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Subject: Re: [NY-TROY-IRISH-GENSOC] A Research Surprise: Seeing Ireland fromAlaska
Date: Sat, 04 Oct 2008 17:31:51 +0000


Hi,

Does anyone know about McCain's roots? It would be interesting to know.

If you ever do research your Burke line let me know.
v

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From: Marianne Arnold <>

> Hi Mary Lee,
> Actually my husband isn't Irish. I have his family way back - some to
> the 1400s - and unless you count Ulster Scots, I haven't turned up a
> single Irishman or woman. I, on the other hand, am about 3/4 Irish,
> of the starving famine kind.
>
> He is descended from some of the same early New England puritans and
> quakers that Sarah Palin is. Parkhurst, Leete, Rice and Frost, and
> probably one of those Carters.
>
> I do have a Burke line, so that's a possibility for me. Given my
> druthers though, I'd just as soon pass! My daughter says, "If anyone
> asks, I'm adopted"! Marianne
>
>
> On Oct 3, 2008, at 3:18 PM, wrote:
>
> >
> > Hi, Marianne,
> >
> > Which lines are they related through? Are they Roscommon lines?
> > Interesting.
> >
> > FYI, later yesterday I was interviewed by the Irish Times and they
> > had a story in today's paper, which is on-line at http://
> > www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/frontpage/
> > 2008/1003/1222959305923.html. Just google the paper's name. And
> > then that led to an interview on RTE's radio program Morning
> > Ireland last evening and that too is on-line at their website: rte.ie.
> >
> > I didn't post about them since nobody had posted to my earlier note
> > so I thought there was little or no interest, which seemed strange
> > with John McEneny addressing Ballykilcline, in part, at this
> > month's meeting. Or that the debate itself was too distracting. I
> > was going to try to attend TIGS' October meeting but a family
> > member will be visiting, so I won't be there. Maybe sometime down
> > the road.
> >
> > Indeed it was hectic yesterday!
> >
> > Mary Lee
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Marianne Arnold
> > To:
> > Sent: Fri, 3 Oct 2008 2:37 pm
> > Subject: Re: [NY-TROY-IRISH-GENSOC] A Research Surprise: Seeing
> > Ireland from Alaska
> >
> >
> >
> > Dear Mary Lee, thanks for this information. I've been having all sort
> > f fun with my husband's family - they are related to Sarah about six
> > imes over. They are not happy campers! Marianne Arnold.
> > n Oct 2, 2008, at 5:32 PM, wrote:
> >> Fellow Researchers,
> >
> > I had a news essay about Sarah Palins roots in Ireland published in
> > this weeks edition of The Irish Echo, poste
> > d 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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