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Album Might Have a Presidential Tie
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/06/arts/design/at-antiquarian-book-fair-photos-of-obama-ancestors.html?_r=3Article snips:
Ian Brabner, an Americana dealer in Delaware, is bringing an 1870s photo album that he says has a presidential connection to the New York Antiquarian Book Fair, opening Thursday at the Park Avenue Armory. Last year at a Maryland estate auction, Mr. Brabner said, he unwittingly bought images of maternal ancestors of Stanley Ann Dunham, President Obama’s mother, in Kansas and Ohio.
The brown leather book, with gold-colored clasps, contains 35 pictures. Handwritten inscriptions mention the Wolfley, Preston, Jager and Abbott families. Mr. Brabner said a few people were clearly labeled, including Anna Wolfley, the president’s great-great-great aunt, and Elmer Preston, a distant Obama cousin.
“Future scholarship or facial recognition technology may identify further kinship ties to Mr. Obama from many of the album’s photographs,” Mr. Brabner wrote in a label for the book fair.
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Christopher Challender Child, a specialist in Obama family research at the New England Historic Genealogical Society in Boston, said Mr. Brabner’s research agreed with findings over the years and the album discovery was newsworthy. He added that Anna Wolfley’s resemblance to President Obama was “really uncanny.”
A White House spokesman declined to comment on the album.
A picture of Anna Wolfley, from an 1870s album of photos that its seller, Ian Brabner, says are of ancestors of President Obama’s mother.
The brown leather book, with gold-colored clasps, contains 35 pictures. Handwritten inscriptions mention the Wolfley, Preston, Jager and Abbott families. Mr. Brabner said a few people were clearly labeled, including Anna Wolfley, the president’s great-great-great aunt, and Elmer Preston, a distant Obama cousin.
“Future scholarship or facial recognition technology may identify further kinship ties to Mr. Obama from many of the album’s photographs,” Mr. Brabner wrote in a label for the book fair.
...
Christopher Challender Child, a specialist in Obama family research at the New England Historic Genealogical Society in Boston, said Mr. Brabner’s research agreed with findings over the years and the album discovery was newsworthy. He added that Anna Wolfley’s resemblance to President Obama was “really uncanny.”
A White House spokesman declined to comment on the album.
A picture of Anna Wolfley, from an 1870s album of photos that its seller, Ian Brabner, says are of ancestors of President Obama’s mother.
I agree with Christopher Challender Child. President Obama does resemble her.
