I looked Barack Obama up on Rootsweb WorldConnnect Family Trees. His Dunham line is out of Nottinghamshire, Eegland back into the early 1500s. Sharon Centanne Eve Slater wrote: >Does anyone know where I can get the lineage? I am related to Obama through >his mother's Dunham line, and would love to be able to "add on!" > >-----Original Message----- >From: alsace-lorraine-bounces@rootsweb.com >[mailto:alsace-lorraine-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Judith Werner >Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2008 1:56 PM >To: alsace-lorraine@rootsweb.com >Subject: [A-L] Obama's Alsatian Roots > >American genealogists have traced Barack Obama's matrilineal line seven >generations to the Gutknescht family of Bischwiller, Bas Rhin, as >confirmed by the municipal archivist there: > > >http://www.europe1.fr/Info/Actualite-Internationale/Amerique-du-Nord/Les-rac >ines-alsaciennes-de-Barack-Obama/ > >Les racines alsaciennes de Barack Obama >Crii le 25/09/08 - Dernihre mise ` jour ` 17h43 > >En recherchant les racines du candidat dimocrate ` la Maison Blanche, >les ginialogistes amiricains sont remontis jusqu'` Bischwiller, une >petite ville du nord de l'Alsace dont l'archiviste municipal a confirmi >l'information. A la septihme giniration, la mhre de Barack Obama est >bien une lointaine descendante de la famille Gutknescht. > > > >Judith Werner >Salt Lake City, Utah, USA > > > > > > > >