Recently I discovered a fascinating bit of genealogical news about our family. All Swishers descended from Benjamin and Elizabeth Smith Whitmore Swisher are related (distantly) to Presidents Ulysses S. Grant and Franklin Delano Roosevelt!

It all started with Thankful Miner. I was reading Elizabeth Smith's Family line one day and ran across Thankful's name. What a great name, I thought. I decided to look into where she came from. With a little bit of online digging I was able to come up with quite a history on the Miner family. As I continued digging, I came across the Grant connection, and in doing so stumbled over the Delano connection.

As my brother pointed out, if we're related to Franklin, we ought to count Theodore and Eleanor too.

I set the lineage up so you can take a look. (Since I am descended from Benjamin's son Lovell, I continued the line through my great Grandfather Benjamin). And though I don't think we'll be invited to the next Roosevelt family reunion, the relationships are all there, in really pretty colors!

Click on the image to see a larger version. (For readability's sake it's a large file. Be patient)