[muawiyah]

Best I can tell Ann Dunham would have been eligible for Colonial Dames (both societies operating under that name), and it'd been a cakewalk for her to get into the DAR.

With a little bit of work I think there's a case that whole crowd would be eligible for membership in the Oneida Indian tribe (and I may well pursue my own application for that ~ btw, all that information is "secret" so I'm not going to upset the applecart by revealing all that I know.)

Obama's grandmother had one of the most illustrious genealogies anyone in America could have. It's all on the internet back to the Revolution, and in parts earlier. I have much of the information regarding individuals named in the earliest parts of that genealogy and can take a good deal of it back to Scandinavia and France (which is the part in which I've been specializing).

[hennie pennie]

I didn't realize there were two distinct Colonial Dames organizations; however, insofar and Ann Dunham and her son and her granddaughters Malia and Sasha - they'd all be eligible for membership, right? -- I was certain I'd read something like that on a geneology website. I've also read, I think here at FR, that almost anyone who has any 18th century Southern ancestors, either white or black, that the chances are like 98% that you also have a Native American ancestor, most are Cherokee, but there's lot of other southeastern tribes, too.

Your French connections, are they Huguenot? Don't you (also) have ties to New Sweden, or is that another freeper?

Eleanor Roosevelt quit the DAR, right? Because they refused to allow Mahalia Jackson to perform, was that the correct incident?

That is absolutely fascinating about the Oneida ancestry, that sounds extremely complex!