How I Traced Obama’s Irish Roots

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Genealogist, Megan Smolenyak.

The woman who discovered Obama’s third great-great-grandfather was Irish tells all.

“With his unusual name, it wasn’t difficult to locate his arrival record in the U.S. Experimenting with various versions of Fulmoth and Kearney, I found him as Falmouth Carney. He had arrived on the Marmion in New York on March 20, 1850.”

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