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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI just found out my cousin is one of the most famous and beloved men in the world (really)
I recently found President Obama is my cousin! I could not be happier! An uncle of mine who is into genealogy gave me a printout showing that the President and I share the same great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great grandfather from my mothers and his mothers side. His name was Thomas Bloomfield (1617 - 1684). I have a printout of the family tree, but couldnt manage to post it.
Now I just need to figure out how to get on the invite list of President Obamas next family reunion.
DURHAM D
(32,610 posts)MLAA
(17,298 posts)GreenPartyVoter
(72,378 posts)mythology
(9,527 posts)onecent
(6,096 posts)sheshe2
(83,791 posts)MLAA
(17,298 posts)sheshe2
(83,791 posts)BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)He truly is the best, definitely earns and deserves the Universal love for him. I get choked up just thinking about him. ❤️
Hugs to you!! 😊
Ilsa
(61,695 posts)Just kidding - I wish I was lucky enough to claim this heritage. Really awesome!
Kirk Lover
(3,608 posts)can I borrow a 20?
grantcart
(53,061 posts)MLAA
(17,298 posts)BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)🤨
BoneyardDem
(1,202 posts).....you get to be related to Obama, you lucky dog! 👍
MLAA
(17,298 posts)who is famous. And I feel like I hit the jackpot. I feel so lucky right now, I bet if I looked up on my dads side Id find out I am related to Hillary!
3catwoman3
(24,007 posts)...is AWESOME! I am jealous.
Does the Mormon genealogy app have a particular name?
MLAA
(17,298 posts)Last edited Sat Jan 13, 2018, 02:55 PM - Edit history (1)
He is a member of the LDS church, so Im not sure if he has a different access than the free access mentioned on their website. But give this one a try.
Edited to update link:
familysearch.org
BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)MLAA
(17,298 posts)Dont know why previous link didnt work.
familysearch.org
BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)Later, Ill see if I can get anywhere with it. I know very little about my family. Folks never talked about anyone farther back than their own parents and siblings, and even that, over their entire lives, totaled not more than a sentence.
wishstar
(5,270 posts)My spouse is a 7th cousin of Barack Obama through Moses Teague, born in 1718 in Maryland and a slaveholder.. The website lists Moses Teague as ancestor of Obama and my own research elsewhere shows the same Moses Teague as an ancestor of Jimmy Carter too, so my spouse is 6th cousins to Jimmy. Spouse is also cousin of FDR and John Adams and U.S. Grant but we try not to think about the other less than stellar cousins who have popped up in my research!
MLAA
(17,298 posts)Scarsdale
(9,426 posts)souls who discover they are related to tRump? Or Cheney, or Ryan, McConnell, Cotton etc. CONGRATULATIONS to you, you lucky person with the great genes.
MLAA
(17,298 posts)Freedomofspeech
(4,226 posts)I love that man so much....a gentleman and a statesman.
malaise
(269,054 posts)I don't want to be related to him - I want to have his baby (at my age)!
Just let me know when I should plan to throw the 👶 🌦
malaise
(269,054 posts)BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)I just wanna give him THE biggest fattest giantest hug hes ever had in the whole wide world!!! And be BFFs forever. Best friends forever FOREVER!!
malaise
(269,054 posts)BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)airmid
(500 posts)who married Charles Salyer
MLAA
(17,298 posts)If you message me your outside email I can send you a pic of the family tree I reference. It only has Thomas Bloomfields children listed and the grandchild that I descend from, Sarah Bloomfield.
DoctorJoJo
(1,134 posts)StevieM
(10,500 posts)I can't imagine I am related to him, as no one in my family arrived in this country until the early 20th Century.
MLAA
(17,298 posts)keithbvadu2
(36,828 posts)MLAA
(17,298 posts)malthaussen
(17,204 posts)Wounded Bear
(58,667 posts)rusty fender
(3,428 posts)Hope you get to meet him someday
MustLoveBeagles
(11,611 posts)Lucky you
left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)And my right wing siblings would tremble.
trackfan
(3,650 posts)So I guess she's sort of a distant double-cousin. Unfortunately, she has Cheney in there too.
MLAA
(17,298 posts)DM me with your external email address if you want to and I will send you/her a copy of the family tree I referenced.
TalenaGor
(1,104 posts)My mom got all into geneology....she announced one day that she'd traced us back to Adam n Eve lol!
MLAA
(17,298 posts)samnsara
(17,622 posts)former9thward
(32,023 posts)Maraya1969
(22,483 posts)MLAA
(17,298 posts)Love the penguin video. Have you seen the Geico commercial with the 2 penguins using GPS to get to the breeding grounds? It is my current favorite.
pnwmom
(108,980 posts)MLAA
(17,298 posts)Spider Jerusalem
(21,786 posts)which makes Harry Truman, Robert Duvall, the Duchess of Windsor, Dick Cheney (ugh) and John Waters my cousins, also.
MLAA
(17,298 posts)Cha
(297,307 posts)Good on ya!
6 Degrees of President Obama!
Tarheel_Dem
(31,234 posts)whathehell
(29,067 posts)jimmil
(629 posts)and it turns out they came over on the Mayflower. I thought that was really cool until I found out something like 20% of the people in the US can trace their ancestry back to the Mayflower. I'm not so special after all. My father's side came over as an indentured servant (he had stolen some pies and got caught) and was bailed out of prison, taken to America (Maryland, Prince Georges County, 1670), and worked for 9 years as a servant. Afterwards he worked enough to buy a farm and become fairly prosperous. I have copies of his will even.
MLAA
(17,298 posts)Ive been meaning to go to ancestry.com and found out about where my ancestors came from.