I just told my family on my dad's side on FB that we are related to

[kestrel91316]

President Obama via one particular line among our common midwestern ancestors.

I await the fireworks, as at least a couple of cousins support Rmoney.

ETA: Our family lines diverged about 200 years ago.

[kestrel91316]

1. On the up side, I suppose this will allow me to find out who the

teabaggers in my family are.

[freshwest]

2. And avoid cornfields. Or whatever they grow in Kansas... Muahaha.

[AverageJoe90]

3. That is pretty frickin' awesome, man. nt =D

[davidpdx]

4. I'm curious how you went about that?

I unfortunately don't know much of my family history, so it would be harder for me. All of my grandparents are gone now as is my father. I'm sure I could probably try to look at my grandfather's side as there were some (gasp, horror) Mormons. I recently found a very distant cousin on my mom's side after the death of my grandfather who knows a lot about that side of the family. I've never met him, but we've emailed back and forth a bit.

[kestrel91316]

5. I have had the good fortune to have Mormons and therefore genealogists on my dad's side, and

a family member who is a crack genealogist on my mom's side. That, plus Ancestry.com, was all it took. I was playing around looking up Obama's ancestors 3 or 4 years ago and came upon a common surname to both our trees that is uncommon enough and kind of unique to one swath of the south/midwest, and got suspicious. I confirmed that he belongs to the branch of that family that DIDN'T go west with the Mormons. Ours did.

[kestrel91316]

6. Hey if you want, I can look stuff up for you on ancestry.com - I have a current subscription.

With all the census available up through 1940, it's often not hard to find out a LOT of new stuff. I do it for my employees when things are slow at the office sometimes.

You can PM me if you want and I can sniff around today to see what I can fine.