The future president was born into a wealthy and respectable family of James Roosevelt, whose ancestors emigrated from Holland to New Amsterdam in 1740 gg. Their descendants became the ancestors of the two branches of the family, one of which gave the U.S. president Theodore Roosevelt, and another – Franklin D. Roosevelt. Roosevelt's father owned a taluk Hyde Park on the Hudson River and the solid shareholdings in a number of coal and transportation companies. Roosevelt's mother, Sara Delano, also belonged to the local aristocracy. As a child, Roosevelt traveled every summer with her parents in Europe (so it is well mastered foreign languages), and resting on the sea coast of New England or the Canadian island of Campobello (near the East Port, Maine), he took great interest of navigation. 14 years Roosevelt is home schooled.