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  • October 15, 2008 - The Irish Echo article - "Annie's Place" by Ray O'Hanlon
  • October 13, 2008 - Irish Times article - "Ellis Island's first immigrant honoured" by Lucy Kennedy
  • October 8, 2008 - The Irish Echo article - "Annie's Day" by Ray O'Hanlon
  • October 8, 2008 - CNN.com article - "Washington family descendant could've been king"
  • October 8, 2008 - Newsweek article - "The Man Who Would Be King" by Kurt Soller
  • October 8, 2008 - Reuters UK article - "Palin may be related to Princess Diana and Roosevelt" by Ellen Wulfhorst
  • October 7, 2008 - The Associated Press article - "Texan is Washington's kin, and could've been king" by Michelle Roberts
  • October 5, 2008 - Cleveland Plain Dealer article - "Presidential candidate Obama has Irish kin in southern Ohio" by Margaret Bernstein. Includes PDF download of Obama's Family Tree.
  • October 1, 2008 - Newsweek article - "O'Bama? Why Irish Eyes are Smiling" by Carl Sullivan
  • September, 2008 - Irish Times article - "Four Green Fields"
  • September, 2008 - Ancestry Magazine article - "The Man (or Woman) Who Would Be King"
  • August 29, 2008 - AFP - Google News - Obama, Biden descended from Irish cobblers: researcher
  • August 13, 2008 - Irish Echo Online - "Annie will finally get her marker"
  • July 2, 2008 - The Times-Picayune - "Expert has riveting take on genealogy"
  • March 14, 2008 - US Weekly article - "It's All Relative - Famous Family Trees"
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  • February 27, 2008 - ABC News article - "Genealogy: Digging Into Your Roots" by Eleanor Hong
  • February 4, 2008 - The Press-Enterprise - "Genealogist to speak in Hemet" by Erica Shen
  • October 28, 2007 - New York Post - "Cousins by Dozens"
  • September 29, 2007 - Des Moines Register - "Event brings hunter of family history"
  • May 13, 2007 - The Washington Post - "Tiny Irish Village Is Latest Place to Claim Obama as Its Own" by Mary Jordan
  • May 3, 2007 - Irish Times - "Moneygall is Offaly pleased with Obama connection" by Mark Rodden
  • March 21, 2007 - BBC News - "Black roots seekers face hurdles" by Richard Allen Greene
  • March 13, 2007 - New York Daily News - "Even a wee bit o' Irish in Barack" by Helen Kennedy
  • March 13, 2007 - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - "Sharpton case drives more to find roots on Web site" by Monica Haynes
  • February 2007 - Assorted articles regarding Sharpton-Thurmond
  • February 26, 2007 - BBC News - "Sharpton slave link to US senator"
  • February 26, 2007 - New York Times - "Sharpton Learns His Forebears Were Thurmonds' Slaves" by Fernanda Santos. Purchase of article required.
  • February 26, 2007 - New York Daily News - "Slavery links Al Sharpton, Strom Thurmond" by Austin Fenner
  • February 25, 2007 - Washington Post - "Sharpton's Ancestor Was Owned by Thurmond's" by Robin Shulman
  • December 6, 2007 - Tuoi Tre Online - "Viet lich su nuoc My qua ADN" by THÛY TÛNG - translation and remarks
  • October 10, 2006 - The Wall Street Journal - "Searching for Life's Connection With the Past" by Riva Richmond. Purchase of article required.
  • October 6, 2006 - Time for Kids - "Rewriting History: A case of mistaken identity is solved" by Andrea Delbanco
  • September 20, 2006 - The Irish Echo - "Putting things right: Annie Moore lived, and died, in New York's hardscrabble streets" by Ray O'Hanlon
  • September 14, 2006 - The New York Times - "Story of the First Through Ellis Island Is Rewritten" by Sam Roberts
  • Feb. 6, 2006 - Newsweek - "DNA Testing: In Our Blood" by Claudia Kalb
  • October 22, 2005 - The Genealogue - "The Mother of Genetealogy" by Christopher Dunham
  • August 22, 2005 - Cool Tools - "Trace Your Roots with DNA + The Genographic Project: Practical genetic literacy" by Kevin Kelly, co-founder of Wired
  • July 25, 2005 - The New York Times - "Blacks Pin Hope on DNA to Fill Slavery's Gaps in Family Trees" by Amy Harmon. Registration is needed to read the article.
  • March - April 2005 - AARP The Magazine - "The DNA Connection" by Nanette Varian
  • February 08, 2005 - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - "DNA helping to untangle roots of family trees" by Bob Batz Jr.
  • January 10, 2005 - Newsweek - "Tipsheet/Lifestyle: Books" by Lisa Helem
  • Autumn 2004 - Colonial Williamsburg Journal article - "Of Surnames, Escutcheons and DNA"
    Read this article in PDF format. Published by and provided here with the kind permission of Colonial Williamsburg Journal.
  • May - June, 2004 - American Spirit article - "The Quest for Closure"
    Read this article in PDF format. Published by and provided here with the kind permission of American Spirit magazine.
  • April 24, 2003 - Richmond Times-Dispatch article - "Who's your daddy? Genealogists look inside their cells for clues to their ancestors" Richmond Times-Dispatch, used with permission.

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