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I'm wondering how this is possible since James Buchanan was a bachelor who had no children?
Well, the question didn't ask for actual ancestors - he could have been a sibling of one of txtoal's ancestors. According to wikipedia, Buchanan had 10 siblings who I imagine all or mostly all had children and many descendants who are alive today and would be related to Buchanan even if not directly descended from him.
OK, thanks - good answers. I should have realized that being in the same family tree and being a direct descendant are not necessarily the same thing. D'Oh!
Last edited by Bayarea4; 11-06-2010 at 01:32 PM..
Reason: clarity
My dear old ma has been doing her family tree for years now. anyway, our Buchanan side of my mums family first settled in county Armagh during the plantations settlement, thereafter some family members moved into County Tyrone. it's stated that (by my mother ) that her Great, great great grandfathers brother was the father of James Buchanan whom Emigrated in the late 1700's
Related to the Bush family and also Lyndon Johnson - supposedly through the same family line - Amer Via who came here from France in the 1600's.
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