Map Showing The Ancestry Of US Presidents

Map created by redit user Unusual_Pomelo_1553The map above shows the ancestry of US Presidents (sometimes going back up to 10 generations). He states that:

I used genealogy resources to track their ancestors to approximately 10 generations, or until the information disappears. Then I noted which countries their ancestors came from.

Virtually all of them had ancestry from many countries, not just one.

Here is a list of countries and the number of presidents with ancestry from each:

1. England: 39 Presidents
   • Examples: Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, Jimmy Carter
2. Scotland: 22 Presidents
   • Examples: James Monroe, Woodrow Wilson, Ronald Reagan
3. Wales: 19 Presidents
   • Examples: George Washington, Millard Fillmore, William Howard Taft
4. Northern Ireland: 13 Presidents
   • Examples: Andrew Jackson, William McKinley, George H.W. Bush
5. Ireland: 13 Presidents
   • Examples: James Buchanan, John F. Kennedy, Joe Biden
6. France: 13 Presidents
   • Examples: Ulysses S. Grant, Calvin Coolidge, Franklin D. Roosevelt
7. Germany: 12 Presidents
   • Examples: Andrew Johnson, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Donald Trump
8. Netherlands: 8 Presidents
   • Examples: Martin Van Buren, Theodore Roosevelt, Warren G. Harding
9. Switzerland: 5 Presidents
   • Examples: Herbert Hoover, Harry Truman, Barack Obama
10. Denmark: 4 Presidents
    • Examples: James Madison, Zachary Taylor, Lyndon B. Johnson
11. Czechia: 1 President
    • Example: George W. Bush
12. Estonia: 1 President
    • Example: Franklin Delano Roosevelt
13. Kenya: 1 President
    • Example: Barack Obama
14. Poland: 1 President
    • Example: Gerald Ford
15. Spain: 1 President
    • Example: Herbert Hoover
16. Sweden: 1 President
    • Example: Lyndon B. Johnson