Posted on 08/12/2024 9:35:45 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
A 61-year-old professor born in Phoenix, Arizona, believes he is the first person to gain Irish citizenship solely based on the results of a DNA test, the Irish Times reported.
John Portmann, an author and professor of religious studies at the University of Virginia, took an Ancestry.com test in 2019 at the behest of his adopted sister. Portmann was cared for by nuns in Phoenix before being adopted and grew up not knowing anything about his background.
When he received his DNA results, he was shocked to find out he was full-blooded Irish...
he couldn't stop thinking about Ireland and about his biological mother and father so he hired a DNA detective to research his past...
He eventually learned that his biological father was from Dublin and his biological mother's family was from County Kilkenny in southeastern Ireland.
Portmann presented the evidence to authorities in Dublin who confirmed his father's identity and issued him an Irish passport...
He visited Ireland for the first time in October, met long-lost relatives and visited Belvedere College, where his paternal grandfather once taught...
According to Irish citizenship law, those born outside the country are automatically a citizen by birth if either one of the parents were born in Ireland and was a citizen.US-born professor who was adopted gains Irish citizenship through shocking DNA test | Deirdre Bardolf | New York Post | July 27, 2024
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*grandfather
Most if not all of the Oops* here on the west coast, that we know about, have been from Mom’s having secret affairs or flings. Then, Oops, along came Ancestor.com..
*That we know of.
You got that right! My brother was contacted by someone claiming he was a 1st cousin. No one in my family ever heard of additional cousins. Came to find out an Uncle had affairs and we have at least 3 additional cousins. OOPS
I remember a song from several decades ago, set in a Caribbean island. A young man falls in love with one young woman after another, only to have his father tell him that she’s is sister “but your mama don’t know.” Finally he goes to his mother in desperation about his predicament and she tells him it’s OK because his daddy isn’t really his daddy “but your daddy don’t know.”
I know from what geneological research we have already done in our family that such a feat would not work in my case; too much a variety of ancestors from different countries.
Like my dad always answered (because he did not know) when we’d ask “Where are we from”, he’d say “you’re a mutt”, your an American. He was in the military and the WWII U.S. military was a real “melting pot” and I think my dad’s attitude reflected that.
Good for him. My family fled Ireland almost a thousand years ago and we changed our name from Stuart to Paterson and settled in the Scottish lowlands.
Yup, and I'm sure that the Belvedere professor had a fling and the mom didn't know who he was.
Women almost always know who the father is, unless she is sleeping with several men weekly.
Thats the thing with those too. It only takes each generations dullest member to take one and the governments of the world know far too much about you and your entire extended family.
Exactly. *HUGS* :)
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