Posted on 07/21/2009 8:02:03 PM PDT by restornu
Family History Web Site Confirms German Ancestry Through President's Sixth Great-Grandfather
PROVO, Utah, /PRNewswire/ -- Ancestry.com, the world's largest online resource for family history, has confirmed through historical documents the identities of German ancestors in President Barack Obama's family tree. The discovery was made by an Ancestry.com genealogical research team, which determined that President Obama's 6th maternal great-grandfather Johann Conrad Wolfley was born in Besigheim, Wuerttemberg, Germany, in 1729 (present day Baden-Wuerttemberg).
Genealogists at the No.1 family history Web site revealed that President Obama's German ancestor was born Johann Conrad Wolflin on January 29, 1729. He immigrated in 1750, sailing to America on the ship Patience. Johann Conrad changed his last name to Wolfley once he settled among other German immigrants in Pennsylvania. His son, Ludwig Wolfley, President Obama's 5th great-grandfather, was born in 1766 in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. This research confirms that President Obama is one of the 17 percent of Americans with German ancestry.*
The key to this discovery is a mid-1700s historical document known as the "Register of Souls," a record that includes information about all individuals belonging to a specific parish. According to this record, in 1745 the Wolflin family resided in Beutelsbach, a village in Wuerttemberg, Germany, near Stuttgart. Listed on the document is young Johann Conrad with his parents, Johann Martin Wolflin and Maria Margaretha (the president's 7th great-grandparents), and siblings.
The "Register of Souls" states that Johann Conrad's father, Johann Martin Wolflin, was a field surgeon, born in 1690, who had a lengthy military career and participated in the battles at Peterwaradein, Temeswar, and Belgrade in 1716-17 during the Austro-Turkish War. He was reportedly hit with an arrow during the Temeswar Siege. The document also indicates that Johann Martin's father, Conrad Wolflin (Obama's 8th great-grandfather), served as a mayor for 30 years.
In recent months, Ancestry.com family history experts have made other fascinating discoveries in President Obama's family tree, including confirmation of his Irish roots and his family connection to the actor Brad Pitt.
"When you begin to research your family's past, you quickly discover that the world's history is your history," said Tim Sullivan, CEO of The Generations Network, Inc., parent company of Ancestry.com. "Suddenly the mid-1700s European political struggles or the mass migrations from the Irish famine have direct relevancy to your life - as the actions and decisions of your ancestors ultimately shaped who you are today."
Ancestry.com, the world's largest online family history resource, recently announced that its members have added more than 1 billion people to more than 10 million user-generated family trees on the site since the tree-building and -sharing tools debuted in July 2006. For more information, or to build your family tree and discover your family history, visit www.ancestry.com.
* Source: U.S. Census Bureau, factfinder.census.gov
About Ancestry.com and The Generations Network
The Generations Network, Inc., through its flagship Ancestry.com property, is the world's leading resource for online family history. Ancestry.com has local websites in nine countries and has digitized and put online over 8 billion records and 28,000 historical collections over the past twelve years.
Since July 2006, Ancestry.com users have created 10 million family trees containing 1 billion profiles and 20 million photographs and stories. The Generations Network also includes myfamily.com, Genealogy.com, Rootsweb.ancestry.com, MyCanvas.com, dna.ancestry.com, Family Tree Maker and Ancestry Magazine.
More than 9.2 million unique visitors spent over 4.7 million hours on a TGN website in March 2009 (comScore Media Metrix, Worldwide).
Donchaknow this would pizz ol’ Mo off to no ends? LMAOROFL!
Yeah...that explains his trying to shove his policies down our throats.
No offense to the good Germans - and I know a lot of them. :-)
As I notice some here practice the seven deadly sins!
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Well its brave of you to admit to that...
But you better stop doing that...
It aint ladylike behavior...
“has confirmed through historical documents”
I can’t see from the original article where DNA was used at all, I think they came to this conclusion by plugging his name into existing family trees as so many folks do.
Many don’t know they can summit a sample of their DNA and at least 4 generation and from that can tell the various religions around the world your ancester migrated.
It takes more time but it can also help one fine out who their parents were if they were an orphan and had not clue where to start.
And this is relevant how?
Looking at collateral lines, I'm more than willing to reject the "Conrad" hypothesis and stick with the "Condorman" hypothesis.
That way he gets to claim "Bucky" Phillips as a cousin, and "Bucky" is just interesting as all get out!
at least 4 generation and from that can tell the various religions around the world your ancester migrated.
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My ancestorsa didnt migrate from different religions ...
They were all Christians...
DNA can be collected from something as small as a few strands of hair or a cheek swab. I’m not sure if it can be collected from a fecal sample, but I do remember reading a Cold War account of how some CIA agents staked out a men’s room in a hotel where Nikita Khrushchev was meeting, collected the sample and sent it to the lab which was able to analyze it enough to determine that Khrushchev’s health was deteriorating and what, exactly, was wrong with him. Within weeks, he was out of power.
How did ancestry.com get a sample of Obama’s DNA?
Plus since Romney has German ancestors, too
Romney and Obama are cousins....
And they talk alike and think alike...
Oh goody Romney can get an invite to the White House after all...
:)
The trick is to have both John Adams and William Henry Harrison as ancestors ~ like virtually all American Presidents (except a handful of early ones, but they were fairly close cousins).
You know what a hopeless task is? It's trying to figure out who's gotta' die first so you can get Harrison's spot in the Society of Cincinatus.
It seems the specualtion on this topic is already preconceived by the pleasant demeanor so many have expressed
I thought they could only trace ancestors through the Y DNA (i.e. his dad’s side).
I had this site saved for his genealogy. There are others of German origin indicated:
Ok, Brad Pitt, Sorenson and DNA, bla bla, Forbes Mag.
I’ll reread your comment tomorrow, maybe it will make more sense after a good night’s sleep.
I thought they could only trace ancestors through the Y DNA (i.e. his dad’s side).
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He has a brother in Kenya
“analyze it enough to determine that Khrushchev’s health was deteriorating and what, exactly, was wrong with him. Within weeks, he was out of power.”
Oh if BHO could only suffer the same fate.........
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