Anonymous ID: 0658a2 May 30, 2020, 4:25 p.m. No.9384289   🗄️.is đź”—kun

I always forgets about them swiss…

 

https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/obama-s-roots-traced-to-swiss-villager/15349746

 

OBAMA’S SWISS FAMILY TREE

Hans Gutknect (1692-1762) was born in Ried bei Kerzers and baptised in nearby Murten. He married Anna Barbara Kiefer. They moved to Bischwiller in France and had a son called Christian (1722-1795) who later emigrated to the United States, married Maria GrĂĽnholtz and changed his name to Goodnight.

 

Next in line was their son Samuel Goodnight who married Magdalena Berkeimer and had a daughter named Catherine who married Jacob Dunham.

 

Their son, Jacob Dunham, married Louise Eliza Stroup, and also named their son Jacob William Dunham.

 

He married Mary Ann Kearney who gave birth to Ralph Waldo Emerson Dunham.

 

He married Ruth Lucile Armour. Their son, Stanley Dunham – Obama’s maternal grandfather – married Madelyn Payne.

 

Their daughter, Ann Dunham married Barack Hussein Obama and had a child Barack Hussein Obama, the current US president.

 

Archivist Hans Herren also traced Obama’s family tree to a 12-year-old boy.

 

The grandson of Hans Gutknecht’s brother Peter had five children, one of which, Benedict, had a son Gottlieb, whose great-great granddaughter Dora married Albert Meyer and had a son, Stefan Meyer, whose grandson in turn is the youngest member of the family line.

 

The Fribourg cantonal archives certified the findings, stating that they resulted from “solid and well documented work” by Hans Herren.