President Obama Descends from 14 Revolutionary War Soldiers
An article by Rosemary E. Bachelor in the Suite101.com web site claims that
President Obama can count 14 Revolutionary War soldiers in his family tree. Indeed, the further back you go, the more ancestors you have in common with others. Hundreds of thousands of Americans share at least one of these ancestors with the President, making them distant cousins.
The article gives brief, one-paragraph biographies of each Revolutionary War soldier found in Obama’s ancestry.
You can read the full article at http://tinyurl.com/34ukoa3
via Eastman’s Online Genealogy Newsletter: President Obama Descends from 14 Revolutionary War Soldiers.
