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: Barack Obama was born on August 4, 1961 in [[Honolulu, Hawaii]]. He is currently [[President-elect]] of the [[United States]].<ref>{{cite news |title=History of schooling distorted |last= Barker |first= Kim |work=[[Chicago Tribune]] |url=http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/yourmoney/ny-obama-making-2,0,6697655.story |date=25 March, 2007 |accessdate=October 29, 2008}}</ref>
: Barack Obama was born on August 4, 1961 in [[Honolulu, Hawaii]]. He is currently [[President Al-Quada-elect]] of the [[United States]].<ref>{{cite news |title=History of schooling distorted |last= Barker |first= Kim |work=[[Chicago Tribune]] |url=http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/yourmoney/ny-obama-making-2,0,6697655.story |date=25 March, 2007 |accessdate=October 29, 2008}}</ref>


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Obama Family
President elect Barack Obama with wife Michelle and daughters, Malia Ann and Sasha[1]
Current regionChicago, Illinois
Place of originUnited States
MembersBarack Obama, Michelle Obama, Ann Dunham, Barack Obama, Sr., etc.
Connected familiesObama, Robinson, Dunham, and Soetoro Family
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The family of Barack Obama are an extended family of English, Irish, African American, Indonesian, and Luo heritage known through the writings and political career of Barack Obama, the President-elect of the United States of America and former Senator from Illinois.[2][3][4] On January 20, 2009, Barack Obama will be sworn in as President of the United States, thus making Barack Obama, Michelle Obama, and their daughters Malia and Sasha the First Family of the United States. They will be the first First Family of African American descent.

Immediate family

Barack Hussein Obama
Barack Obama was born on August 4, 1961 in Honolulu, Hawaii. He is currently President Al-Quada-elect of the United States.[5]
Malia, Michelle and Sasha on stage at the 2008 Democratic National Convention
Michelle Obama
Michelle Obama, née Robinson, the wife of Barack Obama, was born on January 17, 1964 in Chicago, Illinois. She is a lawyer and was a University of Chicago Hospital Vice-President. She will be First Lady of the United States.
Malia and Sasha Obama
Barack and Michelle Obama have two daughters, Malia Ann and Natasha. Malia (Template:Pron-en) was born in 1998 and Natasha (known as Sasha, Template:IPAlink-en) was born in 2001. Sasha will be the youngest resident of the White House since John F. Kennedy, Jr. arrived as an infant in 1961. While their father was campaigning, his young children had busy schedules, as the Associated Press reports: "soccer, dance and drama for Malia, gymnastics and tap for Sasha, piano and tennis for both."[6][7] They both gave an interview to the television series, Entertainment Tonight, which President-elect Obama regretted allowing. In his victory speech on the night of his election, President-elect Obama promised Sasha and Malia a puppy to take with them to the White House.[8] Selection of a dog was complicated by the fact that Malia is allergic to animal dander.[9]On November 13, 2008, the Secret Service announced that Malia's and Sasha's code name will be "Radiance" and "Rosebud", respectively.[10] It was announced on November 21 that Sasha and Malia will be attending the private Sidwell Friends School in Washington, DC, the same school as attended by Chelsea Clinton, Tricia Nixon Cox, and Archibald Roosevelt. Georgetown Day School and public schools were considered but rejected. Both currently attend the University of Chicago Laboratory School. Sidwell is also where the grandchildren of Joe Biden attend school.[11][12]

Extended family - maternal relations

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File:Ann Dunham with father and children (enhanced).jpg
Right-to-left: Barack Obama and Maya Soetoro with their mother Ann Dunham and grandfather Stanley Dunham in Hawaii (early 1970s)
File:Madelyn Lee Payne Dunham.jpg
Photograph of Madelyn Dunham taken about 1950

According to Barack Obama's Dreams from My Father, his great-grandmother Leona McCurry was part Native American, which Obama believed Leona held as a "source of considerable shame" and "blanched whenever someone mentioned the subject and hoped to carry the secret to her grave"; whereas McCurry's daughter (Obama's maternal grandmother) "would turn her head in profile to show off her beaked nose, which along with a pair of jet-black eyes, was offered as proof of Cherokee blood."[13] To date, no concrete evidence has surfaced of Cherokee heritage. Obama's maternal heritage consists mostly of English ancestry, with much smaller amounts of German, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Swiss, and French ancestry.[2]

 
Ann Dunham
Mother of Barack Obama born in 1942, died in 1995. Birthname Stanley Ann Dunham. Anthropologist in Hawaii and Indonesia.
Madelyn Dunham
Barack Obama's maternal grandmother, born in 1922 and died on November 2, 2008.[14] She was a bank vice president in Hawaii.
Stanley Dunham
Grandfather of Barack Obama, born 1918, died 1992. World War II U.S. Army sergeant, furniture salesman in Hawaii.
Charles T. Payne
Great-uncle of Barack Obama, born 1925. Served during World War II in the U.S. Army 89th Infantry Division. Obama has often described Payne's role in liberating Buchenwald concentration camp. There was brief media attention when Obama mistakenly identified the camp as Auschwitz during the campaign.[15] Payne appeared in the visitor's gallery at the Democratic National Convention in Denver, Colorado, when his great-nephew was nominated for President. He was the assistant director of the University of Chicago's Library.[16][17]
Maya Soetoro-Ng
Half-sister of Barack Obama, born August 15, 1970, in Jakarta, Indonesia.[18] She is married to Konrad Ng, with whom she has a daughter, Suhaila. Maya Soetoro-Ng is a teacher in Hawaii.
Konrad Ng
Brother-in-law of Barack Obama, born 1974. A Canadian whose parents are Malaysian Chinese immigrants, he is an assistant professor at the University of Hawaii's Academy of Creative Media.[19] His parents are from Kudat and Sandakan, two small towns in Sabah, Malaysia, and he was born and raised in Burlington, Ontario.[20] He married Maya Soetoro-Ng at the end of 2003 in Hawaii.[21] They have one daughter, Suhaila.[22][23][24]
Lolo Soetoro
Stepfather of Barack Obama, born in Indonesia 1936, died 1987.

Extended family - paternal relations

The Obamas are members of the Luo, Kenya's third-largest ethnic group, which is part of a larger family of ethnic groups, collectively also known as Luo. This group belongs to the Eastern Sudanic branch of the Nilo-Saharan phylum. The Obama family is largely concentrated in the western province of Nyanza.

 
Barack Obama, Sr.
Barack Obama's father, born 1936, died 1982. Government economist in Kenya. Besides Senator Obama, Barack Obama Sr. fathered six other sons and a daughter.[25]
Hussein Onyango Obama
Barack Obama's paternal grandfather (c. 1895–1979);[26] he worked as a mission cook. He joined the British Army during World War I. (One source gives 1870–1975 as his dates of birth and death based on his tombstone reading "Mzee Hussein Onyango Obama" in his home village.[27] The term "mzee" is a Kenyan honorific meaning "old man" or "elder.") According to his third wife, Sarah, he originally was a Roman Catholic, but took the name Hussein when he converted to Islam; she said he passed the name, not the religion, on to his children.[28]
Habiba Akumu Obama
Barack Obama's paternal grandmother, and the second wife of Hussein Onyango Obama.
Sarah Obama
Paternal step-grandmother of Barack Obama, born 1922.[27] Also known, through the addition of her late husband's name, as Sarah Onyango Obama,[29] and sometimes referred to as Sarah Ogwel, Sarah Hussein Obama or Sarah Anyango Obama,[30] she lives in Nyang’oma Kogelo village, 30 miles west of western Kenya's main town, Kisumu, on the edge of Lake Victoria.[31][32]
Sarah Obama was the third wife of Obama's paternal grandfather, Hussein Onyango Obama (c. 1895-1979).[27] Although not a blood relation, Barack Obama nevertheless calls her "Granny Sarah".[30][33] Sarah, who speaks Luo and only a few words of English, communicates with Senator Obama through an interpreter.
On July 4, 2008, she attended the United States Independence Day celebrations in Nairobi, hosted by Michael Ranneberger, the US ambassador in Kenya.[34]
During the campaign she protested attempts to portray Obama as a foreigner or a Muslim, saying that while Obama's grandfather had been a Muslim, "In the world of today, children have different religions from their parents."[28] Sarah Obama herself is "a strong believer of the Islamic faith,” in her words.[35]
Kezia Obama
Barack Obama's step-mother, born c. 1940. She is Barack Obama Sr.'s first wife, whom he married in Kenya before studying abroad in the United States. Also known as Kezia Grace Obama.[36][37] She currently lives in Bracknell, Berkshire, England.[38]
Malik Obama
Barack Obama's half-brother, also known as Abongo or Roy, born c. March, 1958,[39] son of Barack Obama, Sr. with his first wife, Kezia.[40] Malik Obama was born and raised in Nairobi, Kenya.[41] He earned a degree in accounting from the University of Nairobi.[42] He met his half-brother for the first time in 1985[41] when Barack flew from Chicago to Washington, D.C. to visit him.[43] Malik and his half-brother Barack were best men at each other's weddings.[41] Barack Obama brought his wife Michelle to Kenya three years later, and they met with Malik again while Barack was introducing Michelle to many other new relatives.[44]
Although much of the Obama family has dispersed throughout Kenya and overseas, most, including Malik Obama, still considered their rural village on the shores of Lake Victoria to be their true home, and feel that those who have left the village have become culturally "lost".[45] A frequent visitor to the United States,[44] and consultant in Washington, D.C. for several months per year,[41] he nevertheless settled in the Obamas' ancestral home, Nyang’oma Kogelo, a village of several hundred people that he prefers to the city for its slow pace.[41] He runs a small electronics shop a half hour drive outside of town.[41] All of his father's other surviving children are living in the United States or England.[41]
During his brother's Presidential campaign, Malik Obama was a spokesman for the extended Obama family in Kenya, dealing with safety and privacy concerns arising from increased attention from the press.[46]
Abo Obama
Barack Obama's half-brother, born 1968. International telephone store manager in Kenya.
Auma Obama
Barack Obama's half-sister, born c. 1960.[47] As of July 2008, development worker in Kenya.[48] She studied German at the University of Heidelberg from 1981 to 1987. After her graduation in Heidelberg she went on for graduate studies at the University of Bayreuth, which awarded her a PhD in 1996. Her dissertation was about the conception of labor in Germany and its literary reflections.[48] Auma Obama lives in London, and in 1996 married an Englishman, Ian Manners. They have a daughter named Akinyi (b. 1997).[48][verification needed]
Bernard Obama
Barack Obama's half-brother, born 1970, son of Barack Obama, Sr. and his first wife, Kezia. He had been an auto parts supplier in Nairobi, Kenya, and has one child. Bernard converted to Islam as an adult and has said: "I’m a Muslim, I don’t deny it. My father was raised a Muslim. But it’s not an issue. I don’t know what all the hullabaloo is about."[49] He currently resides in Bracknell, England, with his mother Kezia.[49]
Ruth Ndesandjo
Born Ruth Nidesand, in U.S. c. 1940s, Barack Obama Sr.'s third wife and a private kindergarten director in Kenya.[50] Ruth's two sons with Barack Obama, Sr., are Mark and David Ndesandjo; her third son, Joseph Ndesandjo, was born c. 1980 from a subsequent marriage to a Tanzanian.[51][52]
Mark Ndesandjo
Barack Obama's half-brother, son of Ruth Nidesand and Barack Obama Sr.[53] He runs an Internet company called WorldNexus that advises Chinese corporations how best to reach international customers.[54] Mark studied physics at Stanford University, and has lived in Shenzhen, China, since 2002 and is married to a Chinese woman.[55]
David Ndesandjo
Barack Obama's half-brother, son of Ruth Nidesand and Barack Obama Sr. Killed in a motorcycle accident.[56]
George Hussein Onyango Obama
Youngest half-brother of Barack Obama, born c.1982, son of Barack Obama Sr.[57] and a woman named Jael (now a resident of Atlanta, Georgia).[58][59] George was six months old when his father died in an automobile accident, after which he was raised in Nairobi by his mother and a French step-father. He later lived in South Korea for two years while his mother resided there for business reasons.[58] Returning to Kenya, George Obama "slept rough for several years," until his aunt gave him a six-by-eight foot corrugated metal shack in the Nairobi, Kenya, slum of Huruma Flats.[58] As of August 2008, Obama was studying to become a mechanic.[58] George received little attention until being featured in an article in the Italian language edition of Vanity Fair in August 2008, which portrayed him as living in poverty, shame, and obscurity.[60] The article quoted Obama as saying that he lived "on less than a dollar a month" and stated that he "does not mention his famous half-brother in conversation" out of shame at his poverty.[61] In later interviews George contradicted this picture. In an interview with The Times, Obama "said that he was furious at subsequent reports that he had been abandoned by the Obama family and that he was filled with shame about living in a slum."[59] He told The Times, "Life in Huruma is good." Obama said that he expects no favors, that he was supported by relatives, and that reports he lived on a dollar a month were "all lies by people who don’t want my brother to win.”[59] He told The Telegraph that he was inspired by his half-brother.[58] According to Time, George "has repeatedly denied...that he feels abandoned by Obama."[62] CNN quoted him as saying, "I was brought up well. I live well even now. The magazines, they have exaggerated everything... I think I kind of like it here. There are some challenges, but maybe it is just like where you come from, there are the same challenges."[60] George's reported poverty was seized on by conservative critics of Barack Obama. Columnist Dinesh D'Souza solicited donations for George Obama from his readers,[63] while Jerome Corsi planned to give him a $1,000 check during a trip to Kenya (Corsi was expelled from the country by immigration authorities).[62]
Omar Obama
Half-uncle of Barack Obama,[64] born on June 3, 1944 in Nyang’oma Kogelo. Oldest son of Onyango and Sarah Obama, resides in Boston, Massachusetts.[citation needed]
Zeituni Onyango
Half-sister of Barack Obama Sr.,[65] born May 29, 1952, in Kenya,[66] Onyango is referred to as "Aunti Zeituni" in Senator Obama's memoir, Dreams from My Father.[67] Barack Obama first met Onyango in 1988 during his first trip to Kenya.[66] She worked as a computer programmer at Kenya Breweries in Nairobi during that period. Onyango suffers from a physical disability and uses a walking stick.[66] She claims to have visited the United States multiple times since 1975, and to have returned to Kenya each time.[66]
By 2008, Onyango had been living quietly in a South Boston public housing project, according to Boston Public Housing Authority officials.[68] William McGonigle, deputy director of the Authority, called Onyango a "delightful lady" and "a great resident" who did a "wonderful job" as a public health advocate. He commented that Onyango was "not looking for fame or notoriety, and we were as surprised as anyone to learn she was related to the Democratic nominee."[68] Onyango worked as a volunteer computer systems co-ordinator for the Experience Corps, a program in which adults over 55 mentor children in their communities.[66]
Onyango became the subject of media attention in the final week of the 2008 U.S. presidential election in which Barack Obama was the Democratic candidate. The impetus for the scrutiny was an article by the Associated Press, based on anonymous government sources, which reported that Onyango was living in the United States without valid immigration status, after being asked to leave the country when her request for asylum was denied.[69][70] Onyango's case resulted in a special nationwide directive within Immigrations and Customs Enforcement requiring any deportations to be approved at the level of ICE regional directors before the U.S presidential election[69] and led to an investigation by the Federal government to determine the source of the leaked information and whether any laws were broken by federal officials in the Bush administration or in the McCain campaign in disclosing information about her immigration status.[71]
Federal Election Commission records show that Onyango donated multiple times to her half-nephew's campaign; the records compiled by The Huffington Post show she gave a total of $260 to the campaign.[72] Since it is illegal for foreign citizens and immigrants without green cards to make political donations, the Obama campaign announced their intention to return the money.[73]
Yusuf Obama
Half-uncle of Barack Obama,[64] born c. 1950s in Nyang’oma Kogelo; son of Onyango and Sarah Obama.[citation needed]
Said Obama
Half-uncle of Barack Obama,[64] born c. 1950s in Nyang’oma Kogelo; son of Onyango and Sarah Obama.[citation needed]

Michelle Robinson Obama's family

File:Fraser Robinson, Sr.jpg
Fraser Robinson, Sr. (1884–1936) of South Carolina, shown in an old photo along with his wife, Rosella Cohen Robinson, in its background

Barack Obama has called his wife Michelle "the most quintessentially American woman I know."[3] Her family is of African American heritage, descendants of Africans of the American Colonial Era.[3] Michelle Obama's family history traces back from slavery to Reconstruction to the Great Migration North. Some of Michelle's relatives still reside in South Carolina.

Michelle's earliest known relative is her great-great grandfather Jim Robinson, born in the 1850s, who was an American slave on the Friendfield plantation in South Carolina. The family believes that after the Civil War he remained a Friendfield plantation sharecropper for the rest of his life and that he was buried there in an unmarked grave.[3]

Jim had two sons, Gabriel and Fraser, Michelle Obama's great-grandfather. Fraser had an arm amputated as a result of a boyhood injury. He worked as a shoemaker, newspaper salesman and in a lumber mill and was married to Rosella Cohen.[3] Carrie Nelson, Gabriel Robinson's daughter, now 80, is the oldest living Robinson and the keeper of family lore.[3]

At least three of Michelle Obama's great-uncles served honorably in the military of the United States. One aunt moved to Princeton, New Jersey, where she worked as a maid, and cooked Southern-style meals for Michelle and her brother, Craig, when they were students at Princeton University.

 
Fraser Robinson, Jr.
Michelle Obama's grandfather was born in 1912 in Georgetown, South Carolina, and died in 1996. He was a good student and orator, but moved from South Carolina to Chicago to find better work than what he could find at home, eventually becoming a worker for the United States Postal Service. He was married to LaVaughn Johnson. When he retired, they moved back to South Carolina.[3]
Fraser Robinson III
Michelle Obama's father, born 1935, died 1990.[74] He was a pump worker at the City of Chicago water plant.[3]
Marian Robinson
Michelle Obama's mother, birthname Marian Shields, born July 1937.[75] Secretary at Spiegel catalog. Robinson plans to move from Chicago to Washington D.C. with the First Family, to help care for her grand-daughters.[76]
Craig Robinson
Michelle Obama's brother, born 1962. Head coach of men's basketball at Oregon State University.[77]
Capers C. Funnye Jr.
Michelle Obama's first cousin once removed: Funnye’s mother, Verdelle Robinson Funnye (born Verdelle Robinson) and Michelle Obama’s paternal grandfather, Fraser Robinson Jr., were siblings. One of America's most prominent African American Jews, known for acting as a bridge between mainstream Jewry and African Americans.[78]

Family trees

Template:Family of Michelle Robinson

More distant genealogical relationships

See also: List of United States Presidents by genealogical relationship

According to genealogists, Barack Obama's distant cousins include the multitude of descendants of his maternal ancestors from all along the early-American Atlantic seaboard as well as Kenyan relations belonging to the Luo tribe, many descending from a 17th century ancestor named Owiny.[79][80] For example, George W. Bush, the current U.S. president, is the eleventh cousin of Barack Obama.[81] The New York Times science writer Nicholas Wade argues that with eleven generations leading back to their common progenitor, Samuel Hinckley, the relationship between the President and the President elect has no genetic significance.[82]

See also

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