Birth Name: Jill Tracy Jacobs
Place of Birth: Hammonton, New Jersey, U.S.
Date of Birth: June 3, 1951
Ethnicity:
*Italian, possibly other (father)
*English, with distant Dutch and French Huguenot (mother)
Family Background: Jill Biden is an American educator and is married to politician, Joe Biden.
Jill was born to Donald C. Jacobs and Bonny Jean (Godfrey).
Jill’s paternal grandparents were Dominic Giacoppa and Mable. Dominic was of Italian descent. Jill stated:
“My grandpop was Dominic Giacoppa, but they changed it to Jacobs. So I grew up eating one Italian meal on Sunday, with the wedding soup and the braciole and homemade pasta”
Jill’s maternal grandparents were Harold Godfrey Jr (the son of Harold Godfrey and Elizabeth Layton) and Mabel Frances Boardman (the daughter of Archibald Boardman and Josephine). Harold Godfrey’s mother, Emily Cameron Van Gilder, had distant Dutch and French Huguenot ancestry from the 1600s. She descended from Daniel Perrin, a Frenchman from Normandy, who was one of the first permanent European inhabitants of Staten Island, New York,
Source: http://worldconnect.rootsweb.ancestry.com/
http://gw.geneanet.org/tdowling?lang=en&i=307370
more distant ancestors: http://www.wikitree.com/genealogy/Corson-Family-Tree-287
http://www.wikitree.com/genealogy/Van%20Gelder-Family-Tree-42
Daniel Perrin: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Perrin
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