Common Ancestry of Sen. Barack OBAMA and Diana Gale MATTHIESEN

U.S. Senator Barack OBAMA,
descendant of Johann Pieter STRAUB, 1733 immigrant to Philadelphia, PA

The Common Ancestry of U.S. Senator Barack OBAMA,
2008 Democratic Candidate for the Presidency of the United States of America,
and Diana Gale MATTHIESEN

Martin STRAUB (1616-1676) & Margaretha STOERZBACH of Gemmingen and Grossgartach, Heilbronn, Wuerttemberg \| Johann/Hans Adam STRAUB (1666-1726) & Wife-2: Anna Barbara DETSCHLER \| Johann Pieter STRAUB I (1695- ) & Anna Maria Barbara HOFFMAN 1733 immigrants to Philadelphia, PA
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\| Johann Pieter STRAUB II (1724-1804) & Catharine Elisabetha __?__	\| Johann Philip STRAUB (c1730s- ) & Barbara __?__
\| Andrew STRAUB (1770-c1826) & Barbara __?__	\| John STROUP (c1764-1832) & Mary STEELY
\| Andrew S. STRAUB (1797-1858) & Wife-2: Nancy CUPP	\| William STROUP (1785-1863) & Ann THOMAS
\| Andrew S. STRAUB (1797-1858) & Wife-2: Nancy CUPP	\| John A. STROUP (1814-1851) & Eliza Jane CLEMMENS
\| George Washington STRAUB (1846-1927) & Sarah E. CORBIN	\| Jacob Mackey DUNHAM (1824-1907) & Louise Eliza STROUP
\| George Washington STRAUB (1846-1927) & Sarah E. CORBIN	\| Jacob William DUNHAM (1863-1936) & Mary Ann KEARNEY
\| Albert Roy STRAUB (1879-1969) & Nina WILLIS	\| Ralph Waldo Emerson DUNHAM (1894-1970) & Ruth Lucille ARMOUR
\| Arthur Robert MATTHIESEN (1918-2006) & Nina Gale STRAUB	\| Stanley Armour DUNHAM (1918-1992) & Madelyn Lee PAYNE
\| Diana Gale MATTHIESEN (1942-)	\| Barack Hussein OBAMA, Sr. (1936-1982) & Stanley Ann DUNHAM (1942-1995)
	\| Sen. Barack Hussein "Barry" OBAMA, Jr. (1961- )

(Both Arthur Robert MATTHIESEN and Stanley Armour DUNHAM served in WWII in Germany.)
When first compiling this lineage comparison it struck me that I should be in the same generation as Barack OBAMA's mother, Ann DUNHAM, as 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, I found we 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 an HTML table won't allow me to space them out accurately (to scale) through time, and I haven't the time (or inclination) to create the graphic image necessary to do so.