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• Her mother was a school secretary and her father was a
science teacher and track coach.
• Palin was born and baptized as a Roman Catholic but raised as
a Pentecostal Christian. Palin's family were Roman Catholics but
later joined the Wasilla Assembly of God, a Pentecostal church.
During an interview, Palin is said to have described herself as a
"Bible-believing Christian".
• Palin's lineage is firmly rooted in ancestry that dates back
to the 1600's in America with an impressive pedigree laden with
numerous pre-1650 immigrants from England.
• Her Mayflower ancestors include William Brewster, John
Howland, Stephen Hopkins, Joan (Hurst) Rogers, John and Elizabeth
Tilley and Richard Warren. She is also the descendant of Thomas
Prence, an early governor of Plymouth Colony.
• Palin's royal lineage claims William 1, King of Scots, as an
ancestor. She also descends from Henry III of England.
• Another of her more interesting ancestors is the Rev. John
Lathrop/Lothrop, a 1605 Cambridge University graduate who was
ordained as an Anglican priest in England but later joined the
dissenters to head a secret congregation in London.
• Anchorage radio host Dan Fagan says, "She's a hockey mom, she
lives on a lake, she ice fishes, she snowmobiles, she hunts...she
has a float plane," and in his opinion, "she's as Alaskan as you
can get".
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While Romney’s documented ancestry does not quite reach the
heights of the family legend, which claimed that they are
descendants of the fourth-century dragon slayer, St. George (the
patron saint of England), it is still an impressive one, with
some of the most celebrated thinkers (maternal great-grandfather,
Parley Parker Pratt, was one of the chief literary defenders of
Mormonism), famed fighters (Carl Heinrich, a member of the
Prussian army, and later, Utah’s militia) and natural leaders
(Miles Romney, who founded and administered the Mormon sanctuary
in Mexico in the 19th century) of post-Independence America.
The family can trace their lineage to modern England, Scotland
and Germany. Miles Park Romney, Mitt’s great-great grandfather
(paternal), hails from Lancashire, England, while on the maternal
side, Archibald Newell Hill was a resident of Renfrew, Scotland.
His great-great grandfather, the legendary Prussian soldier, Carl
Heinrich, was a native of Holstein, Germany.
Romney's family tree is rife with polygamists on the paternal
side, though there is no indication of polygamy on the maternal
side of his family. According to a research by The Salt Lake
Tribune, Romney's ancestry harbors six polygamous men with
forty-one wives. Romney, however, is a confirmed monogamist and
polygamy has been absent in his family background for more than
two generations.
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