• 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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