I am apparently related to 19th century President Rutherford B. Hayes, one of the most useless Presidents in US history. I don't know much of my family's history further back, at least not that's particularly interesting. On my dad's side, my ancestors were Englishmen who way have come over as far back as the colonial era (they were in the US as far back as the late 18th century, anyway), and on my mom's side, my great great grandfather emigrated from Germany.