Obama’s family tree has been discussed on the Internet since he became U.S. senator from Illinois in 2005, but attention has usually been paid to his connection to Charlemagne, to other presidents such as George W. Bush, and to celebrities such as Brad Pitt.
Among all those relatives is Jonathan Singletary Dunham, born in 1639.
He is [...]
The following news release was received from Tom Champoux, Marketing Director, New England Historic Genealogical Society:
Click on the illustration to see it at the NEHGS website.
January 29, 2010 (Boston, MA) – Researchers at the New England Historic Genealogical Society (NEHGS) in Boston have uncovered family lines that link President Barack Obama with Scott Brown, the [...]
Tributes.com has just posted their 2009 Year in Review, Known for their Celebrity obituaries, as well as those for the lesser-known folks, Tributes does a great job of reminding us of those who’ve passed on.
In looking through the many prominent people who died during 2009, I note that many of these folks [...]
The following news release was received from Anastasia Tyler at Ancestry.com:
PROVO, UTAH – Dec. 15, 2009 – Ancestry.com, the world’s largest online resource for family history, confirmed today that President Barack Obama and billionaire financial investor Warren Buffett are more than just political allies — they are actually related. The discovery, made by [...]
LITTLE ROCK — The number of visitors each year to the William J. Clinton Presidential Library has slipped only slightly in the library’s first five years, surpassing everyone’s expectations, its top administrator says.
“We’re at about 300,000 (visitors per year) for the last two years,” said Terri Garner, director of the Clinton Library. “The first year [...]
WASHINGTON—The last great archives of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s presidency may soon be available to researchers and the public — 14 boxes of handwritten notes, gifts and correspondence, including a letter from Italian dictator Benito Mussolini congratulating him on his 1933 inauguration.
The House on Monday approved a bill to clear the way for the memorabilia to [...]
The following teaser is from a UPI article that mentions the pride and interest in meeting Michelle Obama by some of her distant relatives. I don’t know that there’s really a story here, as I’ll bet that both the President and his wife both have countless cousins in the U.S. - and worldwide - all [...]
According to Megan Smolenyak Smolenyak’s tweet this morning, she has been “researching Michelle Obama’s roots for a while.” The research began to come to light today in an article published in the October 7, 2009 Politics section of the New York Times. Pretty good stuff… The online article includes an interactive section that allows the [...]
WASHINGTON – September 25, 2009 - Today, President Barack Obama announced his intent to nominate several individuals to key administration posts. The nominees included Adele Logan Alexander, to be a member of the National Council on the Humanities.
The following is from the White House Press Release:
Adele Logan Alexander, Nominee for Member, National Council on [...]
Alerted by the NEHGS eNews Vol. 11, No. 32, (August 12, 2009) to the fact the there was an article in the New Yorker about Ohio genealogist Kenny Burke’s son, I clicked on over to check it out. Sure enough, in the “Family Tree” column, there was an article called Nude Dude, by [...]
Since the President yesterday announced that Judge Sonia Sotomayor was his choice as the next Supreme Court Justice, there has been all kinds of controversy as to whether she will be the first Hispanic Supreme Court Justice. It seems that the name of Justice Benjamin Cardozo, who served on the court from 1932-1938, [...]
A letter written in 1824, by President Andrew Jackson, prior to his presidency, has been recovered and returned to the New York State State Library, from which it was stolen.
The letter was for sale in an on-line auction site for $35,000. UT Professor Tom Coens spotted the item online, recognized it, and reported [...]
When the manuscripts in the Lincoln collection find their new home in the Allen County Public Library next month, they will be joined by two museum staff members.
The museum workers will join the library’s staff, but money raised by the Friends of the Lincoln Museum – not general property taxes – will be used to [...]
PHILADELPHIA - John Sotos has a theory about why Abraham Lincoln was so tall, why he appeared to have lumps on his lips and even why he had gastrointestinal problems. The 16th president, he contends, had a rare genetic disorder _ one that would likely have left him dead of cancer within a year had [...]
Allen County Library officials are finishing their preparations for the Lincoln documents that were previously cared for by the former Fort Wayne Lincoln Museum, now that the library has completed the remodeling necessary to care for the collection.
The Lincoln documents and manuscripts will be moved from the museum to the Allen County Public Library [...]
