RE: OT: Cheney, Obama, and Mareen Duvall connections

This story, in one form or another, has been floating around for months now (it was a topic of conversation among my cousins at a family event early in the summer and I know it was at least a small part of the earlier "is Obama Black enough" debate). In looking at Wm. Reitwiesner's page a little while ago, however, it looks like he's added more details on Obama's ancestry and connections since I last looked at it in June.

What I got tired of trying to explain to people who saw the story and asked me about it, assuming (rightly as it happened, but still it was annoying) that I must be part of the same Duvall family, was that this was not a case (as far as anyone can know) of Obama's Duvall ancestor being a master who raped a slave, but was instead simply an ordinary line of descent through his mother who happens to have been white...

Jeff Duvall

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From: gen-medieval-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx on behalf of Jack Linthicum
Sent: Wed 10/17/2007 6:33 AM
To: gen-medieval@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Lynne Cheney: Vice President Dick Cheney & Senator Barak ObamaAre Eighth Cousins



On Oct 16, 8:10 pm, "D. Spencer Hines" <pant...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
<http://thinkprogress.org/2007/10/16/lynne-cheney-dick-and-barack-obam...>

Of course, Mrs. Cheney may actually mean 7th cousins, or more generations.

Cheney is also reportedly a third cousin, twice removed, of former President
Harry Truman -- and even looks like Truman.

The common ancestors there are Robert Tyler [1751-1815] of Frederick County,
Virginia and Shelby County, Kentucky and his wife Margaret [1755-1840].

DSH

Lux et Veritas et Libertas

Deus Vult

http://www.tomroeser.com/blog/img/f23854/harry-truman-picture.jpg
http://www.af.mil/shared/media/photodb/photos/060413-F-0000J-011.jpg

yeah, right


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