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The family of Barack Obama, the 44th President of the United States of America, is made up of people of African American, English, Kenyan (Luo), and Irish heritage,[1][2] who are known through Obama's writings and other reports.[3][4][5][6] His immediate family is the First Family of the United States. The Obamas are the first First Family of African descent. Contents 1 Immediate family 2 Maternal relations 3 Paternal relations 4 Michelle Robinson Obama's extended family 5 Genealogical charts o 5.1 Ancestries o 5.2 Family trees 6 Distant relations 7 Index 8 See also 9 References 10 External links Immediate family Michelle Obama Michelle Obama, née Robinson, the wife of Barack Obama, was born on January 17, 1964, in Chicago, Illinois. She is a lawyer and was a University of Chicago Hospital vice-president. She is the First Lady of the United States. Malia Obama and Sasha Obama Barack and Michelle Obama have two daughters: Malia Ann /məˈliːə/, born on July 4, 1998,[7] and Natasha (known as Sasha /ˈsɑːʃə/), born on June 10, 2001.[8] They were both delivered by their parents' friend Dr. Anita Blanchard at University of Chicago Medical Center.[9] Sasha is the youngest child to reside in the White House since John F. Kennedy, Jr. arrived as an infant in 1961.[10] Before his inauguration, President Obama published an open letter to his daughters in Parade magazine, describing what he wants for them and every child in America: "to grow up in a world with no limits on your dreams and no achievements beyond your reach, and to grow into compassionate, committed women who will help build that world."[11] While living in Chicago, the Obamas kept busy schedules, as the Associated Press reports: "soccer, dance and drama for Malia, gymnastics and tap for Sasha, piano and tennis for both."[12][13] In July 2008, the family gave an interview to the television series Access Hollywood. Obama later said they regretted allowing the children to be included.[14] Malia and Sasha attend the private Sidwell Friends School in Washington, D.C., the same school that Chelsea Clinton, Tricia Nixon Cox, and Archibald Roosevelt attended and that the grandchildren of Vice President Joe Biden attend.[15] The Obama girls began classes there on January 5, 2009.[16] While in Chicago, both attended the privateUniversity of Chicago Laboratory School. In his victory speech on the night of his election, President Obama repeated his promise to Sasha and Malia to get a puppy to take with them to the White House.[17] The selection was slow because Malia is allergic to animal dander;[18] the president subsequently said that the choice had been narrowed down to either a labradoodle or Portuguese Water Dog, and they hoped to find a shelter animal.[19] On April 12, 2009, it was reported that the Obamas had adopted a six-month-old Portuguese Water Dog given to them as a gift from Senator Ted Kennedy;[20] the dog was named Bo by Malia and Sasha.[20] The White House refers to Bo as the "First Dog".[21] Marian Robinson Marian Robinson, Barack Obama's mother-in-law, resides in the White House. She is part of the Robinson family (see below). Barack and Michelle Obama and family Barack and Michelle dance at the "Obama Home States Inaugural Gala" at the Walter E. Washington Convention, celebrating his Inauguration. Left-to-right: Malia, Michelle and Sasha on stage at the 2008 Democratic National Convention The Obamas relax on a sofa in the Oval Office. The Obamas walking with their dog, Bo, on the South Lawn of the White House The Obamas on the campaign trail Maternal relations Right-to-left: Barack Obama andMaya Soetoro with their motherAnn Dunham and grandfatherStanley Dunham in Hawaii (early 1970s) Wikinews has related news: Barack Obama elected 44th President of the United States Grandmother of Barack Obama dies at 86 Barack Obama was raised by his mother Stanley Ann Dunham, called Ann, and grandparents Madelyn and Stanley Dunham.[22][23] He often referred to his family during his candidacy and term as President.[24][25][26] Ann Dunham Mother of Barack Obama, born in 1942; died in 1995. Born Stanley Ann Dunham, she was an American anthropologist who specialized in economic anthropology and rural development. She earned her PhD from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa and worked with the United States Agency for International Development, the Ford Foundation, and Women's World Banking, to promote the use of microcredit in order to combat global poverty.[22][27] The Ann Dunham Soetoro Endowment in the Anthropology Department at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa and the Ann Dunham Soetoro Graduate Fellowships at the East–West Center (EWC) in Honolulu, Hawaii are named in her honor.[28] Obama refers to his mother as the dominant figure in his formative years. "The values she taught me continue to be my touchstone when it comes to how I go about the world of politics."[29] Stanley Armour Dunham Stanley Dunham is the grandfather of Barack Obama. He was born in 1918 and served as a sergeant in the U.S. Army during World War II, enlisting just after the attacks onPearl Harbor. Stanley and his wife Madelyn raised Obama in Honolulu, Hawaii. In addition to Obama, Stanley is related to six US presidents: James Madison, Harry Truman,Lyndon Johnson, Jimmy Carter, George H. W. Bush, and George W. Bush.[30][31] He died in Honolulu, Hawaii, in 1992, and is buried at the Punchbowl National Cemetery. Madelyn Lee Payne Dunham Barack Obama's maternal grandmother was born in 1922 and died on November 2, 2008.[32] She was a bank vice president in Hawaii. Obama said that when he was a child, his grandmother "read me the opening lines of the Declaration of Independence and told me about the men and women who marched for equality because they believed those words put to paper two centuries ago should mean something."[11] According to Barack Obama's Dreams from My Father,[33] his great-grandmother Leona McCurry was part Native American, which Obama was told Leona held as a "source of considerable shame" and "blanched whenever someone mentioned the subject and hoped to carry the secret to her grave"; whereas her daughter (Obama's maternal grandmother) "would turn her head in profile to show off her beaked nose, which along with a pair of jet-black eyes, was offered as proof of Cherokee blood."[34] To date, no concrete evidence has surfaced of Cherokee heritage. Obama's maternal heritage consists mostly of English ancestry, with much smaller amounts of German, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Swiss, and French ancestry.[3] In July 2012, Ancestry.com published a report linking Obama through his mother to John Punch, believed to have been the first African enslaved for life in the Virginia colony, through a court punishment in 1640. Y-DNA testing of his Bunchdescendants suggest that he was from Cameroon in West Africa. Charles Thomas Payne Great-uncle of Barack Obama, younger brother of Madelyn Dunham, born 1925. Served during World War II in the U.S. Army 89th Infantry Division.[35] Obama has often described Payne's role in liberating Ohrdruf forced labor camp.[36] There was brief media attention when Obama mistakenly identified the camp as Auschwitz during the campaign.[37] In 2009, Payne spoke about this experiences: "Ohrdruf was in that string of towns going across, south of Gotha and Erfurt. Our division was the first one in there. When we arrived there were no German soldiers anywhere around that I knew about. There was no fighting against the Germans, no camp guards. The whole area was overrun by people from the camp dressed in the most pitiful rags, and most of them were in a bad state of starvation."[38] Payne appeared in the visitor's gallery at the Democratic National Convention in Denver, Colorado, when his great-nephew was nominated for President.[39] He was the assistant director of the University of Chicago's Library.[36] Ralph Dunham Great-uncle of Barack Obama, older brother of Stanley Dunham, born 1916. He served in the U.S. Army as an assignment and personnel officer during World War II, landing at Normandy's Omaha Easy Red Beach on D-Day plus four, working his way through France, Italy and Germany.[40][41] Lolo Soetoro The second husband of Ann Dunham and stepfather to Barack Obama, born in Indonesia 1936, died 1987. He is the father of Maya Soetoro-Ng. After his divorce from Dunham, Soetoro married Erna Kustina. She bore him two children, Yusuf Aji Soetoro (b. 1981) and Rahayu Nurmaida Soetoro (b. 1984).[42] Maya Soetoro-Ng Half-sister of Barack Obama, born August 15, 1970, in Jakarta, Indonesia.[43] She has another half-brother, Yusuf, and a half-sister, Aya, from her father's second marriage. She is married to Konrad Ng, with whom she has two daughters, Suhaila and Savita. Maya Soetoro-Ng is a teacher in Hawaii.[44] Konrad Ng Brother-in-law of Barack Obama, born 1974. He is of Malaysian Chinese descent,[45] and his parents are from Kudat and Sandakan, two small towns in Sabah, Malaysia. Ng and his younger brother, Perry, were born and raised in Burlington, Ontario.[46] Perry Ng works for the University of Ottawa.[45] He married Maya Soetoro-Ng at the end of 2003 in Hawaii.[47] They have two daughters, Suhaila[48][49][50] and Savita.[44] Konrad Ng is a US citizen.[51] He is an assistant professor at the University of Hawaii's Academy of Creative Media.[52] He studied philosophy at McGill University and cultural studies at the University of Victoria before he got his PhD from University of Hawaii at Manoa.[53][54] Robert Wolfley Barack Obama's great-great-great-grandfather.