Here is a family tree of Barack Obama, with the direct lineage: http://zeus.zeit.de/bilder/2008/31/leben/zeit-magazin-leben/obama-deutsch/obama-deutsch-popup-800.jpg Ewald ----- Original Message ----- From: "Eve Slater" <georgeandeve@embarqmail.com> To: <alsace-lorraine@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2008 9:01 PM Subject: Re: [A-L] Obama's Alsatian Roots > 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 > > > > > > > -- > Resources for Alsace-Lorraine list members: > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~valorie/Alsace-Lorraine-L.htm > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ALSACE-LORRAINE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message