Punch Posted November 13, 2008 Share Posted November 13, 2008 Our local paper has a front page article this week about the great-great-great-great-great-grandmother of Obama , Mary Duvall, who was a slave owner in Laval (53). A bit of a tenuous link but neverthess interesting .A google search came up with a few other snippetshttp://dowdellresearch.blogspot.com/2007/03/tracing-that-family-tree-barack-obama.htmlhttp://www.duvallsociety.org/notables.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toni Posted November 13, 2008 Share Posted November 13, 2008 That is not the only place! http://www.rte.ie/news/2007/0315/obamab.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Will Posted November 13, 2008 Share Posted November 13, 2008 I don't know where Toni's link referred to - it came up with an error message, but Barack Obama (sorry, Bádhraic Ó Bamaigh) is Irish.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0xFWbarrscInteresting about the French links though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eos Posted November 13, 2008 Share Posted November 13, 2008 Toni's link is to the Irish national tv channel's news site, dated March 15, saying that Obama indeed is of Irish descent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Will Posted November 13, 2008 Share Posted November 13, 2008 Thanks - yes, it's working now.For the record, he apparently came from a place called Moneygall in Co Offaly.I'd like to learm more about the Laval connection. The border with the Mayenne dept is just a few km south of us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eos Posted November 13, 2008 Share Posted November 13, 2008 [quote user="Will"] For the record, he apparently came from a place called Moneygall in Co Offaly.[/quote]In common with the current Irish Taoiseach who, contrarily, is not enjoying a period of similar good will with his fellow country men! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Punch Posted November 14, 2008 Author Share Posted November 14, 2008 The Laval connection has taken up a full page of this weeks Courrier de La Mayenne and although I have not read the full article, it seems that their researcher in Genealogy, Jeanne Duval had already done reseach into her own tree and that is where she uncovered the link to Obama. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frederick Posted December 5, 2008 Share Posted December 5, 2008 It would appear that he had a grandfather who was suspected of being in the Mau Mau and Kenya's Colonial Police dragged him in and gave him a rough time ... So he has a family connection with a member who was brutally treated at the hands of the British... for being active in overthrowing British rule ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clarkkent Posted December 6, 2008 Share Posted December 6, 2008 [quote user="Punch"] Our local paper has a front page article this week about the great-great-great-great-great-grandmother of Obama , Mary Duvall, who was a slave owner in Laval (53). A bit of a tenuous link but neverthess interesting .[/quote]At the seventh generation there are 128 ancestors. It would be surprising if one of these were not French or Irish or Turkish or something. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loiseau Posted December 23, 2008 Share Posted December 23, 2008 I went round an exhibition in Gravelines (59) of works on paper by British sculptor Anthony Caro recently. I was very confused to see that a lot of them were called "Obama I", "Obama II" etc.It turned out that Obama is the name of a small town in Japan. I expect their local papers are claiming him as one of theirs, too! Angela Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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