More News about President Obama's Ancestry

"A research team from Ancestry.com, the world’s largest online family history resource, has concluded that President Barack Obama is the 11thgreat-grandson of John Punch, the first documented African enslaved for life in American history. Remarkably, the connection was made through President Obama’s Caucasian mother’s side of the family." 

You can read the full press release announcing Ancestry.com's findings here and The New York Times article which broke the story here.