This week the New York Times reported In First Lady’s Roots, a Complex Path From Slavery about Michelle Obama's ancestry. "This union, consummated some two years before the Civil War, represents the origins of a family line that would extend from rural Georgia, to Birmingham, Ala., to Chicago and, finally, to the White House. Melvinia Shields, the enslaved and illiterate young girl, and the unknown white man who impregnated her are the great-great-great-grandparents of Michelle Obama, the first lady."
In other genealogy news, the New England Historic Genealogical Society reports that Matt Damon and Ben Affleck are 10th cousins once removed and that Affleck is related to Princess Diana and 16 presidents, including Barack Obama (they are 11th cousins).
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