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Diana,
Goddess of the Hunt — for Ancestors!
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| When first compiling this lineage comparison it struck me that I should be in the same generation as Barack OBAMA's mother, Ann DUNHAM, because both of us were born in 1942 (and both of our fathers in 1918), yet at the bottom of the first version of this table, Ann and I were two generaions "out of synch." I wondered if there was a mistake in his lineage or mine, so I looked at each generation. It turns out it's simply a matter of chance, with his ancestors often being the early child of a young marriage and my ancestors often being the late child of a late or second marriage. The limitations of HTML won't allow me to space out the generations to scale through time. |
| I first became interested in Barack OBAMA's ancestry when I accidentally
stumbled on the genealogy of him compiled
by William Addams REITWIESNER as I was Googling on "stroup."
I made this discovery back when he was still a Senator, around the time
he gave his stirring speech at the 2004 Democratic National Convention
— during which I thought to myself, I'm looking at America's first black
President. If I was pleased, then, to be his cousin, well...
When he became the 2008 Democratic Presidential candidate, hobby genealogists,
in general, became interested in his ancestry, and once he was elected
President, interest skyrocketed. It especially skyrocketed among
that special breed, the medieval genealogist, because…
As it turns out, OBAMA has fabulous European ancestry through his mother, as a perusal of REITWIESNER's web page (linked above) will attest. OBAMA has "hooked into" the European nobility; and, as the usual result of which, he has many royals in his pedigree, such as: Henry II, Edward I, William I (the Conqueror), etc., up to and including Charlemagne, to name just a few. I share much of this ancestry with him, but on different lines, not our STRAUB line, just as do tens of millions of Europeans and European-Americans, including many notables. For example, Barack is cousin to Pres. James MADISON, Pres. Jimmy CARTER, Pres. Harry TRUMAN, Winston CHURCHILL, Col. Robert E. LEE, Ernest HEMMINGWAY, et al. |
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