• On the 11th of February 1964, Sarah Louise Palin née
Heath was born in Sandpoint, Idaho to Sarah 'Sally' Sheeran and
Charles R. 'Chuck' Heath.

• Her mother was a school secretary and her father was a
science teacher and track coach.

• Palin was born and baptized as a Roman Catholic but
raised as a Pentecostal Christian. Palin's family were Roman
Catholics but later joined the Wasilla Assembly of God, a
Pentecostal church. During an interview, Palin is said to have
described herself as a "Bible-believing Christian".

• Palin's lineage is firmly rooted in ancestry that dates
back to the 1600's in America with an impressive pedigree laden
with numerous pre-1650 immigrants from England.

• Her Mayflower ancestors include William Brewster, John
Howland, Stephen Hopkins, Joan (Hurst) Rogers, John and Elizabeth
Tilley and Richard Warren. She is also the descendant of Thomas
Prence, an early governor of Plymouth Colony.

• Palin's royal lineage claims William 1, King of Scots,
as an ancestor. She also descends from Henry III of England.

• Another of her more interesting ancestors is the Rev.
John Lathrop/Lothrop, a 1605 Cambridge University graduate who
was ordained as an Anglican priest in England but later joined
the dissenters to head a secret congregation in London.

• Anchorage radio host Dan Fagan says, "She's a hockey
mom, she lives on a lake, she ice fishes, she snowmobiles, she
hunts...she has a float plane," and in his opinion, "she's as
Alaskan as you can get".
		

• On the 4th of August 1961, Barack Hussein Obama was born
in Honolulu, Hawaii to a Kenyan father, Barack Hussein Obama Sr.
and an American mother, Stanley Ann Dunham.

• Obama highlights thus, the diversity of his family tree:
"It's like a little mini-United Nations. I've got relatives who
look like Bernie Mac, and I've got relatives who look like
Margaret Thatcher".

• Obama's parents met in 1960 at the University of Hawaii
and married in 1961 but soon divorced. Obama's father moved to
Connecticut before returning to Kenya, where he remarried and had
two more sons, David Ndesandjo and Mark Ndesandjo. Obama's mother
remarried an Indonesian, Lolo Soetoro and the family moved to
Indonesia along with Obama and his half-sister Maya Soetoro.

• In 1971, Obama returned to Honolulu to live with his
maternal grandparents, Stanley Armour Dunham and Madelyn, one of
the first female Vice-Presidents of the Bank of Hawaii. 

• Obama's maternal heritage consists mostly of English
ancestry, with traces of German, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Swiss
and French ancestry. His maternal grandfather is related to James
Madison, Harry Truman, Lyndon Johnson, Jimmy Carter, George H. W.
Bush and George W. Bush, who were all U.S presidents.

• Obama's paternal grandfather, Hussein Onyango Obama was
a Christian mission cook and herbalist who later embraced Islam.
Being an avid traveler, he had visited Europe, India and Zanzibar
while he was recruited to fight for colonial power England during
World War I.

• On his paternal side, Obama's lineage can be traced back
to the early descendants of the Luo tribal king.


• According 1850 Census records from Kentucky, Barack
Obama's great-great-great-great grandfather, George Washington
Overall, owned two slaves, a 15 year-old girl and a 25-year-old
man. The same records show that one of Obama's
great-great-great-great-great-grandmothers, Mary Duvall, also
owned two black slaves, a 60 year-old man and a 58 year-old
woman.