MONEYGALL, Ireland — Here they call him O’Bama.
[if it stops early, just click go arrow again]http://www.barack-obama-now.com/blog/?p=85Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois, Democratic candidate for president, is the talk of this village because recently unearthed records indicate that he is a son of Moneygall.
Stephen Neill, a local Anglican rector, said church documents he has found, along with census, immigration and other records tracked down by U.S. genealogists, appear to show that Obama’s great-great-great-grandfather, Fulmuth Kearney, was reared in Moneygall, then left for America in 1850, when he was 19.
Megan Smolenyak, chief family historian for Ancestry.com, an online repository of family history records, said that although no single “smoking gun” document was found, there are about 20 different records that when pieced together make her “absolutely certain” of Obama’s Moneygall roots.
Ireland prepares for Barack Obama arrival.22 May 2011 Last updated at 12:24
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-13490437'Final preparations are being put in place in Dublin ahead of the visit of US President Barack Obama on Monday.'"Where are we from today ... ,
— Mr President, Sir?"
