Also Charles Lindbergh, John Q. Adams and a bunch more that I can’t think of right now.

Part of the fun digging through the past is to see where it goes.

Two days of researching online, and I found out that her husband and myself are 5th cousins. This was a friend my wife grew up with through highschool, now they’re both extremely happy to realise that our daughter and her three kids are now 6th cousins.

I also found this interesting because Warren Buffett’s ancestry has ties to my own. His Buffett side originated in Newfoundland. In my own tree there are a few Buffett’s married into my family.

It’s also not that surprising that Obama has German routes. Lots of German’s settled North America in the 1700′s.

Thanks for the article.

I absolutely love being able to access Ancestry.com even if it’s with only periodic subscriptions when allowed by budgeting…

Below is an interesting idea that maybe your bosses might consider for future works.. it would be of great benefit where all in the world could really join hands to help each other…

If we the people could somehow join a linked up section in Wikipedia with ancestry.com and give birth to #16 David Smith’s suggestion.. “Set up a page, linked to the announcement, with all of the research and documentation, including examples of where researchers could have gone astray if they weren’t careful i.e. running into two people with the same name and similar birth dates.” [of course we would need to use Wiki's documentation guidelines structure to help keep us sane and to help avoid junkology]

I’m sure $ donations are always welcome/needed for funding any type of project, because that is what makes the world go round; and the only way to avoid being swallowed-up by corporate hunger of the ever-loving $ …. is… is… I have no clue, but there’s got to be a way as evidence by “Wikipedia founder, Jimmy Wales” dream of… “Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet has free access to the sum of all human knowledge.”

Wish I knew how to give rise to something like David suggested! Kudos to you man

oh.. btw, I notice that Wikipedia does not let bigoted, rude people publish such ill-mannered comments on their pages …. as appears to happen regularly through-out many of Ancesty’s blog articles.

These staffers genuinely want to help us. And we genuinely enjoy their work.

Personally since I DO pay for my subscription, let THE positive rule oer’ the negative! I’d like to see more respect and better manners when you people comment.

Next is not so much about people in this blog, but in reading lots of others…..if you need to ask /or complain about not being able to do this or that and can’t figure out the what and why’s … And you do have a negative experience – learn to talk/write nice. Come on people, lighten up with hatefulness and Don’t let frustration eat your brain.

This is like the global warming “science”. Let’s see the data upon which these results are based.

Until the research can be replicated, this is nothing but an interesting claim.

Btw, without proof of who his parents were, nobody can trace his family tree. Where’s the birth certificate? That’s the first place one has to start. You need a birthplace (hospital. and none has come forward) and a witness, like a delivering physician (again, none has come forward). Upon WHAT evidence did Ancestry.com base this research? There aren’t even census records later than 1930. Doesn’t genealogy rely upon documentation?