Barack Obama Family Tree

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"Former President Obama's half brother is an internet troll" is not what I expected on this fine day.

The name “Barack” comes from the Arabic name “Mubarak”, which is cognate to the Hebrew name “Baruch”. All of the names translate to “blessed”. Both names are also cognate to the Latin name “Benedictus”, commonly shortened to “Benedict”. So technically, Barack Obama, Baruch Spinoza, and Benedict Cumberbatch all have first names meaning the same thing.

Damn, Obamas dad really got around

I'm Kenyan and I come from the tribe of Obama senior ( obama's dad) called Luo, Obama is a luo name. In our Luo tribe, ladies' names start with letter A( you can see from my second name, Akinyi) and Men's name starts with the letter O. The names have meanings depending on the time, place, and the event that took place at the time of your birth. 😊

Ruth Baker - Mrs. Ndesandjo - ran the kindergarten that my siblings and I went to. She was a lovely lady.

i do thank you for the vindication; i clearly remember back around 2011 when President Obama made a state visit to Ireland i mentioned to some coworkers, he indeed visited his ancestorial village and everyone thought i was an idiot, soon after i realize they did not know he was bi-racial something i assumed everyone knew

Finally, we know Obama’s last name

I’ve just recently stumbled onto this channel and now I’m binging on the videos. We’re currently untangling our own family’s tree branches. We’ve uncovered some interesting stuff. We are descendants of Daniel Boone but we’re originally from Scotland. These charts here are fascinating.

I believe in 2012, Ancestry did a report on Barack Obama’s ancestry focusing on his mother family. It was about 50 pages long and included information about his mother likely having an ancestor named John Punch. They also included that a male relative of his mother with the last name Bunch had done a DNA test that confirmed the relative’s Y-chromosome was of West African origin and matched close enough to descendants of John Punch to suggest a strong likelihood of shared ancestry in the direct male line. John Punch was an enslaved man in Colonial Virginia who married a white woman prior to the passage of an “anti-miscegenation” law in the 1660s and they had children who took their legal status from their mother (partus sequitur ventrem) making them free people of color. Their children also became slave holders themselves and had interracial marriages. Today a large number of their descendants are white and many probably aren’t aware of their African ancestry. While it isn’t 100% certain, it is noteworthy that his white mother is very likely a descendant of an enslaved African man and had been described as the first official enslaved African slave in the 13 colonies, at least that can be documented in official legal documents.

How Obama senior landed in the USA is interesting His Cousin (died last week and will be buried ⚰ next Friday 23/12/2022) had the scholarship handed over to him by the missionaries. The mother of the cousin was ill and she didn't want the son to go to the USA When Obama senior learnt that his cousin has declined to go to the US.. He approached him if he can give him his chance The Cousin took him to the missionaries and pleaded with them to allow Obama senior take his chance That's how Obama senior got the ticket 🎫 to USA 🇺🇸 The cousin will be buried in Seme Ratta Village in Kenya next Friday.

I’m related to Obama on both sides of my family: The Punch/Bunch line on my dad’s side and the Browning line on my mom’s side. We are 9th and 10th cousins.

I am a 4th cousin to Mr Obama and just found that out this year after 51 years of life thanks to MyHeritage !

I would love to see genealogies based on the writings of Tolkien :)

What’s crazy is that for the longest time I thought Obama was African-American and Hawaiian 😭 Just 1-2 years ago I found he wasn’t even African-American nor Hawaiian.

*Incoming Obama last name memes

This really is a useful chart! I knew the Obama family tree was complicated but I had no idea the details! You presented it very clearly.

So informative and polite ... good job thank u!

Fun fact: Auma Obama was on last year's season of Let's Dance, the German variant of Dancing with the Stars.

I knew Kezia Obama very well and was saddened to hear of her passing last year. I used to enjoy our chats about Kenya and routinely spoke of back home. Her final years were full of pain. My god of mercy on her soul.