The mini cakes, above, have been sold in Dresden for the last week, in honor of the President's visit to Germany. Bakers aren't the only ones who get busy whenever President Obama visits a new country; genealogists also go nuts, too. Now, in addition to all the other countries, time zones and ethnicities the President has, he's
German.
A team of genealogists in Utah scoured records
from the Family History Library in Salt Lake City, and found a document that went as far back as Obama's eighth great-grandfather on his mother's side.
One of the President's uncles on his mother's side, Charles Payne, now 84, was deployed with the 89th Infantry Division to Germany in World War II, and part of the force that liberated Ohrdru, a satellite of Buchenwald annihilation camp. German magazine
Spiegel has an in depth and fascinating interview with Mr. Payne about his experience,
here, in which Mr. Payne describes his life-altering experience as a very young man encountering the starving victims of the camp. He'll join the President today at a ceremony at Buchenwald.
The mini cakes, above, have been sold in Dresden for the last week, in honor of the President's visit to Germany. Bakers aren't the only ones who get busy whenever President Obama visits a new country; genealogists also go nuts, too. Now, in addition to all the other countries, time zones and ethnicities the President has, he's German. A team of genealogists in Utah scoured records from the Family History Library in Salt Lake City, and found a document that went as far back as Obama's eighth great-grandfather on his mother's side.
One of the President's uncles on his mother's side, Charles Payne, now 84, was deployed with the 89th Infantry Division to Germany in World War II, and part of the force that liberated Ohrdru, a satellite of Buchenwald annihilation camp. German magazine Spiegel has an in depth and fascinating interview with Mr. Payne about his experience, here, in which Mr. Payne describes his life-altering experience as a very young man encountering the starving victims of the camp. He'll join the President today at a ceremony at Buchenwald.
