Barack Obama's family has been in America since the 1600s

[apples and oranges]

This should be shown to all the teabaggers and birthers.

From a post on Yahoo:

Barack Obama's mother Stanley Ann Dunham was born in Kansas. The Dunhams have been in America since the 1630's (name was Singletery) at that time... but, Jonthan Singletery moved from MA to New Jersey and changed his name to Dunham. Jonthan's niece, Susannah Singletery married Cpt Richard Bartlett whose first cousin, Gov Josiah Bartlett, was the second signer of the Declaration of Independence. Cpt Richard Bartlett was also first cousin of Gov Bartlett's wife, Mary Bartlett....who also happened to be the governor's FIRST COUSIN.

Some of you may recognize the name "Jed" Bartlett from the tv show Westwing. Jed's full name was Josiah Bartlett from New Hampshire...modeled directly from Gov Josiah Bartlett of New Hampshire, the signer.

PSS: Dick Cheney was a descendant of Anne Emery, aunt of Cpt Richard Bartlett's mother Hannah Emery....grandmother of the signer and of mother of Cpt Richard Bartlett who married Susannah Singletery who shared a grandfather with Barack Obama.

Barack Obama is more American than 99.9% of you...despite his father being Kenyan.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/trump_interview#mwpphu-container

[Tarheel_Dem]

1. Very good find. Thanks for posting. Rec. (nt)

[ejpoeta]

2. I really don't understand why this is an issue. even if he was born in kenya

HIS MOTHER IS AMERICAN.... and therefore he IS AMERICAN!! i am not yelling at you. I am yelling at those idiots that keep going on and on about this birth certificate bs.

[Matariki]

20. It has to do with the legal definition of "natural born citizen"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_Born_Citizen_Clause

[LoveIsNow]

3. Interesting

but I kind of object to the "more American than 99.9% of you" thing. Sounds kind of DAR/Birther elitist in and of itself.

[merbex]

6. I know a couple who are DAR( the husband sits on an appointed Historical board in my hometown)

and I served on an another committee with them. They said something disparaging about Obama BEFORE the election in '08 and I basically repeated all that info from above along with some local historical tidbits pertaining to that info and they almost S**t themselves.

They could barely walk.

Kept saying: What? WHAT???!!!

And I repeated that line( close to it anyway KNOWING it would just kill them since they place such value on the DAR and the Mayflower): he is more American than nearly everyone you know!

[nilram]

23. What a hoot! My partner's mom is a DAR (but one of the rare Dem ones) so I know how seriously

they take that stuff.

[monmouth]

4. Bartlett is also a big family name in South Jersey (Atlantic County)....n/t

[sarge43]

9. It's still a big family in NH, Bartletts all over.

President Obama has plenty of cousins in the Granite State.

[Ohio Joe]

5. It does not matter

They are racist douchebags that do not care about facts.

[Cali_Democrat]

12. Exactly. n/t

[kestrel91316]

7. FWIW, my assistant, President Obama, and I are all 7th cousins of each other

via our Allred ancestors.

[muntrv]

8. Won't matter to the teabaggers who only focus on his father. Fundy Franklin Graham

says Obama has "Muslim seed," like religion is genetic.

[elleng]

10. KNEW IT! LOVE Jed!!!

[elocs]

11. My family has been here since 1628, maybe my ancestors knew his.

Both started in MA.

[Pacifist Patriot]

14. My husband's family came to MA in 1620. We really should have a reunion at his place.

:evilgrin:

[elocs]

15. Really, how many people could there have been around back then?

Gotta thank the Mormons though for collecting all of that old genealogical information.

[Pacifist Patriot]

19. My husband really is a Mayflower descendent.

Not one of the Leiden Separatists though. My kids are always tickled when they see his ancestor's name mentioned in books about the Pilgrims.

I once got to go through some old documents that had been improperly stored in a south shore museum for generations. Fast forward about 16 decades...I held a Revolutionary War pension award for one of my husband's ancestors signed by John Jay in my hands.

My side of the family?

Let's just say debtor prison ships and bootlegging comes into the picture. We didn't keep records quite like my husband's family did. ;-)

[eShirl]

25. Many of them and their descendants had HUGE families.

and their descendants, and their descendants, and so on, and so on... to paraphrase the old shampoo ad

[malaise]

13. K & R

Nice find

[eShirl]

16. my ancestors have been arriving here since 7,000+ years ago on up to the 20th century

we're all family on this floating blue speck

"We are all connected: to each other, biologically; to the earth, chemically; to the rest of the universe, atomically."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGK84Poeynk

[Donnachaidh]

17. There's a good chance that any person with roots back to the 1600's

To be related in one way or another. We have family who came across in 1638, and one of the families practically founded several towns in Massachusetts and later Vermont.

Americans really need to stop being so damned stupid about *what* constitutes an *American*. It's embarrassing.

[Spider Jerusalem]

18. Obama and Cheney share another 17th century ancestor:

A French Huguenot named Mareen Duvall who emigrated to Maryland in 1650. Mareen Duvall is also an ancestor of Harry Truman, Wallis Simpson (the Duchess of Windsor), John Waters, and Robert Duvall (and also an ancestor of mine; Obama and I are tenth cousins).

[progressoid]

21. "more American"??

That's a ridiculous comment. First generation or fifteenth, it's all American.

[gaspee]

22. Be careful with

Your made-up stats. 99.9 %? Really? Here in Rhode Island, most of the people I know who have researched their heritage go back to the 1600's - myself included (DAR from 12 different ancestors and I'm a poor white Swamp Yankee.)

No one who isn't a racist or insane ever thought he wasn't an American and you're not going to get anywhere attacking DU'ers over it.

Can we please not resort to insulting other people when making a point?

[Warren DeMontague]

24. So has mine. Do I get a cookie, a medal, or some sort of prize?

No, actually, it doesn't fucking mean a thing.