{"id":73,"date":"2008-07-31T11:12:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-31T11:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogybank.com\/?p=73"},"modified":"2024-07-26T13:46:21","modified_gmt":"2024-07-26T17:46:21","slug":"wild-bill-obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wild-bill-obama.html","title":{"rendered":"Wild Bill Obama"},"content":{"rendered":"

May 27th was Wild Bill Hickok’s day – I wrote about how easy it is to find newspaper articles about him<\/a> in GenealogyBank<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\"Photo:<\/a>Wild Bill Hickok<\/a> is in the news again – when Barack Obama mentioned his family tradition that he was a distant cousin to Wild Bill – James Butler Hickok (1837-1876). <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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(<\/span>Photo: Texas Observer<\/em> Blog<\/span> 27 Feb 2007)<\/span> <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Don’t you love it when politicians talk about their genealogy!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

The <\/strong><\/span>New England Historic Genealogical Society does and issued a statement yesterday<\/strong><\/span> verifying Obama’s family tradition: <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Obama and Hickok are sixth cousins, six-times removed. Their common ancestor is Thomas Blossom, who came to Plymouth, Massachusetts in 1629 from Leiden, Holland. Obama\u2019s 4th great-grandfather, Jacob Dunham, was 6th cousins with Wild Bill. Obama\u2019s mother, Stanley Ann, is also a Dunham.<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe ancestry of Wild Bill Hickok was published by NEHGS some years back, which showed he descended from the Blossom family of Cape Cod, an early family written up in one of our scholarly publications,\u201d said Child. He added, \u201cSince we had also recently done the ancestry of Senator Obama, finding this connection was a little easier.\u201d <\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Wild Bill is related to Obama through his mother Polly Butler.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

May 27th was Wild Bill Hickok’s day – I wrote about how easy it is to find newspaper articles about him in GenealogyBank. Wild Bill Hickok is in the news again – when Barack Obama mentioned his family tradition that he was a distant cousin to Wild Bill – James Butler Hickok (1837-1876).     […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12713],"tags":[1808,3,845,5285,861,5291,682,1129,1656,12,1661,1758,1674,1829,5351,1067,1761,1874,747,5366,1038,625,1077,862,866,865,1083,5446,860,859],"class_list":["post-73","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genealogy-research-tips","tag-ancestor","tag-ancestry","tag-barack-obama","tag-butler","tag-cape-cod","tag-cousin","tag-england","tag-family","tag-family-tree","tag-genealogy","tag-genealogybank-2","tag-grandfather","tag-id","tag-in","tag-james","tag-massachusetts","tag-mother","tag-ms","tag-new-england","tag-news","tag-newspaper","tag-pdf","tag-plymouth","tag-senator-obama","tag-swan-island","tag-swan-island-library","tag-texas","tag-thomas","tag-wild-bill","tag-wild-bill-hickok"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99829,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73\/revisions\/99829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}