• On the 11th of February 1964, Sarah Louise Palin née
Heath was born in Sandpoint, Idaho to Sarah 'Sally' Sheeran and
Charles R. 'Chuck' Heath.

• 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".
		

• On the 12th of March 1947, Willard Mitt Romney was born
in Detroit, Michigan to George W. Romney and Lenore Romney. 

• He was named after his father's best friend and hotel
magnate, J Willard Marriott and he owes his middle name to his
father'?s cousin Milton 'Mitt' Romney, a former Chicago Bears
quarterback.

• Romney's illustrious father is a former three-term
Governor of Michigan, Chairman of American Motors and a 1968
presidential candidate while his mother is a 1970 Michigan U.S
Senatorial candidate.

• Though he was born into a humble background, Romney's
father became a wealthy national figure by successfully hauling
American Motors from the depths of bankruptcy.

• The Romneys were one of the few leading families of the
Mormon faith in middle-class America and for nearly a century,
adherents to the Mormon Church of Jesus Christ Latter-Day Saints
were regarded as polygamous outlaws.

• Romney's great-great-grandfather, Miles Romney, was an
architect in England who sacrificed his career to follow the
steps of the Mormons, trek the Midwest and settle with his family
in Utah. 

• His great-grandfather was among those Mormons who fled
to Mexico to start their own community where plural marriage
continued to be practiced.

• 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 up to two generations.