Who's related to Obama? The Chicago Sun-Times and Suntimes.com Reveal This Sunday A Fascinating Family Tree.The Sun-Times examines Presidential hopeful Barack Obama's diverse lineage in a package of comprehensive stories in this Sunday's Sun-Times and on suntimes.com CHICAGO -- Chicago Sun-Times This article is about the Chicago newspaper. For the Canadian newspaper, see Owen Sound Sun Times. The Chicago Sun-Times is an American daily newspaper published in Chicago. Political Editor Scott Fornek took a look at the family tree of presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama and found that Obama's diverse background needs a full orchard for all of its fascinating branches. And readers can learn all about it in the Controversy section of this Sunday's edition of the Chicago Sun-Times and online at suntimes.com. One of Obama's ancestors once accused a fellow New England New England, name applied to the region comprising six states of the NE United States—Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut. The region is thought to have been so named by Capt. colonist of witchcraft and later stole from the governor's house. Another had two brothers killed by American Indians American Indians: see Americas, antiquity and prehistory of the; Natives, Middle American; Natives, North American; Natives, South American. , who scalped one brother and kidnapped the other's daughter. Still another ancestor was said to have been slain by pirates. And yet another lost a son in the Civil War to pro-slavery bushwackers who torched the man's home and threw burning coals on his infant daughter. Obama has ancestors who were born in Kenya, England, Scotland, Ireland, France, Germany and the Netherlands. And today, he has seven half brothers and half sisters living across the world. 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