The Hawaiian-born, half-Kenyan leader of the “free world” is a direct, 13th-generation descendant of one of the Plymouth colony’s earliest settlers, Thomas Blossom. […] His family moved from Great Shelford to Stapleford two years after Thomas was born.

Obama family tree has roots in Cambridgeshire village — Cambridge News online

Great Shelford is the small village I grew up in. (Stapleford is the next village along.) Small world, Mr President. Via: cambridge-news.co.uk.