Ancestry

Are You My Cousin?

Megan Smolenyak | Posted 11.16.2009 | Living

Read More: Family Tree, Genealogy, Michelle Obama, Ancestry, Living News
Megan Smolenyak

If your family ancestry includes the last name Davis, Easley, Humphrey, Johnson, Jumper, Laws, McGruder, Morehead, Moten, Robinson, Shields, Thornton, Tinsley or Wade, then you may be related to Michelle Obama.

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Michelle Obama Descended From Young Slave Girl and White Owner

Marlene H. Phillips | Posted 10.07.2009 | Politics

Read More: Michelle Obama, Michelle Obama's Slave Ancestry, Mixed Race, Ancestry, Civil Rights, Politics, Us-News, Genealogy, Politics News
Marlene H. Phillips

First Lady Michelle Obama's great-great-great grandmother, a 14-year-old slave girl named Melvinia, was impregnated by a white slave owner.

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Michelle Obama: Family History Of First Lady Is Complex, Tied To Slavery

The New York Times | RACHEL L. SWARNS and JODI KANTOR | Posted 10.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Relatives, Dolphus Shields, Great-Great-Great-Grandparents, Melvinia Shields, First Lady, Michelle Obama, White Father, Ancestry, Slavery, Roots, Slave Mother, Family History, Michelle-Obama-Ancestry, Politics News

Melvinia Shields, the enslaved and illiterate young girl, and the unknown white man who impregnated her are the great-great-great-grandparents of Mich...

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A Sort of Hajj: The Pull of Ancestral Homelands

Daniel Cubias | Posted 02.13.2009 | Living

Read More: El Salvador, Latinos, Travel, Immigration, Hispanics, Family History, Hajj, Motherland, Homeland, Political Activism, Ancestry, El Salvador Junta, Ancestral Heritage, Travel Destinations, Hitlist, Living News
Daniel Cubias

With all the dream destinations in the world that I have yet to conquer, why am I hung up on visiting a tiny country best known for warfare and which my family abandoned a generation ago?

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