[Chief Engineer]

I knew that Madelyn Dunham, once she retired from Bankoh Dec.31/85, worked as a volunteer mediator in the youth courts in HI and she also volunteered at the library. Some people who worked with her there said she was a fast learner and she could intimidate people. I also knew that Maya is a Buddhist.(sp.)Thanks for the ping.

[BP2]

I believe this is new discovery.

It's yet another confirmation that Ann Dunham, known THIS time as "Mrs. Anna Obama", lived in Seattle from 1961-1962. Source: "Stanley Ann Dunham, mother of Barack Obama, graduates from Mercer Island High School in June 1960" (published Jan 22, 2009)

But here's a potentially bigger issue: Note the name SIX lines above "Obama Anna Mrs", living at 515 (B) 13th Avenue E on Capitol Hill, is a person named "Bernice Payne".

Payne, coincidentally, is the maiden name of Ann's mother, "Madelyn Lee Payne", or "Toots". As you may remember, Toots is Obama's maternal grandmother that passed away around election time 2008. Madelyn along with husband Stanley Dunham and Ann Dunham reportedly moved to Hawaii in June 1960, establishing Hawaiian residency after being in Hawaii for one full year, as Hawaiian law provides.

So who is "Bernice Payne"? Is this a relative of "Madelyn Payne" or perhaps even an an alias that "Madelyn Payne" may have used? It seems just TOO coincidental that another "Payne" would live next door to Ann Dunham and baby Obama in Seattle.

Something perhaps for the genealogists in the group...

Also, to help understand where these places are, feel free to use this: Interactive Map of the three known places Ann Dunham lived in Seattle (on MSN Live Maps)