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Obama Shares Melungeon Ancestry with California Professor

Wednesday, September 21, 2011

San Diego State University professor D. Emily Hicks has traced some common ancestry with President Barack Obama. According to the professor of Chicana/o Studies, she and the President share Melungeon roots. Obama is a descendant of Mary Collins of Orange County, Virginia as well as of Nathaniel Bunch of Louisa County and John Bunch of New Kent--well known "feeder" counties for what became the Melungeon settlement described in Brent Kennedy's book, The Melungeons, The Resurrection of a Proud People.

Obama's Bunch line was found to carry E1b1a haplogroup, a sub-Saharan African male lineage. He is also supposed to have Cherokee ancestry in his mother's colonial genealogies.

Read the whole story at PRLOG.

More information about Melungeons
Toward a Genetic Profile of Melungeons in Southern Appalachia
Melungeon Studies
Melungeon Match

Comments

pamela commented on 07-Apr-2012 07:21 PM

hello i have been tracing my hertiage i am back 10 1595 and i am dirrectly linked to nathaniel bunch and john bunch my mothes maiden name is bunch john bunch was her great great grandfather and i am blonde hair blue eyed my mother looked native i am proud
to be a melundgeon and this is cool that i am related to obama


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