Claire Cronin was born to the son of an Irish immigrant from the Inishowen Peninsula in Northern County Donegal and all four of her mother’s grandparents were Irish. Claire Cronin was born Clare McLaughlin in Brockton, Massachusetts to parents, James Daniel McLaughlin and Phyllis Virginia Lucey who married in the early 1950s. James Daniel McLaughlin …
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The Irish Ancestry of Claire Cronin, the New US Ambassador to Ireland
Claire Cronin was born to the son of an Irish immigrant from the Inishowen Peninsula in Northern County Donegal and all four of her mother’s grandparents were Irish. Claire Cronin was born Clare McLaughlin in Brockton, Massachusetts to parents, James Daniel McLaughlin and Phyllis Virginia Lucey who married in the early 1950s. James Daniel McLaughlin …
Ellis Island: How to Research Ancestors Who Passed Through the Gateway to Freedom
The MyHeritage Blog has an article that will be of interest to many U.S. genealogists: If your ancestors traveled to New York from outside the United States during the years 1892–1954, there’s a good chance they passed through Ellis Island. On January 1, we’ll be celebrating the 130th anniversary of the day Ellis Island opened …