I'm sorry if you are offended but I have received many emails that descend from  these lineages that do appreciate the information. I am not talking about politics only genealogy. There are sources on this as William Addams Reitwiesner and Gary Boyd Roberts does genealogy on all of the Presidents and Vice-Presidents. They are people too with family and lineages just as well as everyone else does. That is because we all are human beings and genealogy belongs to all of us. .  I posted this as genealogy not politics. I repeat, this has nothing to do with politics but genealogy only. And there are many desecendants throughout Virginia and Maryland that descends from the Eltonhead, Sutton, Thacker  lines that I mentioned including myself. If we share a grandparent with someone in politics it is called genealogy not politics.   I talk about genealogy period as I have been involved since 1982 on both my Mother and Father's lines and this one is my Mother''s in VA. I also have other lines in Culpeper of Graves, Parks, Pulliam and before that these lines were is Orange and Spotsylvania of Pulliam and Holladay, etc.   Marianne Dillow   --- On Tue, 12/23/08, Haynes, Patricia A. <phaynes@fulbright.com> wrote: From: Haynes, Patricia A. <phaynes@fulbright.com> Subject: RE: [VACULPEP] Barack Obama Descends From Eltonhead Line To: vaculpep@rootsweb.com, mdillow31@verizon.net Date: Tuesday, December 23, 2008, 11:19 AM Excuse me, but please keep your political views to yourself. While there are no sources for this, it is entirely possible it is true, and if you are an Eltonhead descendent you might be interested. I've seen other Obama genealogies, and in fact, it has been reported on the news (don't know who did the research) that Obama and Cheney are distantly related. Genealogy is what it is, regardless of whether or not we like it. I do not intend to get into an e-mail dispute over this, but do feel that your comments are not warranted. Have a great holiday season! Patricia Haynes -----Original Message----- From: vaculpep-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:vaculpep-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Fern Sent: Tuesday, December 23, 2008 9:31 AM To: mdillow31@verizon.net; vaculpep@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [VACULPEP] Barack Obama Descends From Eltonhead Line This is a ridiculous bunch of trash and doesn't belong on this list or any other list - We all know where and how we got this man so let's not make up stupid stories.... fern ----- Original Message ----- From: marianne dillow To: VACULPEP@rootsweb.com Sent: Monday, December 22, 2008 10:40 PM Subject: [VACULPEP] Barack Obama Descends From Eltonhead Line Barack Obama also descends from Richard Eltonhead and Anne Sutton through Martha Eltonhead and Edwin Conway, Sr. through their daughter Eltonhead Conway and Henry Thacker, Sr. He descends from Martha Thacker that married Thomas Hickman. Martha is a sister to my Henry Thacker, Jr who married Elizabeth Payne. This is written by Gary Boyd Roberts from NEGHS Articles : "The best royal descent for Edward FitzRandolph is from William the Lion, King of Scotland, who died in 1214, via an illegitimate daughter, Isabel of Scotland, who married Magna Charta Surety Robert de Ros. The male line of the FitzRandolph/FitzRandall/ FitzRanulph/FitzRalph family is one of the very few that can be traced before the Norman conquest of 1066. The best royal descent of Martha Eltonhead Conway is almost certainly from Edward I, King of England (died 1307) through the Bohun, FitzAlan, Goushill, Stanley, Savage, Bold, Gerard, and Eltonhead families of medieval and early modern England." "As some of the above connections make clear, Senator Obama has a large number of distant notable cousins. The easiest to trace are the FitzRandolph, Duvall, and Eltonhead descendants. " "Eltonhead descendants include Richard Henry Lee and Francis Lightfoot Lee, signers of the Declaration of Independence, Continental Congress President Cyrus Griffin, Supreme Court Chief Justice Edward Douglass White, Jr., novelist John Dos Passos, Secretary of State Edward Riley Stettinus, Jr., and the wives of Revolutionary statesman Gouverneur Morris, Francis Scott Key, Edwin McMasters Stanton (Lincoln’s Secretary of War), and Senator Harry Flood Byrd. Kinships to living notables are now being traced. Tantalizing possibilities we wish to confirm further include astronaut John Glenn, actor Brad Pitt, filmmaker John Waters, and musicians Justin Timberlake and Loudon and Rufus Wainwright." Written by Gary Boyd Roberts Marianne Dillow