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Subject: [NY-TROY-IRISH-GENSOC] A Research Surprise: Seeing Ireland fromAlaska
Date: Thu, 02 Oct 2008 17:32:09 -0400


Fellow Researchers,

I had a news essay about Sarah Palin’s roots in Ireland published in
this week’s edition of The Irish Echo, posted at www.irishecho.com
(page 8). Working with her on-line lineage posted and updated at
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~battle/palin.htm,
help from Rutland researchers, and the databases I developed in
researching Ballykilcline Rising, I learned that her immigrant Irish
ancestor came out of the same conflicted terrain described in my book
-- from the townland across a narrow country road from Ballykilcline --
and went to Rutland, Vermont, before going west.

Mary Lee Dunn

PS Thanks to Peter Patten, Barbara Grenier, and Rosemary Vandenburg for
help with this research and the genealogists -- Robert Battle, Tom
Brown, William Reitwiesner, Gary Boyd Roberts, and Michael Hurdle --
who contributed to the posted on-line lineage.




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