Obama’s German roots

An employee of the Protestant parish in Besigheim points to an entry in the parish register in Besigheim, near Stuttgart, southern Germany on Thursday , June 4, 2009. According to parish records uncovered by experts at the genealogy Web site Ancestry.com, president Barack Obama’s 6th great-grandfather Johann Conrad Woelflin was born and christened in the parish in 1729. (AP Photo/Daniel Maurer)