for example -- wow). --Dhartung | Talk 23:51, 3 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Richard Bush problem 

message: Why does this page link to the Bush-twins vote. I hardly find it relevant —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.48.64.83 (talk • contribs) 
:Thanks for pointing that out. It was linkspam we other editors failed to notice. --Dhartung | Talk 17:05, 27 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bush twins vote 

message: Anybody know? Amazing how these plutocrats manage to dodge the Forbes lists. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 195.93.60.74 (talk • contribs) 
:Well, to be on Forbes you have to have at least US$1 billion. A recent WaPo article analyzed George W.'s personal wealth at $10-35M (Cheney is well over $100M), and his dad has been pegged previously in the low single-digit millions. Some of the banker siblings like Bucky may well be worth more than Dubya. This would be interesting information to get into the article in some way. --Dhartung | Talk 01:08, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Estimated net worth? 

message: This page is lacking a summary of the family history. Where does the Bush name originate from? J.J. 07:07, 6 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Sorry, are you asking about the meaning of the name "Bush", or are you asking how the family rose to prominence? Regarding the latter, I'm working on several individuals' articles, and I agree an overview is needed, but I haven't gotten around to it yet. --Dhartung | Talk 09:31, 6 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Don't be blind. It's old European Nobility . I like Burke's Peerage 09:48, 30 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm not sure what you mean by such a cutesy response, but being listed in Burke's is not the same as being "old European nobility". Certainly not directly. Bush is more closely related to Churchill than to anyone in the British royal family. --Dhartung | Talk 17:45, 30 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm sort of glad you took the burden to mention the cousinship to Churchill too. But - of course - theres a remarkabel connexion with old European nobility too. Both facts I can't find in the article as yet. I like Burke's Peerage 08:53, 3 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Sorry, but if your argument is as it seems that the name Bush all by itself indicates pedigree, I'm afraid you're reaching. The earliest American Bush, Richard, was some kind of scoundrel and the (bastard?) son Timothy was just a blacksmith, which does not especially suggest a tony background. It's much more interesting to me that they came from such origins rather than with a silver foot spoon and all. --Dhartung | Talk 01:27, 26 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: To be born with a silver spoon in the mouth shouldn't bee any problem;  but a <kidding> reptilian bloodline should </kidding>, you can find the bloodline-thing in the david icke lemma, espcacially here  ;-) I like Burke's Peerage 15:16, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Family history

message: Is it worth including her? She is the fourth cousin, 3 and 4 times removed, of the two Presidents, respectively, closer than the related Presidents mentioned.--Chuljin 18:43, 25 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for asking. My personal opinion is that notability requires some connection, e.g. similar profession or some kind of interaction. Related Presidents of a President is notable, a cousin he knew personally would be, but there are literally scores of notable individuals connected to the Bush family. This is not, however, notable, as it mainly reflects their extensive New England heritage. Most people do not have their Xth cousins Yth removed fully researched, but because of their notability, the Bush family does. I've placed information about :Christie Todd Whitman (in-law) and :Tom Kean (cousin) in their respective articles because the family connection is notable in light of their appointments to key positions. Ultimately, although Wikipedia could include such information, we're not an indiscriminate listing of trivia. We could list every relative here with a Wikipedia article, but that wouldn't be very useful to anyone, and it would create a false sense that the Bush family is uniquely blessed with famous relatives, just because we've gone to the trouble to list them all. --Dhartung | Talk 00:36, 26 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I understand now. I apologize for indiscriminately putting it in before. --Chuljin 01:14, 26 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Not at all! You've been perfectly polite, and that gets you far on Wikipedia. --Dhartung | Talk 01:28, 26 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Louisa May Alcott]]? 

message: The White House took a formal photo of the Bush family the gathered to celebrate George H.W. Bush and Barbara Bush's 60th anniversary.  Regardless of one's political allegiances, it seems fair to say it is a lovely photo and anyway complete and recent. Should or can it be included here? Minutiaman 19:54, 9 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Actually, I'd been looking for some time for a higher-quality version of the one here, from the 2005 inauguration. It's probably the most "complete" one there is. Yours has the same low-resolution problem (although it's funny to see the President showing off his socks, maybe that's why!), but has a few more cousins. This one has most of the President's generation, but not his dad's siblings. Here's another from his dad's library from when he was President, again just the current batch of siblings. And in this one you can't even recognize them! --Dhartung | Talk 02:24, 9 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I still prefer the photograph I found because it seems to have everyone in what I call the immediate (first) extended family (meaning the president's mom, dad, brothers, sister, nieces, nephews...), basically everyone alive on the article and then some (those few youngins should be added to it). We don't need second cousins and so forth, and anyway the photo I found lists everyone so readers will actually know who's who. But I don't know how to upload photos so I publicized it here. Minutiaman 20:01, 9 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: White House photo of entire family

message: We should get a diagram of the Bush family.--Johnston49er 20:57, 9 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: A diagram of the family? Or of the family tree? -- 12.116.162.162 19:56, 21 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Just added one! RHMI 22:57, 27 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Diagram? 

message: Removed a "citation needed" comment about the Economist, on a given date, desribing the Bushes as the most successful political family in US history. The statement itself is surely a citation. Garbled my edit comment though. Oops. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Cmsg (talk • contribs) .
:Unfortunately, that is not a formal citation that meets the standards in WP:CITE, to which all articles should continually aspire (see the References section). I'm reinserting the template. The Economist has recently gone ad-supported, but the quote is not visible via search engines. It may be available on Nexis, though. It may be better to simply replace it with a citable description of a similar nature. --Dhartung | Talk 06:16, 10 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Citation needed? 

message: I think Prescott Bush Jr.'s 1982 senate candidacy merits a mention. The long term fallout probably led to Joe Lieberman's long term senate career as many Bush supporters against Weicker backed Joe in 1988 —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 70.181.52.14 (talk) 13:02, 4 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: It's in the Prescott Bush, Jr. article. I don't see the relevance here, especially as the connection you are making is speculative. -- Dhartung | Talk 01:22, 22 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Senate candidacy unimportant?

message: I have re-instated le Botelers as one of the Bush - Garfield connections. Yet I have been unable to work out how to reference it. The actual reference is here: http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/g/a/r/J-H-Garner/FILE/0141page.html. The le Botelers appear in generation 19. Pete 09:43, 27 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: This article disproves the royal descent of Garfield ancestor William Arnold: http://www.ancestry.com/learn/library/article.aspx?article=636371.92.70.77 23:39, 30 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The le Boteler connection is not a royal connection, although the le Boteler/Butler family were minor aristocracy. Far from it ... the Butlers produced Wild Bill Hickok as well. It is, however, a clear connection between the Bush and Garfield families.Pete 10:26, 1 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: But the article shows that the PARENTAGE of Garfield ancestor William Arnold is not known.131.215.108.211 23:42, 2 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Garfield connection 

message: Can anyone source these, especially the Charlemagne claim? Cheers.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 172.159.79.144 (talk) 14:17, 6 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The charlemagne claim is totally false and why is there a link to a conspiracy website: http://www.proliberty.com/observer/20070405.htm  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Darth Anzeruthi (talk • contribs) 23:02, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

text: By the way, I have a (direct, though mixed-gender!) line leading from Rurik to Bush. Verified the first and the last generations, but not sure about the middle.--Alexmagnus (talk) 11:29, 30 April 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Other notable relatives section 

message: Who deleted this?  When was it deleted?  Why was it deleted?Pistolpierre (talk) 18:41, 27 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: How do yuo know if it was true and it was probably unsourced.Darth Anzeruthi (talk) 23:01, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  What happened to the mention of his Native American ethnicity? 

message: Does anyone know where this can be confirmed? I haven't found any other source on the web confirming this connection, and the link that it uses as a reference doesn't provide support. SocraticPrince (talk) 07:59, 31 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pierce/House of Lorraine Connection 

message: Edited family tree to add some names.  Also, genealogists usually list women by their birth names, which most of the tree did already, but I fixed the parts that didn't.  That gets rid of redundant information (husband's surname) and adds useful information (their middle names, many of which were family names). Added middle names for the men where possible too.  Removed several self-referencing wikilinks.  Also, the tree doesn't list the offspring of several people (Jonathan, William H.T., Marvin, Dorothy, etc.), so I labeled it a "selective family tree." Ariadne55 (talk) 16:36, 13 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: There is quite a bit more missing from that family tree. I don't have the time to fix it, but here's a link to what seems to be a complete one. Maybe just include this in the footnotes, since it's pretty big. 
http://www.randomhouse.com/doubleday/thefamily/media/thefamily_family_tree.pdf  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.190.204.212 (talk) 13:09, 20 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Family tree 

message: James Smith Bush is listed and linked twice in the diagram.  He is both the Grandfather of Prescott Sheldon Bush and Prescott's sibling.  I don't have a proper geneaology to know whether the sibling is correct and named for granddad, or an error (or if the error is in grandfather's name).  Currently, the sibling James Smith is linked to the same wikiarticle on the grandfather James Smith Bush, making him his own grandfather, like in the joke.  I've deleted the link, but can someone with information verify who is right?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by NotTires (talk • contribs) 00:20, 4 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  "He's his own grandpa" 

message: What Vice President? --62.243.82.5 (talk) 13:26, 5 May 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I moved this comment from the top of the page to here, as new comments go on the bottom of talk pages. That said, I think the anon poster inadvertantly raises a good point. The answer to his question is obviously George H.W. Bush, in refernce to his days as Regan's VP before becoming President himself. But, I can see where the confusion might arise, as the current phrasing of the introduction, by listing "two governors, one Vice President and two Presidents" implies five separate individuals, where in truth there were only three family members to hold those offices, George H.W. and George W. having each held two separate offices at different times. There must be a better way to phrase that to make clear that we're speaking of a smaller number of individuals, but I'm not sure how to go about it without specifying names in the introduction, which I don't think would be appropriate for an overview article like this one. Hopefully another contributor can take a crack at it. oknazevad (talk) 07:25, 22 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Introduction confusion?

message: I don't think that any link to her on the family tree should go to a book that psychoanalyzes her brother.  If there isn't a valid connection as to what she has done, then it should be left blank with no link.  Quite simply, given the timing of the edits, the link was there simply to give less reason to delete the Bush_on_the_Couch article.  However, I am uncomfortable making the change without any sort of discussion.  I'll change it eventually if I don't hear a good reason not to, but I'll give it time first. Mentor397 (talk) 20:36, 31 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pauline Robinson "Robin" Bush 

message: Who is the other senator? --SchutteGod (talk) 17:19, 10 March 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  'Two U.S. Senators' 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: Please see Talk:Bush–Davis–Walker family political line. Thanks. – Jonesey95 (talk) 14:39, 7 December 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Attention needed at [[Talk:Bush–Davis–Walker family political line]] 

message: Chester Bennington claimed to be related to Barbara Bush https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmYQy-vzeBQ&ab_channel=DehCodeParadise 176.59.17.155 (talk) 00:25, 17 February 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Chester Bennington 

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message: The article currently says near the top of the lede that "the Bush family was the First Family several times", blah blah blah. This is somewhat misleading: the title of the article, Bush family, refers to the dynastic aspect of even distantly related people named Bush; the term First Family refers to the immediate family who dwell in the White House. Should be reworded to make it more clear; simply saying who was President would be fine without using the term First Family at all. 2603:8001:D3F0:87E0:0:0:0:10D0 (talk) 05:06, 26 February 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  First family?