then one of our committee members had a Republican friend in Chicago," she said. "We got the genealogy chart from there
This is only slightly more reliable than getting your genealogy charts faxed from Kinkos. I mean now we are being asked to believe in the mythical Chicago republican.
Considering that the person quoted is living in Ireland and that "republican" is spelled with a small "r," I would assume the reference is to the Irish Republican movement rather than to our Republican party.
How dare you??? ;-)