Barack Obama Family Tree

2022 ж. 22 Қыр.
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Charts & Narration by Matt Baker
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    @UsefulCharts@UsefulCharts Жыл бұрын
    • Have you done one on Kamala Harris yet?

      @MichaelSidneyTimpson@MichaelSidneyTimpson Жыл бұрын
    • Yup. kzhead.info/sun/a9V_Xa2uiqOul30/bejne.html

      @UsefulCharts@UsefulCharts Жыл бұрын
    • @0:01 I am here and back to give some nightmares at @UsefulCharts once again. He better have made a detailled map of Obama's patrilineal lineage. Edit (yeah, so soon!) : @1:56 the name of this body of water is now (and has always been) officially *Lake Nyanza (or Nyanza)* . Not *Victoria.* We are not great fans of colonial names in most African countries. Second Edit: @2:28 Not forcibky an erroneum, but Baraka rathers refers to its Swahili meaning (which is exactly the same in Arabic) . Obama is a princely Luo surname - as Luo people dwelling east of Nyanza doesn't have a monarchical system of kinglets and united kingdoms, but rather of Principalities and High Chieftainships. Well, I disgress-- - which means "Fiery Celestial Javelin" and holds homonymous kinship to various Central African royals from the Great Lakes region/Central Northeast Africa and the Congo basin, such as the Ilunga/Olenga Dynasty sho reigned over the Kingdom of Anzicana and some of his fiefdoms from early 14th century AD to its dissolution by colonial European powers around 1885-1891; and many others via intermarriages between Nilotic headships and other royals in Middle African, as well as a common royal BaChwezi heritage between Obama's patrilineal lineage and various Central African royalties dating back to the Chwezi Dynasty of the Kitara Empire (c. 630 AD - early 14th century AD) . Thus, Baraka Obama roughly means _"Holy Fiery Javelin Descending From Heaven"_ , a very powerful naming laden with ancestral mystical significance in Africa. At last, I see that you've stopped the genealogical tree of Obama's paternal line to his grandparents. Bery dissapointing. We can literally trace Obama's patrilineal ancestry back to his 8th great-grandfather 16th century Nyanza Acholi princeling and warlord Owinyi Rac Koma / Owinyi Ramogi of the Nyanza region (c. 1544 - c.1571) ; foremost founding headship of the Kenyan Luos east of Nyanza, son of Sigoma, son of Rukidi Rugwe/Mwiru & Princess Nyatooro, daughter of Princr Nyabongo, descendant of the princeling Olimi I of the Banyoro-Kitara, descendant of Rukidi I / Labongo who founded in 14th century the petty mixed Luo/Acholi/Chollo-and-Chwezi-descended kingdom of Banyoro-Kitara (14th century-late 19th century) which succeeded to the fallen Kitara Empire after overthrowing their Chwezi/Hima overlords. Obama's paternal heritage is very ancient and renowmed in Africa: we can trace his paternal origins not just to the Kenyan plains and hill-lands east of the Nyanza Lake, but also to the Kitara region, eastern DRC, the Nilotes of South Sudan and the Nuba Mountains, the Nobataes of Roman antiquity, the triumvirate of Christian Nubian kingdoms in present-day Sudan, ancient Kush, the Aksumite Kingdom/Abyssinia via the Jewish (later Christian) Aksumite kings of Adulis and Aksum in late 3rd century AD and 9th century AD Pagan-Jewish Empress Gudit alike (after their nation conquerred the Great Lakes region and East Africa twice over the 1st Millenium AD) , the Ethiopian Macrobian overrulers of the Azanian Empire in Hellenistic then Roman Antiquity, the Bagratidae Dynasty of 9th century Georgia and the South Caucasus region (via a second marriage between Gudit and a foreign "Syrian" or Georgian Christian prince) , Near Eastern royals of Antiquity and the early Middle Ages (including the Davidic Exilarchate) , the Hellenistic kingdoms, ancient Rome, ancient Numidia; and at last but not to say the least Pharaonic Egypt (thrice, via both his distant Upper Nile Chollo, Chwezi and Abyssinian-Bagratid heritage) , and moreso Puntite royalty dating back to the legendary tribal Anu Dynasty (Imanujela or Ba-Tembuzi Dynasty for others) of African prehistory, whom the latter legendary Anu-domineered House of Keb/Geb (fabled dynastic tribe whom the God Osiris and his brethren belonged to, in Egyptian mythology) was spawned forth.

      @ptolemeeselenion1542@ptolemeeselenion1542 Жыл бұрын
    • "University of Southern California"

      @porsche911sbs@porsche911sbs Жыл бұрын
    • You forgot Obama’s mother’s Dutch ancestry, with the line that goes through Djirksie Meyer and Enoch M Vreeland. My line also goes through the above two individuals, but that’s where it splits, as I’m a descendant of Enoch Vreeland and then his daughter, Eve, or Effie, or Effje. Different documents have her name spelled differently, but it’s clear she married a fellow name Anthony Maxwell. They had several children, Maria, who died as a small child, William, my ancestor, dying in the revolution, Cornelius Maxwell, a messenger to Congress and married Ruth Dunn, Enoch Maxwell, who served in the NY Militia, his likely twin sister, Mary Van Horn Maxwell, and Anthony Maxwell who served in Malcolm’s regiment and likely was part of the Battle of Trenton and Married eve Platner, and Eve Maxwell, who married into the Cronin family. William had a young son around the time the revolution broke out named Joseph. Then Joseph had a son named Anthony who may have been an explorer in and around the time of Andrew Jackson’s presidency. He possibly explored Glacier National park. His son, Joseph competed in Buffalo Bill’s Wild West show against Annie Oakley. His son William, worked on the railroad, and his son Robert, served in WAII.

      @kevinmaxwell9539@kevinmaxwell9539 Жыл бұрын
  • "Former President Obama's half brother is an internet troll" is not what I expected on this fine day.

    @LARKXHIN@LARKXHIN Жыл бұрын
    • Was going to like but didn't want to mess up the nice number

      @austinhuntington4266@austinhuntington4266 Жыл бұрын
    • Every president has that one family member or in-law that makes a public embarrassment of themselves during their administration. Jimmy Carter had his brother, Billy. Bill Clinton had his two brothers-in-law. Barak Obama has Malik. Although, Malik didn't take off until later.

      @BrandonVout@BrandonVout Жыл бұрын
    • He's amazing. Outing his corrupt CIA bush family bred puppet.

      @survivaloftheconscious@survivaloftheconscious Жыл бұрын
    • And an orange slime supporter to boot.

      @mojo3453@mojo3453 Жыл бұрын
    • @@austinhuntington4266 you can like now

      @ihateroxy2.024@ihateroxy2.024 Жыл бұрын
  • 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.

    @crystalp7242@crystalp7242 Жыл бұрын
    • Wow this just openend my mind.

      @axolotl-guy9801@axolotl-guy9801 Жыл бұрын
    • This is the kind of funfact I read the comments for! 😁

      @zithira2848@zithira2848 Жыл бұрын
    • I don't think "barack" and "baruch" are related to benedict although they're related to each other). Benedict comes from the Latin "bene" (well) and "dictus" (said or spoken), which also means "blessed" but its minor similarity to the two related Semitic words (baruch and barack) is a coincidence.

      @skellagyook@skellagyook Жыл бұрын
    • So we had a president that had the name Benedict. Neat.

      @BeefJherky@BeefJherky Жыл бұрын
    • And yet he's totally evil... so odd.

      @jan_phd@jan_phd Жыл бұрын
  • 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. 😊

    @lucyakinyi5128@lucyakinyi5128 Жыл бұрын
    • They've taken out son,tell them that in Africa a male child belong to the father 😂😂

      @vijananarutomovement7625@vijananarutomovement7625 Жыл бұрын
    • It's also a Cameroonian name from the Beti tribe but i don't know the meaning i also know they also Share the name Djomo with Some Kenyan Tribes

      @fred.y3890@fred.y3890 Жыл бұрын
    • Me too ! Cheers

      @paulrozko4815@paulrozko4815 Жыл бұрын
    • The idea that Stanley Ann Dunham was pregnant by a Kenyan was a lie and the truth is that a married friend of her parents was the father of her unborn son. He was 54 years old and a notorious Communist named Frank Marshall Davis. He served as his son's mentor after Ann and Barry Soetoro returned to Hawaii from Indonesia.

      @leonardshevlin7260@leonardshevlin7260 Жыл бұрын
    • That is a really cool fact! I love the individuality of knowing that no one else is going to have the exact same name, due to the circumstance of time, place and events of a baby's birth! It's beautiful! I think we need more of this in the world!

      @kmpossible3233@kmpossible32338 ай бұрын
  • Damn, Obamas dad really got around

    @TheRikkarikna@TheRikkarikna Жыл бұрын
    • Three to five baby daddies is pretty standard I would say.

      @gnome2024@gnome2024 Жыл бұрын
    • With all those CIA ties, of course he did

      @survivaloftheconscious@survivaloftheconscious Жыл бұрын
    • @@gnome2024 in this case it's baby mommies since it was the father who had 4 wives.

      @ChatGPT1111@ChatGPT1111 Жыл бұрын
    • @@ChatGPT1111 well i believe he didnt marry every single one of them

      @shirleywang1973@shirleywang1973 Жыл бұрын
    • he was muslim so he was allowed by his religion to have 4 wives / lovers

      @reptile_loki@reptile_loki Жыл бұрын
  • 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

    @stpaley@stpaley Жыл бұрын
    • Since he does not claim his white side, it would be reasonable to not know he had any relations in Ireland.

      @beareeves4923@beareeves4923 Жыл бұрын
    • @@beareeves4923 i have to disagree with the term reasonable, i was around in 2008 and i do remember the news coverage of the campaign and there was talk about him being bi-racial

      @stpaley@stpaley Жыл бұрын
    • @@beareeves4923 the American media makes sure of that, as well. I agree with your assessment.

      @edwardcricchio6106@edwardcricchio6106 Жыл бұрын
    • @@beareeves4923 what does that even mean “claim his white side?” Has ever denied the existence of his mother and grandparents in his life? No. He is an African American with a White mother. Your comment is hideously inaccurate and just plain wrong.

      @ericboykin-hudler5031@ericboykin-hudler5031 Жыл бұрын
    • @@beareeves4923 So, because you are ignorant of the fact you claim he did not acknowledge them? Clearly you haven't been paying attention. He has always acknowledged them. But that point would be counter to your I'll informed opinion. Smh

      @caramelcandy5147@caramelcandy5147 Жыл бұрын
  • Ruth Baker - Mrs. Ndesandjo - ran the kindergarten that my siblings and I went to. She was a lovely lady.

    @MrAndywear@MrAndywear Жыл бұрын
    • Obama Sr. Used to bear her severely. That’s why she left.

      @adamw8469@adamw8469 Жыл бұрын
  • 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.

    @Lizablue0608@Lizablue0608 Жыл бұрын
    • welcome to the Useful Charts fan club :) , Matt and crew are very good at what they do. This is one of the channels that kept me occupied during the pandemic.

      @turingmachine4617@turingmachine4617 Жыл бұрын
    • @@turingmachine4617 Same

      @davidmilbourn6145@davidmilbourn6145 Жыл бұрын
    • On my mother's side, we are descendants of his wife Rebecca's sister...not sure if it was her sister Martha, or when her father married a second time, if he had children with his second wife. If it was with her sister Martha, then we would be some form of cousins, if so...hello cousin!

      @kmpossible3233@kmpossible32338 ай бұрын
  • 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.

    @CM-nq5ry@CM-nq5ry Жыл бұрын
    • I was surprised that that connection was not mentioned in the video. I also am allegedly descended from tne same enslaved man. Unfortunately, I have no proof beyond internet geneaology sites.

      @user-ix2zv8ry2p@user-ix2zv8ry2p Жыл бұрын
    • I was surprised it wasn’t mentioned as well but I understand why it wouldn’t be on the chart if it hasn’t been proven through documentation. I am a male line descendant of John Punch. It’s an interesting bit of history that illustrates how the colonial history of America wasn’t as cut and dry as we are taught. People make history and people are complex and multidimensional.

      @CM-nq5ry@CM-nq5ry Жыл бұрын
    • I was surprised also. I am a descendent of the bunch family and thought that would be mentioned .

      @tarahodges4573@tarahodges4573 Жыл бұрын
    • I found a link to John Punch as well. I thought it was so interesting.

      @WhitneysJourney@WhitneysJourney Жыл бұрын
    • I'm related to this line as well. I came here to see if this was in the comments yet.

      @sillymamacita3854@sillymamacita3854 Жыл бұрын
  • Finally, we know Obama’s last name

    @ohitsstar1241@ohitsstar1241 Жыл бұрын
    • It looks like in Kenya some people took their fathers first name as a last name so yeah thats where Obama comes from - like my last name, Johnson (apparently I had an ancestor named John sometime in the 16th century.)

      @MichaelJohnson-vi6eh@MichaelJohnson-vi6eh Жыл бұрын
    • @@MichaelJohnson-vi6eh its nice to meet you, john obama

      @ohitsstar1241@ohitsstar1241 Жыл бұрын
    • @@MichaelJohnson-vi6eh alright, now we need to find someone called Obama Obama

      @sheikchilli8670@sheikchilli8670 Жыл бұрын
    • @@RealJeep was he adopted by his stepfather?

      @MichaelJohnson-vi6eh@MichaelJohnson-vi6eh Жыл бұрын
    • @@MichaelJohnson-vi6eh No, he wasn't.

      @lh384@lh384 Жыл бұрын
  • 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.

    @Agemus6139@Agemus6139 Жыл бұрын
  • 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.

    @Josh_Fredman@Josh_Fredman Жыл бұрын
  • So informative and polite ... good job thank u!

    @fionassimbwa8805@fionassimbwa8805 Жыл бұрын
  • I am a 4th cousin to Mr Obama and just found that out this year after 51 years of life thanks to MyHeritage !

    @joannawright1114@joannawright1114 Жыл бұрын
    • I’m sorry to hear

      @richardloostburg2637@richardloostburg2637 Жыл бұрын
    • Poor you, I wouldn’t brag about that.

      @darlalove@darlalove Жыл бұрын
    • Sorry for you

      @goldcoastlady5377@goldcoastlady5377 Жыл бұрын
    • @@richardloostburg2637 ikr. Imagine being related to a black man

      @Samuelj762@Samuelj762 Жыл бұрын
    • @@goldcoastlady5377 Why would you be sorry

      @adriantsien1867@adriantsien1867 Жыл бұрын
  • Fun fact: Auma Obama was on last year's season of Let's Dance, the German variant of Dancing with the Stars.

    @jensrettberg7968@jensrettberg7968 Жыл бұрын
    • I thought Auma lived in Germany

      @porsche911sbs@porsche911sbs Жыл бұрын
  • 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.

    @ahmedjama8307@ahmedjama8307 Жыл бұрын
  • I would love to see genealogies based on the writings of Tolkien :)

    @centimarsiosolas6971@centimarsiosolas6971 Жыл бұрын
    • It's in The Silmarillion.

      @rogerstone3068@rogerstone3068 Жыл бұрын
    • But I want to see nice fancy charts made by UsefulCharts. That is the whole point of the channel.

      @centimarsiosolas6971@centimarsiosolas6971 Жыл бұрын
    • ​@@centimarsiosolas6971 W

      @2345mat@2345mat Жыл бұрын
  • So many videos! First the Reddit one, and now this!

    @ruyfernandez@ruyfernandez Жыл бұрын
    • Shhhhh. That's a secret :)

      @UsefulCharts@UsefulCharts Жыл бұрын
  • Here’s a good suggestion: “Who’s the best claim to become Emperor of Mexico”. There could be a case for Moctezuma’s descendants, one of the Hasbourgs, or a relative of Iturbide.

    @revertrevertz5438@revertrevertz5438 Жыл бұрын
    • Maximilian von Götzen-Iturbide (Maximiliano II), great-great-great-grandson of Agustin I.

      @Gena_Tsidrusni@Gena_Tsidrusni Жыл бұрын
    • @john tower 🤮

      @revertrevertz5438@revertrevertz5438 Жыл бұрын
  • *Incoming Obama last name memes

    @rfan9340@rfan9340 Жыл бұрын
    • Ok

      @SiriusSphynx@SiriusSphynx Жыл бұрын
    • His last name is Biden. Just look at the 2008 campaign posters, they all say “Obama Biden.”

      @justinc.5591@justinc.5591 Жыл бұрын
    • ....frick I literally actually did it before scrolling down. I salute you sir.

      @samwill7259@samwill7259 Жыл бұрын
    • How did people not know Obama is his the surname and Barack is his forename?

      @modmaker7617@modmaker7617 Жыл бұрын
    • Obama’s last name is “care” everyone knows

      @zfish1995@zfish1995 Жыл бұрын
  • What an interesting story, as usual, well done :-)

    @xuedi@xuedi Жыл бұрын
  • 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.

    @dineroaddict@dineroaddict Жыл бұрын
    • His father was from Africa & his mother was American. Doesn't that make him African American at least partially?

      @evatripp7788@evatripp7788 Жыл бұрын
    • @@evatripp7788 No. The term ‘African-American’ only applies to black people who descend from chattel slavery/slaves in the United States. If we were to consider him to be an African-American, that would be contributing to the erasure of our ethnicity.

      @dineroaddict@dineroaddict Жыл бұрын
    • @@dineroaddict What is eroding your ethnicity are african governments, what does it have to do with America? The slave trade never endangered your ethnicity, in fact it enriched a kingdom or two in West Africa boasting it's ethnicities. An african american is a born american with african ancestry, just as an european american. You have to be millennial to see racism everywhere! We are all descendants of slaves but the europeans were in deed one of the 1rst civilizations to abolish it and the marriage with 12 year old children.

      @buteos8632@buteos8632 Жыл бұрын
    • Well as buteos8632 below pointed out, Obama is and American of African and European decent. Specifically he is of Kenyan/Irish/English decent just as someone can be of German/ English/Italian decent, born in America. This is what makes America Great.

      @bprince9663@bprince96635 ай бұрын
  • 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.

    @yourev100@yourev100 Жыл бұрын
    • How did he get a Becky?

      @hen5526@hen5526 Жыл бұрын
    • @@hen5526 he had rizz ofc

      @den4199@den4199 Жыл бұрын
    • I saw Barrack Obama say he was born in Kenya and I saw a picture of his Hawaiian birth certificate. The problem is, the hospital named on his Hawaiian birth certificate was not built until,2 years AFTER Barrack was born! Therefore he was an ILLEGITIMATE president!

      @myccream@myccream7 ай бұрын
    • Stop lying. He was part of a scholarship airlift organised by the late Tom Mboya RIP.

      @nairobichik@nairobichik6 ай бұрын
    • @@nairobichik Do you have receipts for the Airlift or just believing in mainstream narrative. You can visit the Family and confirm

      @yourev100@yourev1006 ай бұрын
  • Very interesting! I learned something today! Thanks

    @travelguy1564@travelguy1564 Жыл бұрын
  • 3:04 I noticed the Luo Script being used for the Obama surname🙌🏾

    @thari_za@thari_za Жыл бұрын
  • My gramma did our family tree lineage about 20 years ago when it was much harder to find answers. We've got traced back as far as 800 AD (yes you read that correctly, 800), and then she decided that was enough. This video was fascinating to me. Thanks!!

    @bladesausteel@bladesausteel Жыл бұрын
    • wow, do you have any tips?

      @strawbami@strawbami Жыл бұрын
    • Where are you from ? Precisely … because it is very doubtful she can go back so far, even in Europe, except for royalty. No offense but sounds like family legend.

      @sebastienh1100@sebastienh1100 Жыл бұрын
    • @@sebastienh1100 Well seeing as I have printouts of the information she has found it isn't exactly "family legend" and I will tell you I am from Canada, myself, but my full, extended family is on every continent on Earth, minus Antarctica.

      @bladesausteel@bladesausteel Жыл бұрын
    • @@bladesausteel - I don’t understand what you are trying to say. My simple question is, when you say you go back to 800 AD, in which country is it? I suppose if you are from Canada it must be in Europe - which country and region in Europe? If you cannot answer that, it is a problem.

      @sebastienh1100@sebastienh1100 Жыл бұрын
    • @@sebastienh1100 I'm sorry, I interpreted your question as "where am I myself from." My gramma has found people throughout what is now England and Scotland, and there are even relatives from France. I am about 50 generations removed from some medieval kings. But if you're from England, everyone is distantly related to a king or queen.

      @bladesausteel@bladesausteel Жыл бұрын
  • Hey Matt Baker , I'd like to see a video on a timeline of invented products. like when the automobile was invented. the plane, the toaster, vacuum, phone, TV, frisbee, or even telescope and microscope . I think that would be sooo cool!

    @NEEDFULSTRINGSLLC@NEEDFULSTRINGSLLC Жыл бұрын
  • i love these family tree videos. You got to do one on the Rock and his family. Crazy how many samoan wrestlers come out of that 1 lineage.

    @nickcvet89@nickcvet89 Жыл бұрын
  • Shout out from South Africa. I love your channel and was fascinated by the work you did on the Zulu people. When you have time could you please make a video on Xhosa people. I'm from the same clan as Nelson Mandela and I assume he could be a good place to start.

    @mivuyonkabi5780@mivuyonkabi5780 Жыл бұрын
    • A video about Trevor Noah would be pretty cool!

      @gateauxq4604@gateauxq4604 Жыл бұрын
  • I'm 35 and was raised by my great grandparents. I dont need to do a test for that... I think its wild when I meet someone that never met their great grandparents. Everyone around me, has and were somewhat raised by them lol.

    @lar-zd9rs@lar-zd9rs Жыл бұрын
  • I wasn’t expecting such a spicy story tho

    @Emymagdalena@Emymagdalena Жыл бұрын
    • I feel like everyone has pretty crazy (slightly messed up) family stories 🤣😭😭

      @truefalse934@truefalse934 Жыл бұрын
  • Can you pls search family tree of Mark Rutte, vp from the Netherlands? Tyvm

    @Kismet1955@Kismet19558 ай бұрын
  • Thanks 😊 for sharing

    @mutungiedmund2355@mutungiedmund2355 Жыл бұрын
  • Hey there, you made a mistake at 7:54. Maya is his HALF sister not his STEP sister. You got it right a few minutes before that. But somehow messed up there.

    @mikeross641@mikeross641 Жыл бұрын
  • You only discussed Ann's father's side of her family. Her mother had more than just English ancestry. Her ancestors were diverse: English, Irish, Scottish, German, French and some other European groups I may not be aware of. She was a descendant of an African(s) who were enslaved in the US. Further the family also has trace or very small amounts of Indigenous American from what is now a likely extinct tribe from the Eastern US. Her ancestors also would have had some Jewish and or Arabic ancestry. Ann was my 4th cousin which would have made former President Obana my 5th cousin. His African family is not the only ones to have experienced poverty. His American cousins on his mom's side also experienced it here in the US including a few who were actually homeless. Such is life.

    @rebeccacanales@rebeccacanales Жыл бұрын
    • He is your 4th cousin, once removed.

      @SandfordSmythe@SandfordSmythe Жыл бұрын
  • Great video!

    @SomeDude60@SomeDude60 Жыл бұрын
  • At 7:51, Matt said “step-sister,” but I think “half-sister” was meant And at 9:31, said “University of South California,” but probably meant “University of Southern California”

    @MadnessOfMonkeys@MadnessOfMonkeys Жыл бұрын
    • I also noticed the "step-sister" mistake.

      @vbrown6445@vbrown6445 Жыл бұрын
    • University of "South" California loooooool

      @paulstewartkim@paulstewartkim2 ай бұрын
  • It's been merely a few minutes but the video already has hundreds of views!

    @lukelee9994@lukelee9994 Жыл бұрын
  • Already loved this channel for its quality and well-researched content. But that you did this video, noted that Michelle is an American Descendant of Slavery and educated a huge subscriber base on the ethnic distinctions between the former first couple blew away my expectations. Great work as always.

    @SUIndian31@SUIndian31 Жыл бұрын
  • I literally got shocked when he said “Otaino” instead of Otieno

    @therealaidenplayz7836@therealaidenplayz7836 Жыл бұрын
  • Would love to see a video on the family tree of Joseph Smith, the head of the LDS church would be a great tree to talk about.

    @treyvlogs4471@treyvlogs4471 Жыл бұрын
    • At first I read LSD church and was like what, they made a religion out of this?

      @dorderre@dorderre Жыл бұрын
    • Joseph Smith Jr. is not the head anymore. He died in 1844. He was followed by Joseph Smith III, who was president of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (now known as Community of Christ), who was in turn followed and succeeded by his three sons: Frederick M. Smith, Israel A. Smith, and William Wallace Smith, the last of whom was succeeded by his son Wallace B. Smith.

      @daviddon6751@daviddon6751 Жыл бұрын
    • LOL bro I can confirm that tree will have way over 30,000 modern day relatives. I can say that cause my great great great grandparent was Parley P Pratt and trust me it's a lengthy list of relatives.

      @theoc007@theoc007 Жыл бұрын
    • Maybe where Joseph came from and going up the tree not down. That’s way too much

      @terarosen7909@terarosen79096 ай бұрын
  • Hi Matt! Please make a video on the succession or annexation of various Empires

    @johnhemsworth9939@johnhemsworth9939 Жыл бұрын
  • I went to a business conference in Nairobi in 2015, just prior to a visit there by President Obama. There were billboards and the local news, etc., discussing how they were going to welcome Obama "home" for a visit. So, I was in a cab one day during my stay there, and I began to relate how my family had some Dunham relations and Obama could very well be related to me (just conjecture on my part). Now, this Kenyan cab driver is looking at me, a very white American dude, who is telling him about possibly being related to Obama. The cognitive dissonance just slowly erased his grin from one side of his face to the other. He was, shall we say, confused.

    @johnalden5821@johnalden5821 Жыл бұрын
    • Did the taxi driver not know that Obama is Mixed Race?

      @darthwatson8274@darthwatson8274 Жыл бұрын
    • @@darthwatson8274 I don't think so. The folks over there just looked at the name and saw "Kenyan." And maybe they didn't much care who his mother is.

      @johnalden5821@johnalden5821 Жыл бұрын
    • @@johnalden5821 Wait till they find out that Obama is related to George Bush and Oprah is related to Elvis.

      @darthwatson8274@darthwatson8274 Жыл бұрын
    • Obama is related to every President from himself all the way to George Washington on his mother’s side.

      @ldc3214@ldc321410 ай бұрын
  • Great video mate.

    @hmutandadzi@hmutandadzi Жыл бұрын
  • What software do you use to create these charts?

    @TheMaster1237@TheMaster1237 Жыл бұрын
    • Microsoft word

      @hendrygmail4161@hendrygmail4161 Жыл бұрын
  • This is such a great video! I never knew that President Obama had all of those siblings from his father! I always wondered why his sister who was his mother’s other child was never around throughout his Presidency. Have you done the family trees of other presidents?

    @slycat2355@slycat2355 Жыл бұрын
    • She was around, but she doesn't live in DC. She lived in Hawaii with her husband and kids. How and why would she be hanging out in DC? When the Obamas went to Hawaii each year for their family vacations they would spend time with his sister and her family.

      @vbrown6445@vbrown6445 Жыл бұрын
    • All the presidents are related, they all have Irish blood, expect Trump who has more British blood

      @WrestleLuxury@WrestleLuxury Жыл бұрын
    • Let’s be honest. It probably wouldn’t matter what side his family was on, but if the media suspected that he wasn’t close to his family then negative press releases would be constant. That is not okay if it is over absolutely nothing. Family business should stay Family business regardless if it is a Democrat or a Republican politician.

      @ldc3214@ldc321410 ай бұрын
  • It's very interesting that they made a big fuss about him being Irish on his mothers side. Yet conveniently never mentioned the fact that he is actually of direct English descent on her side.

    @johnbrereton5229@johnbrereton5229 Жыл бұрын
  • Very informative 😊

    @donnah5378@donnah53782 ай бұрын
  • Very Interesting. Nice video. My mom always loved Obama but didn't know why. Know I think I know. My Heritage is an interesting website too. I always find obscure records there. And I found family from Australia too. Hilarious.

    @bobcharlie2337@bobcharlie2337 Жыл бұрын
  • The Obama Sr was close to my father. The original names of Malik and Auma are Roy and Rita .

    @glorianyambok7405@glorianyambok7405 Жыл бұрын
  • Very interesting! Did not know much about Obama's siblings.

    @mwmheps@mwmheps Жыл бұрын
  • There's been an interesting idea search our ancestor but one if I the islander ,how could I know where from during the very beginning of time?

    @stephenwindaister9073@stephenwindaister9073 Жыл бұрын
  • Interesting. Thank you.

    @nappykat73@nappykat73 Жыл бұрын
  • Where's Ryan Gosling in the Obama tree?

    @FRISHR@FRISHR Жыл бұрын
  • Did I miss something through this video? Nothing about Barry Soetero or Johanna A'nee?

    @ralorpa@ralorpa Жыл бұрын
    • This is a woke channel.

      @buteos8632@buteos8632 Жыл бұрын
  • Would it be possible for you to do a family tree for johny cash as I think I may be related to him

    @jimbo116252@jimbo116252 Жыл бұрын
  • Well done.

    @ProudMomof4kids@ProudMomof4kids Жыл бұрын
  • By the way, what is the script you used for the native spelling of "Obama"? Which language(s) is it used for?

    @ruyfernandez@ruyfernandez Жыл бұрын
    • It's the Luo script used to write the Dholuo language. It's the script used by the tribes around Lake Victoria (where the Obamas originate).

      @UsefulCharts@UsefulCharts Жыл бұрын
    • @@UsefulCharts well, I think it's cool that you give credits to one of those many emerging (and promising) african scripts. There was a moment when I was fascinated by that topic.

      @ruyfernandez@ruyfernandez Жыл бұрын
  • Wow I had no idea Obama had so many half siblings! This was interesting. Thanks!

    @loverrlee@loverrlee Жыл бұрын
    • African father 😂😂😂

      @sebastienh1100@sebastienh1100 Жыл бұрын
    • @@sebastienh1100 Means nothing. European fathers have more kids around the globe on their "business trips" or "boy's Holidays"

      @henryemele3147@henryemele3147 Жыл бұрын
    • @@henryemele3147 failing birth rates in Europe and NorthAmerica would like to dissagree

      @someguy4512@someguy4512 Жыл бұрын
  • Realizing this, It just makes the racist remarks towards Barack more hurtful. It seem like the racist knew about Obama's heritage and use it to demonize him. That is cruel.

    @juliopeinado2660@juliopeinado266011 ай бұрын
  • That’s an interesting version of the cert inserted there

    @twilso12@twilso12 Жыл бұрын
  • Fascinating. It would be ideal to see this depth prior to any presidential election.

    @TheSingularitarian@TheSingularitarian Жыл бұрын
    • Why?

      @chesterjade7630@chesterjade7630 Жыл бұрын
  • Could you do a video of Political dynasties or families?

    @thomasdixon4373@thomasdixon4373 Жыл бұрын
    • Some of their trees are on familysearch.

      @sr2291@sr2291 Жыл бұрын
    • @@sr2291 familysearch?

      @thomasdixon4373@thomasdixon4373 Жыл бұрын
    • Yes! A Family tree of the roosevelts would be fascinating

      @boopdino8053@boopdino8053 Жыл бұрын
    • @@boopdino8053 especially to see how Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt and Eleanor Roosevelt are all connected

      @thomasdixon4373@thomasdixon4373 Жыл бұрын
    • @@thomasdixon4373 They did a video on presidential connections for Presidents’ Day, and they touched on this (and it’s not even the closest familial relationship between presidents…excluding direct paternal lines). TL;DR: TR and FDR are fifth cousins. Eleanor is TR’s niece (his brother’s daughter), and as such, she’s FDR’s fifth cousin once removed,

      @cakt1991@cakt1991 Жыл бұрын
  • Awesome thanks

    @idaliagonzalez7945@idaliagonzalez7945 Жыл бұрын
  • I'm glad you distinguished that Barack Obama is not a Foundational Black American/ American Freedmen.

    @jaronpirtle5508@jaronpirtle5508 Жыл бұрын
  • Thanks for this video. It’s interesting that when tracing Queen Charlotte, there’s controversy about if her race is black and they got stuck on “black” instead realizing it’s about lineage.

    @jaypaladin-havesmartswilll5508@jaypaladin-havesmartswilll5508 Жыл бұрын
    • Lol, and she was hardly black. They have no idea what exactly her 15 great grandmother was exactly. It was a very mixed area.

      @dawnyockey1475@dawnyockey1475 Жыл бұрын
  • That family tree is a mess. Couldn't wrap my head around Sr having 2 more children with Kezia after moving back to Kenya with Ruth. I saw a meme many years ago that there's a memorial in South Carolina to a female slave that was an ancestor of Michelle, but I can't remember the name.

    @jadenthomas1169@jadenthomas1169 Жыл бұрын
    • Most family trees are a mess. Most families are messy.

      @TheHomerowKeys@TheHomerowKeys Жыл бұрын
    • Having looked at a great many family trees I can say with confidence that messy family trees are common.

      @TheDanEdwards@TheDanEdwards Жыл бұрын
    • Remember, Muslims are allowed to have four wives, and he did all this in a few years, so it's not too hard to believe Obama Sr. had two families going at the same time in Kenya.

      @CallieMasters5000@CallieMasters5000 Жыл бұрын
    • Her name is Melvinia Shields

      @slford80@slford80 Жыл бұрын
    • @@CallieMasters5000 hahaha i am a muslim and taking 4 wives/families is accepted as long as one can provide care for them all, Obama's father really didn't care for any it now seems (being not present during their childhood and physically abusing them)

      @abcdefghijkl4391@abcdefghijkl4391 Жыл бұрын
  • I share the same 9th great grandfather with Barack Obama ..William Teague .Can’t remember if it’s through the mother or father of Stanley Ann Dunham

    @Mydogpenny1970@Mydogpenny1970 Жыл бұрын
  • Can you make a video about the most senior member of king David?

    @JesusRodriguez-nr8zc@JesusRodriguez-nr8zc Жыл бұрын
  • You did not mention Michelle's brother. Based on a speech from Barak Obama in the Canadian Parliament 2016 before leaving office, Michelle's brother lives in Canada.

    @samsousayt@samsousayt Жыл бұрын
    • He's a basketball coach: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craig_Robinson_(basketball)

      @ChristopherPhan@ChristopherPhan Жыл бұрын
    • I meant to say something about him but totally forgot!

      @UsefulCharts@UsefulCharts Жыл бұрын
    • Search for Barack’s address at Canadian Parliament in 2016 ; he mentions that he visits « my brother in Law » who lives in Burlington, Ontario .

      @samsousayt@samsousayt Жыл бұрын
    • @@samsousayt again it’s because he’s a basketball coach. He still has a hone in Chicago (where he’s from) but it makes more sense to have a place near where he works. Stop reaching

      @slford80@slford80 Жыл бұрын
  • It's so painful to know that between the years of 1500 and 1850 many of us AAs do not know who the people are. We even know what tribes we descend from but we just don't know how.

    @omggiiirl2077@omggiiirl2077 Жыл бұрын
  • 10:00 sorry my English is bad what does "once removed" mean?

    @Central.IntelligenceAgency.@Central.IntelligenceAgency. Жыл бұрын
    • Not even Americans know what that means

      @n0limitmarz@n0limitmarz Жыл бұрын
  • Wow thats neat did not know myheritage can fill in family tree.

    @roselawrence56@roselawrence56 Жыл бұрын
  • Shouldn't Jacob Singletary Dunham be Jonathan Singletary Dunham? Also, he may or may not be a Dunham. His father was Singletary and his mother was Cooke, but he may be the child of Singletary's earlier wife whose last name was Dunham.

    @cal8354@cal8354 Жыл бұрын
  • Barack is also from the Swahili word "baraka" which means blessings. Swahili is Kenya's native language and it makes sense that Obama Sr. derived the name from his local dialect. Worth noting is that Swahili evolved from Arabic and in fact, many words are shared between the two languages. Examples: Salam aleikum (Swahili), salaam a’leikum (Arabic), Karibu (Swahili) and qareeb (Arabic), Salama (Swahili), Salaam (Arabic), halali (Swahili), halaal (Arabic), hasara (Swahili), khasaarah (Arabic), etc. So there's debate whether Barack came from the Swahili local dialect spoken by his father or Arabic since he had converted to Islam or both

    @anon5041@anon5041 Жыл бұрын
    • Swahili did not evolve from Arabic, it is a Bantu language that borrowed words from Arabic. Also while Swahili is now spoken throughout the county today as a lingua Franca, it is only natively spoken by the people of the east costal regions, the opposite end of the country from where Obama’s family is from.

      @thomaspatterson1789@thomaspatterson1789 Жыл бұрын
    • @@thomaspatterson1789 Obama's family is from the western side of the country around lake victoria. They are river-lake nilotes. The Luo tribe. Also, although linguistically categorised as a Bantu language, Swahili developed historically by borrowing a number of words from foreign languages, particularly Arabic. That's why I said it evolved from Arabic. Maybe I should have used a different word, but English is not my first language. Swahili is. Per Wikipedia, around 40% of the Swahili vocabulary consists of Arabic loanwords, including the name of the language itself (سَوَاحِلي sawāḥilī) meaning 'of the coast'. Swahili is predominantly spoken in Kenya and Tanzania and is no longer native ONLY to the coastal region or bantu communities. Many speakers esp those in urban areas speak Swahili as their mother-tongue. Kenya and Tanzania national anthems are in Swahili. I grew up speaking the language myself and am not a bantu or from the coast but it is my native/first language.

      @anon5041@anon5041 Жыл бұрын
    • But you said Swahili comes from Arabic which is simply not true. It's like I say that English comes from french just because English borrowed many words from french. And I do not believe Swahili is 40% Arabic. That's a bit of a stretch

      @sabcam2000@sabcam2000 Жыл бұрын
  • You should do “who would be king of Britain if oliver cromwell was crowned king”

    @disembodiednarrator@disembodiednarrator Жыл бұрын
  • Cool video. I'd love to see one on the Kennedys or President Biden.

    @NoUploadJustComment@NoUploadJustComment Жыл бұрын
  • yes besides the fact that obama’s dad was a kenyan and not of the african-american ethnicity, the real reason obama isn’t the first black president is because his mother is white. first biracial president is remarkable still though for sure. he still made history

    @tfh5575@tfh5575 Жыл бұрын
  • Barack is a cousin of mine. We are related through the Fitz Randolph tree and it goes back to Rollo the viking, VERY traceable. We have a castles and kings and queens.

    @spider46531@spider46531 Жыл бұрын
  • I believe I'm distantly related to Barack Obama through the Dunham side. Our common ancestor's last name is/was Terrell from Virginia.

    @languay1@languay1 Жыл бұрын
  • Couple ideas * April Fools 2022: A video on the Simpsons family, treating the whole thing as serious while also figuring out how to tackle the floating timeline * Serious: The Clintons

    @redjirachi1@redjirachi1 Жыл бұрын
  • @UsefulCharts, somewhere a while back, I got confused with Obama's maternal patrilineal line. I read somewhere his mom's surname would have been Bunch, which originally was Punch, via a freed or escaped African slave who married White, whose descendants also did so, leading to today, where there are thousands of Bunches who have an African Y haplogroup, but who are otherwise almost or are entirely European genetically. How did this story come into the story of Obama's maternal grandfather's line? I assume your scholarship is better than whoever shared that story. Obviously none of this matters in any real sense of things that racists would care about. As a genealogist, I just find stories of blending fascinating.

    @injunsun@injunsun Жыл бұрын
    • Punch/Bunch is on Obama's maternal grandmother's side

      @fomalhauto@fomalhauto Жыл бұрын
    • I just watch a video on the man that did the search on that. With bunch being punch. He did say he’s just assuming and it’s not proven. It was a video on I think abc if you’d like to search it

      @terarosen7909@terarosen79096 ай бұрын
  • Seems rather short.

    @robertkenney3005@robertkenney3005 Жыл бұрын
  • Wow Tnx bro good

    @farhanabdulhamid4214@farhanabdulhamid4214 Жыл бұрын
  • There's a slight inaccuracy. Rolla Charles Payne was the son of Della L Wolfley, not married to her. Rolla married Leona Belle McCurry.

    @user-vk2cd9qw7i@user-vk2cd9qw7i Жыл бұрын
  • Can you do a family tree on the Bush Family

    @therocknrollgamer9572@therocknrollgamer9572 Жыл бұрын
  • I have found MyHeritage Trees to have errors in them as the users did guesswork on incorrect information put in to start off with (Garbage In , Garbage Out)

    @highpath4776@highpath4776 Жыл бұрын
    • Like anything, it’s just a starting point. You need to verify.

      @ffotograffydd@ffotograffydd Жыл бұрын
    • I agree that many MyHeritage trees have errors in them, and you need to double check any information they supply. However, I have my tree on MyHeritage, because I have generally found it to be cheaper than other similar services like Ancestry.

      @briantowler971@briantowler971 Жыл бұрын
  • hii this is matt baker😊😝

    @Kiefer333@Kiefer333 Жыл бұрын
  • You couldn’t find a better picture of Grandma Sarah? Lol Grandma Sarah looks like Grandpa Sarah!

    @smileygimbel9445@smileygimbel94457 ай бұрын
  • Love the inclusion of the birth certificate.

    @SolarMechanic@SolarMechanic Жыл бұрын
    • I thought that was hilarious 😂 already anticipating certain triggered individuals

      @99_Planet@99_Planet Жыл бұрын
    • And it really wouldn't matter anyway with a mother that was an American citizen.

      @ChatGPT1111@ChatGPT1111 Жыл бұрын
    • Meh, Republicans will still think it is fake.

      @DGoldy303@DGoldy303 Жыл бұрын
    • @@ChatGPT1111 unless you look at the constitution and it says both parents have to be US citizens for someone to run as president

      @christinavance1128@christinavance1128 Жыл бұрын
    • @@christinavance1128 that’s not true at all. They just have to be a natural born citizen. Someone is a natural born citizen if they are born inside the US or if either of their parents is a US citizen, no matter where they are born.

      @aliensinnoh1@aliensinnoh1 Жыл бұрын
  • You should do a video about the many famous connections of Zachary Taylor

    @rhett1029@rhett1029 Жыл бұрын
  • 8:49 ayyy that’s my home town :))

    @PremierCCGuyMMXVI@PremierCCGuyMMXVI Жыл бұрын
  • Beitrag des Donnerstages, 28. September 2022 At least one of Ann Dunham´s male ancestors, lived in Württemberg (Germany). This place is located in today´s Circle of Ludwigsburg, next to Stuttgart.

    @maikotter9945@maikotter9945 Жыл бұрын
  • Can you do bush family tree next?

    @theshenpartei@theshenpartei Жыл бұрын
    • It's either a bush or a tree, it cannot be both at the same time.

      @ruyfernandez@ruyfernandez Жыл бұрын
    • @@ruyfernandez Shrub

      @highpath4776@highpath4776 Жыл бұрын
    • There is a bit on the are presidents related tree

      @highpath4776@highpath4776 Жыл бұрын
  • Thank you for an interesting video which has led me to find out former President Barack Obama is my 9th Cousin twice removed. Might be more connections with the Cook, Rolfe, Kearney, Allred sides. Genealogy is so interesting. Thanks again. I love the posters I bought. Hugs!

    @OldLady-um9kt@OldLady-um9kt Жыл бұрын
    • You have my condolences

      @pskarnaq73@pskarnaq73 Жыл бұрын
    • @@pskarnaq73 Your parents and ancestors have mine.

      @OldLady-um9kt@OldLady-um9kt Жыл бұрын
    • @@OldLady-um9kt not needed. As far as I know, I don't have a relative who killed America.... but thanks!

      @pskarnaq73@pskarnaq73 Жыл бұрын
    • @@pskarnaq73 True, your linage is probably just peasants who made no impact: positive or negative.

      @yumad9830@yumad9830 Жыл бұрын
    • @@yumad9830 even if that were true, it would be better than being a relative of B Hussein Obama

      @pskarnaq73@pskarnaq73 Жыл бұрын
  • There's at least one internet troll in every family...

    @carriemoreno5647@carriemoreno56479 ай бұрын
  • Fun fact: I'm related to Obama through the Irish part of his mother's side. I'm pretty sure my mother said we were 5th or 6th cousins.

    @Nycticora@Nycticora9 ай бұрын
  • You should do all the other presidents family trees

    @breischlasticinc.5615@breischlasticinc.5615 Жыл бұрын
  • Yet another prez with an ancestor that was a first generation settler in America. Interesting.

    @screwthenet@screwthenet Жыл бұрын
    • legit the founding fathers had the exact same thing

      @silas6740@silas67403 ай бұрын
    • Exactly. Plus most of them were freemasons, so...yaaaah...theres a lot of intrigue and manipulation when it comes ot politics in our world and hisotry, as we all no doubt would agree. I hate it T

      @screwthenet@screwthenet3 ай бұрын
  • I am confused I thought Barry Obama biological Father's name was Frank Marshall Davis, but Obama past history never cease to amaze me!!!

    @Alfamale-xs4ev@Alfamale-xs4ev2 ай бұрын
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