? John McCain?s family roots are Scotch-Irish. His great-aunt
was a descendant of Robert the Bruce, an early Scottish king.

? John Young, an McCain ancestor, served on General George
Washington's staff during the American Revolution.

? In 1848 the McCain clan relocated to Mississippi and number
of McCain's ancestors fought in the Civil War on the side of
the Confederacy.

? McCain's great-great grandfather, William Alexander McCain,
owned a plantation in Mississippi with 52 slaves.  According
to documentation from the Carroll County Courthouse, the
Carrollton Merrill Museum, the Mississippi State Archives and
the Greenwood, Mississippi Public Library and including slave
schedules from Sept. 8, 1860,  he owned slaves labeled either
?black? or ?mulatto? and ranging in age from 6 months to 60
years.  He later died during the Civil War as a soldier for
the Mississippi cavalry.		

• 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.