With its rare books and research, genealogy and cartography, wide-ranging classes and deep outreach, it is no wonder that the Newberry Library would also present the very best of storytelling. Renowned Harvard professor and host of PBS’s Finding Your Roots, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. had guests spellbound when he shared personal stories around libraries and genetic …
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JD Vance’s Irish Ancestry Claim Hits a Genealogical Dead End
JD Vance takes pride in declaring himself to be a “Scots-Irish hillbilly at heart” but a trawl of genealogy records has found no evidence linking the US vice-president to Ireland. In an attempt to link Vance to Ulster, a DUP minister commissioned researchers to dig into the ancestral past of the controversial Republican Party politician. …
JD Vance’s Irish Ancestry Claim Hits a Genealogical Dead End
JD Vance takes pride in declaring himself to be a “Scots-Irish hillbilly at heart” but a trawl of genealogy records has found no evidence linking the US vice-president to Ireland. In an attempt to link Vance to Ulster, a DUP minister commissioned researchers to dig into the ancestral past of the controversial Republican Party politician. …