Researchers Trace Obamas Family Back To First U.S. Slave

Researchers at Ancestry.com say President Barack Obama is the 11th great-grandson of the first African man to be declared a slave in America

The findings were released Monday after researchers spent two years tracing the family tree of Obama’s late mother, Ann Dunham, who was born Stanley Ann Dunham in Kansas in 1942. Dunham’s roots can be traced to a family, the Bunches, descended from a Virginia slave named John Punch.

Full story on RawStory