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White House Meets Privately with Press to Discuss Benghazi--before the regular press meeting....
Breitbart ^ | 10 May 2013 | Ben Shapiro

Posted on 05/11/2013 9:53:45 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach

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To: Fitzy_888
I had a great-great-grandmother who was born in Ireland and was a young child when the famine began. I'm not sure when they came to the US. Supposedly she was born in Dublin but I'm not sure if that is trustworthy--if they came from a village or small town near Dublin that might have been remembered as "Dublin." The surname was O'Brien so there are lots of other families with the same name coming about the same time.

I was in Dublin once and was told you had to go to each parish to ask to look at the registers--and Dublin had over 300,000 people at the time of the famine. I figured it would take too much time--and maybe she wasn't actually born in Dublin. My grandmother, her granddaughter, was alive at the time and would have been delighted if I could have found something.

61 posted on 05/11/2013 5:06:34 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: Verginius Rufus

I was in Dublin once for my birthday, more or less passed out in a Queen Ann chair in the lobby of the hotel. I had a lot more fun in villages and towns (particularly Clonmel).

Given your ancestors comes from Dublin, you may be able to track down readily easily.

While I’m reluctant to state it here, but my surname is ‘Fitzpatrick’. One of only two ‘Fitz’ prefix surname to predate the Norman invasion. My ancestors come from near Cavan Town. There is some controversy about this, but in the original Gaelic, Mac Giolla Phádraig (anglicized ‘Fitzpatrick’), means sons of the servants of Saint Patrick.


62 posted on 05/11/2013 7:04:36 PM PDT by Fitzy_888 ("ownership society")
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My grandmother was about 27 when her immigrant grandmother died but apparently she never questioned her about her early life or her family. Later that was the part of her ancestry she was most interested in (she was only one-quarter Irish). At least I have the exact date of birth of my great-great-grandmother--to distinguish her from all the other Mary O'Briens of the time.

When I visited Ireland it was before online sources--perhaps some records can be searched more quickly now. Of course a lot were destroyed by the IRA in 1922.

63 posted on 05/11/2013 7:49:48 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: politicianslie

Completely agree. Kennedy was killed as the result of a conspiracy. He was set up by Johnson...there is no doubt any longer. As the years go by and we learn more, we know that LBJ was headed to prison as a result of the Bobby Baker investigation...Johnson was also off the ticket in ‘64. He had to have Kennedy murdered to save himself...and he did.

The proof is in the media’s total unconcern for the truth. They have covered and lied for fifty years. Don’t expect it to change. Thank goodness for the internet...we don’t have to take the MSM’s big lies anymore.


64 posted on 05/12/2013 7:18:23 AM PDT by kjo (+)
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