Ancestry.com Reveals German Roots in President Obama's Family Tree (DNA was used)

ancestry.com ^ | June 4

[Kowdawg]

AUTUNG, BABY!

[restornu]

This appears another an independent research outside of the Church.

There are many genealogist

[Tennessee Nana]

Wonder why this is in the Religion Forum...

For the first mormon president ???

Yes ???

Oh....

[dfwgator]

"Well to let you in on the family secret, my Grandmother was Dutch."

[Niteflyr]

"Well to let you in on the family secret, my Grandmother was Dutch."

LOL! That movie was so great...made back before political correctness ruined this country...

[ErnstStavroBlofeld]

My brother did mine because he is a geneticist. I been pleading with him to into the business of genetic engineering but it have not worked

[Tennessee Nana]

This is about doing geneology it was not met to be political.
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And it’s not meant to be in the Religion Forum...

[restornu]

Tell that to the mods!

[restornu]

It is a lot of fun after the work is done or you start making head way.

It is very time consumming but I am sure those in the field learn many techniques.

It is very rewarding too.

[Julia H.]

I’m related to Obama’s English side (beginning with the Suttons at the earliest), and I’m a distant cousin of pretty much every President of English, Welsh, Scottish or Irish descent (one think I’ve learned from researching my English ancestors is that all English people are related many, many, many times—I guess that’s an effect of living on an island).

Andrew Jackson is my first cousin eight times removed—his mother’s sister Mary (Mollie) Hutchinson is my 7th great grandmother. Jackson was anything but a “man without a family”—he descends from Colonel John Hutchinson the Regicide, and consequently tons of European royalty and nobility.

[ErnstStavroBlofeld]

The amount of money in that field is infinite.

[restornu]

I guess it goes back to the 6th degree of seperation.

Just makes you wonder why the human race fights, needs to to fight, or have to fight, or forced to fight!?

The Lord sees the bigger picture while some of us here seem to grow more myopic each day.

[Rodamala]

Ah! It all makes sense now!

[cydcharisse]

As soon as the magic name was uttered, it became political.

[celtic gal]

I have done a lot or work on ancestry.com researching my own maternal side. I was orphaned and with the help of a PI I learned who my maternal side is. The father's name is on the records at Catholic Charities but not, it seems on the original birth certificate, so I have no way to get it and the laws of MO are against me inasmuch as my natural mother id now deceased..(oh I did talk with her one time only and she did not deny anything..didn't share information but did not deny it and all I told her was my birth date..)
ANYWAY, with the info provided by the PI I was able to track the maternal side to England, Ireland, Scotland, Iceland, France...discovered there are a couple of saints in the lot, many heads of nobility and connections to the Plantagenet line of kings. I tell friends I don't stand on ceremony and we will dispense with all that bowing and scraping stuff.
If one is an Icelander,they are in luck as those folks have kept such detailed genealogy records they can track their ancestry to before rocks. They are amazing!! Point is, with the bit of info that is public knowledge about 0bama's mother and her relatives it would be easy to track that back,time consuming but not really all that hard.
Searching some other races or nationalities is more difficult such as the blacks because of the issue of slavery and the fact that these people were taken from their homeland and families so split up. Also there is some difficulty with the Mexican nationality ( my husband's family) because of the lack of records. If the families have documents or letters or a line they kept there is a way to start.
But even with that said, eventually one can run into dead ends. I ran into dead ends with the men of my maternal side but the women had many more links that I could track back. Then too, there are others doing the same research on family names and with all of this information found ones work can be cross checked.

[Oshkalaboomboom]

It's one of those hobbies where the people who are into it are really into it and the people who aren't don't see what the fuss is about. I am one of the latter, my wife is one of the former.

[Tennessee Nana]

Iceland ??? Vikings !!!

For me whenever I come across the name Smith, I leave that line alone...

Smith, Jones, any of those common names make it near immpossible to keep tracking...

I have more success with Dutch names and their variations..

[restornu]

From BYU

Search for Names & Records <<

The Internet has provided a wealth of tools for genealogists, including the ability to search large online databases to assist you in researching your ancestors. The Ancestors Web Site can help you identify many good sites for doing online searches; please visit our Links Page for further information.

In addition, this page features links to selected online databases.

Databases available include: Vietnam War Memorial, “Roots” Cellar, Internet Family File, Surname Search, Social Security Death Benefits and many others. You will also have the ability to add your own information to many of these databases.

http://www.byub.org/ancestors/ancestralsearch/