President Barack Obama's Roots

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Megan Smolenyak for researching his roots

• May 30, 2011 - The Huffington Post - "Irish American Barack Obama Heartily Welcomed Home " by Megan Smolenyak
• May 9, 2011 - The Huffington Post - "Tracing Barack Obama's Roots to Moneygall" by Megan Smolenyak
• April 1, 2011 - Huffington Post - "Moneygall, Ireland Welcomes President Obama Home" by Megan Smolenyak
• March 22, 2011 - Huffington Post - "Sneak Peek: Obama to Visit His Irish Ancestral Hometown of Moneygall" by Megan Smolenyak
• March 1, 2011 - Huffington Post - "There's No One as Irish as Barack Obama 2012" by Megan Smolenyak
• August 25, 2010 - Huffington Post - "Roots Travel in Ireland" by Megan Smolenyak
• August 22, 2010 - Posterous - "Visit to Moneygall, Home of Pres. Obama's Irish Kearney Ancestors (Aug 2010)" by Megan Smolenyak
• August 2010 - "The Obama Trail, Moneygall, County Offaly" With Corey Taratuta of www.IrishFireside.com
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• January 1, 2012 - Chicago Tribune - "We're all (likely) related to stars" by Katherine Skiba
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• June 20, 2011 - Blog Talk Radio - "Obama Genealogies, Megan Smolenyak - Your Ancestors Stories" by Jane E. Wilcox
• June 1, 2011 - Haddonfield Sun - "Digging Up Famous Roots" by Robert Linnehan
• May 23, 2011 - ABC News - "President O'Bama's Irish Eyes -- and Ears? -- Smile in Ancestral Hometown" by Stephanie Smith, Jake Tapper and Sunlen Miller
• May 23, 2011 - The Irish Times - "Locals savour every minute of American dream" by Barry Roche
• May 23, 2011 - Irish Independent - "Villagers prepare welcome fit for a king"
• May 23, 2011 - Le Monde - "A Moneygall, Obama renoue avec ses origines irlandaises" by Corine Lesnes
• May 22, 2011 - USA Today - "Obama's ancestral village rolls out the green carpet" by Richard Wolf
• May 22, 2011 - CNN.com - "Obama's Irish roots" by Shawna Shepherd and Brianna Keilar
• May 9, 2011 - The Midland Record - "Obama, Moneygall & The Golden Tickets"
• May 7, 2011 - Irish Independent - "Yes, we Cannes -- film on president's Irish roots to be shown at festival" - by Ken Sweeney
• April 11, 2011 -   Irish Radio™ Network USA - "Famed US Genealogist Megan Smolenyak" - President Obama is expected to arrive in Ireland on May 23 to visit Moneygall, where his 3rd great-grandfather, Falmouth Kearney, hailed from. His family roots were discovered by Megan who also traced the real Annie Moore! by Adrian Flannelly
• March 24, 2011 - Offaly Libraries - "President Barack Obama: The Moneygall Connection"
• March 17, 2009 - Washington Examiner - "Obama, Biden both feeling their Irish heritage today: Long lost brothers?" by Kiki Ryan and Jeff Dufour
• January 20, 2009 - New York Times - "A Portrait of Change: Nation's Many Faces in Extended First Family" by Jodi Kantor
• December 2008/January 2009 - Irish America - "A New Dawn in American Politics"
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• November/December 2008 - Ancestry Magazine - "The Quest for Obama's Irish Roots"
• October 5, 2008 - Cleveland Plain Dealer - "Presidential candidate Obama has Irish kin in southern Ohio" by Margaret Bernstein (includes PDF download of Obama's Family Tree)
• October 1, 2008 - Newsweek - "O'Bama? Why Irish Eyes are Smiling" by Carl Sullivan
• September 2008 - Irish Times - "Four Green Fields" (about 2008 U.S. elections)
• August 29, 2008 - AFP - Google News - "Obama, Biden descended from Irish cobblers: researcher"
• October 30, 2007 - New York Daily News - "Barack Obama camp elects not to use Brad Pitt"
• 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 13, 2007 - New York Daily News - "Even a wee bit o' Irish in Barack" by Helen Kennedy