We are the Kearneys, the mighty mighty Kearneys...

We are the Kearneys, the mighty mighty Kearneys...

 

 

Obama-Mania is everywhere and I want a piece of it...so I use this time to announce that I am possibly/quite likely Barak Obama's cousin. Distant cousin.  On the Irish Kearney side. While we don't have any Falmouth Kearneys in the immediate tree, we have Josephs, Thomases, and Patricks. So we may go back a few generations but I'd bet the genetic DNA would prove a match. Hope so anyway:-) Wouldn't that be cool?

 

Carol Kearney Saba

 

 

Read this.  Or this.  Or this.

Comments

[Rus Bowden]

Hi Carol,

So Barack Obama is becoming the 17th US president with Irish roots today:
http://homepage.eircom.net/%257Eseanjmurphy/dir/pres.htm

Here's the list:

1 Andrew Jackson, 7th President 1829-37
2 James Knox Polk, 11th President 1845-49
3 James Buchanan, 15th President 1857-61
4 Ulysses S Grant, 18th President 1869-77
5 Chester Alan Arthur, 21st President 1881-85
6 Grover Cleveland, 22nd and 24th President 1885-89, 1893-97
7 William McKinley, 25th President 1897-1901
8 Woodrow Wilson, 28th President 1913-21
9 John Fitzgerald Kennedy, 35th President 1961-63
10 Lyndon Baines Johnson, 36th President 1963-69
11 Richard Milhous Nixon, 37th President 1969-74
12 James Earl Carter, 39th President 1977-81
13 Ronald Wilson Reagan, 40th President 1981-89
14 George Herbert Walker Bush, 41st President 1989-93
15 William Jefferson Clinton, 42nd President 1993-2001
16 George W Bush, 43rd President 2001-2009
17. Barack Obama, 44th President 2009-

Yours,
Rus

[Peter Garner]

I knew there was something familiar about that guy.

[Mary Colleen Kearney Flad]

The story says the family were wig-makers. I think that cements the connection. They could have used their own hair!