Obama's 10-times great-grandparents were married in Scituate in 1637

[Bombtrack]

He should come by the South Shore sometime during the campaign. I dunno if Massachsutts primary will matter but I bet he can raise some money there.

http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/topics.cfm?tid=1554&id=503192007

... Using records of births, deaths and marriage it has been possible to trace Obama's family back to his 10-times great-grandparents Edward FitzRandolph and Elizabeth Blossom, who were married in Scituate , Massachusets, in May 1637.

FitzRandolph was one of the Pilgrim fathers, among the first permanent settlers from England to the New World, who had originally come from Sutton-in-Ashfield, Nottinghamshire. He was 27 to his wife's 17 when they wed, and Edward was 77-years-old when he died and Elizabeth 90.

His family were gentlemen farmers in England, but they could follow their ancestry back to William I, who was born in 1142 and was known as decent, if headstrong individual who was on the throne for almost 40 years until 1214. William enjoyed the second-longest reign of any Scottish king and is credited with founding Arbroath Abbey. ...

[MethuenProgressive]

1. Another Massachusetts Liberal!

His people beat mine here by 14 years! fwiw, my first New World ancestor was a Scot too, sent here an endentured servant after being taken prisoner by Cromwell in the English Civil War.

Other relatives apparently include astronaut, John Glenn, ex-British Prime Minister Harold MacMillan, and eerily, JonBenet Ramsey, the child beauty pageant queen whose 1996 murder in Boulder, Colorado remains unsolved to this day.

Worst of all, Obama "family roots" also take in John Hinckley, the would-be assassin of former US President, Ronald Reagan.

Yikes.

[Breeze54]

2. Liberals in 1637?? I seriously doubt that!

:silly: