Feb 5, 2007 07:06 AM




KAILUA-KONA, Hawaii (AP) - A Big Island genealogist has discovered presidential hopeful Senator Barack Obama has some ancestral ties to the White House and colonial Virginia. Bruce Harrison, founder of the Waikoloa-based Family Forest Project, says he found links between the Democratic senator from Illinois and Presidents George Washington, James Madison, Harry Truman and Jimmy Carter. Harrison's searched the ancestors of Osama's mother, Ann Dunham, dating back many centuries. He says the research shows Dunham having a number of her ancestral pathways leading back to early colonial Virginia and New England, and some extend back for many centuries into Europe. One of her ancestral pathways leads to one of Osama's 12th great grandfathers, the Honorable Laurence Washington, who over the course of five centuries became the ancestor of Washington, Carter and others.
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What? He's not related to the Kennedys???