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Kaplan: The line from first black slave to Barack Obama
Genealogists at Ancestry.com announced recently the strong likelihood that Obama is a descendant — the 11th great-grandson, to be exact — of John Punch, who in 1640 became the first black person to be legally defined as a slave. This lineage comes …
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Librarian links to digitized genealogy books
Help me! I'm out here in the Internet, and I can't stop reading old digitized books. My misadventure began when blogger Dick Eastman recently told his readers about a retired Clarkston, Mich., librarian who wanted to help folks find Genealogy books. I …
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The link, genealogists with Ancestry.com said Monday, is, in fact, through an …
SALT LAKE CITY – A team of genealogists has found evidence that President Barack Obama could be a descendent of an African slave — but not through the lineage of his black father, the most likely route researchers had followed and exhausted. The link …
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