[Brown Deer]

It the other brother existed and was not just a cousin with the same tribal name, he would have his own numbered card but no such card or card number was referenced as the source of the claim that the brother left the school in 1951.

So what? You really don't believe it's there? Why would he make it up? The article was about Barack, not his siblings. There was no reason to write anything more about him.

No older brother, Joseph, exists anywhere that I have seen in all of the extensive family coverage and interviews of the Obama clan.

Unless you can prove otherwise, he went to the school until 1951 and probably died shortly after, since another brother was later named Yusuf.

[Seizethecarp]

“Unless you can prove otherwise, he went to the school until 1951 and probably died shortly after, since another brother was later named Yusuf.”

This was a stay uncorroborated hearsay comment reported by one reporter which does NOT rise to support probability of anything, IMO.

I have had numerous contacts with reporters and the almost always get something wrong or spin something. I always look for source document images or verifiable records in public repositories or public databases.

The British National Archive has all of the Obama family accurately recorded to colonial standards up until they left Kenya and with all of the serious researchers scouring it for family genealogical data it is extremely unlikely that the existence of an older brother, Joseph, would escape worldwide Obama family researchers. Such a person would be yet another long lost uncle of Barry’s and would be big news, if found, IMO.