Meg Whitman, our cousin via Jennie Howes (4 ways)

Bechtold descendants:

We are cousins with...

Meg Whitman, former CEO of Ebay, and current contender for the the California Governorship.

I will work it out, but she has 4 set of common ancestors with out Jennie Howes.

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~battle/celeb/megwhitman.htm

The common ancestors:

 Elder John Strong:             9th cousins via these, our 8th Great Grandparents

Abigail Ford: 

Henry Cook:                       10th cousins via these, our 9th Great Grandparents

Judith Birdsall: 

Stephen Hopkins               11th cousins via these, our 10th Great Grandparents

Mary Dudley

Robert Paddock                 10th cousins via these, our 9th Great Grandparents

Mary Holmes