Posted on 03/17/2011 7:01:30 AM PDT by maggief
A new study claims that President Obama has 28 living relatives who share his Irish ancestry, but some of the newly discovered kin aren't eager to share a pint with him.
In the study, released to The Associated Press by family history website Ancestry.com, genealogists traced the descendants of about two dozen passengers who came to America from Ireland on the ship Marmion in March 1850.
(Excerpt) Read more at nydailynews.com ...
LOL
You can go to any bookstore and buy “You Might Be A Redneck...” book or DVD.
[Irish/hillbilly origins]
Now try that with any other ethnicity.
I’ll be here waiting until you complete your quest...:)
At the same time that hair you dismiss as BROWN is most likely a consequence of its exhibitor leading a mostly indoor life AND still having the red/yellow, or red/brown pigment gene!
Humanity has TWO COLORS ~ one is red/brown (pop. 200,000,000) and the other black/brown (pop. 6,800,000,000).
You can't miss 'em.
Everything else is handled by the contrast control or raster rate!
LOL - my mom said that her dad made her wear orange on St. Pat’s day. His family was from Scotland. She said she used to come home from school bruised.
The Scanderhoovians STOLE red haired people from Ireland and elsewhere in the British Isles and turned them into slaves.
The first known European chil' born in America was Snori. His father was a blond Viking. His mother was an Irish slave whose father was the High King of Ireland, Carhal himself!
I'd suspect Eric the Red's own mother was also an Irish sex slave.
There is an older strain among the Celtic tribes that has the black/brown pigment, but that dates back to an exceedingly early Ice Age period where you found all the Western European tribes safe and snug, and near starvation, in the Western European refugia South of the Pyranees.
The only really big news in coloration over the last 1000 years is that the Sa'ami made permanent contact with their Souvrn' kinfolk ~
Why is his pot-o-gold empty?
:)
Slainte,
CC
ugh, I threw up a little bit from that video
He is Irish on his mother’s side. Dunham is an Irish name.
Leprechaun in the woodpile?
“and have much more than their fair share of Norman and Saxon blood”
Wrong again.
That only applies to county Ulster and the “Norman/Saxon” you mention were the “Planters” sent by the Anglos.
Norman William the Conqueror is probably who you’re thinking of, in 1066. [he, of Viking/Celtic ancestry born of Norse people who wound up in formerly Celtic Normandy, France having once been *Gaul*]
The Planters were sent there by the English overlords who shoved my ancestors on the “Cromwell Cruise Lines”.
The north of Ireland and the coastlines were heavily settled by Norse/Danish Vikings [Danish, primarily] while Scotland was invaded mostly by the Norseman.
The Welsh, themselves, are a unique people:
“In two recently published books, Blood of the Isles, by Brian Sykes and The Origins of the British, by Stephen Oppenheimer, both authors state that according to genetic evidence, most Welsh people, like most Britons, descend from the Iberian Peninsula, as a result of different migrations that took place during the Mesolithic and the Neolithic eras, and which laid the foundations for the present-day populations in the British Isles, indicating an ancient relationship among the populations of Atlantic Europe.According to Stephen Oppenheimer 96% of lineages in Llangefni in north Wales derive from Iberia. Genetic research on the Y-chromosome has shown that the Welsh, like the Irish, share a large proportion of their ancestry with the Basques of Northern Spain and South Western France, although the Welsh have a greater presumed Neolithic input than both the Irish and the Basques. Genetic marker R1b averages from 83-89% amongst the Welsh.”
“Iberia”, in case you’re not aware, is now called “Spain”.
You might also want to research “P-Celtic vs. Q-Celtic” and *why* each group speaks one...or the other.
[clue: genetic physiologic predisposition caused the “split”]
“At the same time that hair you dismiss as BROWN is most likely a consequence of its exhibitor leading a mostly indoor life AND still having the red/yellow, or red/brown pigment gene!”
This is just too silly to even seriously address.
Suffice to say that if your “theory” were true, the outdoor-living nomadic Watusi would all be platinum blonds *and* somehow magically pass on their sun-bleached hair via genetics to their offspring.
yeah, i said it...
here til tuesday, try the veal...ba-da-dink...
it’s very religious in Ireland for many over there, I was surprised when I lived there to see that.
If only the poor loon left wing fools understood they’re now celebrating a religious holiday LOL.
What bothers me along with amateur drinkers tonight and idiots who dress up in green thinking it makes them Irish is how teachers push this holiday onto kids who are not irish and have no desire to pretend they are.
Yet Christmas is a big no no.
Course elected officials will become plastic paddies too in the hopes of getting a few more votes.
Maybe we’ll see MO and her husband take a break form partying and come out dressed as a Leprechaun EEK
Finding out Obama is in your family tree?....Yikes!
When you made your statement I laughed because Kramer’s attourney Jackie came to mind. He tried to shyster everyone and everything.
Though he’s more commonly associated with his African roots
He inaccurately filled out his census form checking Black as his race instead of the accurate Mixed.
A few years ago I met Rory Guinness (yes, THAT Guinness) in a pub here in Houston.
He stated that he was the luckiest man alive, and that every pub he goes into the word over he discovers new cousins he never knew he had.
Can’t say I doubt him, I’m one of his long long long lost cousins, don’t you know?
Here is a wonderful historical irony: The English tried to starve the Irish out (or at least they didn’t care that they starved) but in driving them out of their country they magnified the the number of Irish descendants 1000 fold beyond what they’d have been if the Irish diaspora hadn’t happened.
LOL, Are you an investor in his drink too?
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