The nation's first African-American president may be descended from America's first documented slave

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9. The Bunch y-DNA Project

... Thus far the project has identified 1 major lineage along with 3 incipient lines -- what I will call "proto-lineages." Interestingly, all three of the proto-lineages appear to have have ties back to Kentucky or Tennessee suggesting a possible Melungeon connection, but beyond that commonality (and the shared surname), there appears to be little linking them ...

Given that the surname "Bunch" can be traced back to Britain ... it shouldn't normally be considered unusual to find Bunch y-DNA lines that fall into typical British/European haplogroups. Yet, because of the early establishment of the E1b1a (African haplogroup -- see below) Bunches in America, their extensive proliferation and their well traced paper trails, there may be a tendency to interpret other haplogrouped Bunch lines as having derived from the E1b1a's via non-parental events of one sort or another ...

Haplogroup J2
Member B-06
... It's been possible to put together a family tree for him, but since contact with his family hasn't yet been established, the details remain to be confirmed ...

Haplogroup R1b1
Member B-07
... The "solid" paper trail for this participant's patriarchs only extends as far back as a 1900 census entry for Lawrence County, Indiana ...

http://www.worldfamilies.net/surnames/bunch/disc