Barack Obama's English Relatives Whose Lives Are A World Apart From The White House
Charles Blossom, a former lecturer in automotive engineering at Loughborough University, discovered on Saturday that he is a distant cousin of President Barack Obama.
Genealogists have traced the family roots of the 44th US President back to a seventeenth-century Pilgrim settler who emigrated from England to America as one of the founding fathers of the colony of Plymouth, Massachusettes.
They found that President Obama is the 13th-generation descendant of Deacon Thomas Blossom, who was born in the village of Great Shelford, Cambridgeshire, around 1580.
Research by Charles Blossom, 63, and his close family had already revealed that they, too, are related to Thomas Blossom.
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Genealogists have traced the family roots of the 44th US President back to a seventeenth-century Pilgrim settler who emigrated from England to America as one of the founding fathers of the colony of Plymouth, Massachusettes.
They found that President Obama is the 13th-generation descendant of Deacon Thomas Blossom, who was born in the village of Great Shelford, Cambridgeshire, around 1580.
Research by Charles Blossom, 63, and his close family had already revealed that they, too, are related to Thomas Blossom.
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