Fellow Researchers, I had a news essay about Sarah Palin’s roots in Ireland published in this week’s edition of The Irish Echo, posted at www.irishecho.com (page 8). Working with her on-line lineage posted and updated at http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~battle/palin.htm, help from Rutland researchers, and the databases I developed in researching Ballykilcline Rising, I learned that her immigrant Irish ancestor came out of the same conflicted terrain described in my book -- from the townland across a narrow country road from Ballykilcline -- and went to Rutland, Vermont, before going west. Mary Lee Dunn PS Thanks to Peter Patten, Barbara Grenier, and Rosemary Vandenburg for help with this research and the genealogists -- Robert Battle, Tom Brown, William Reitwiesner, Gary Boyd Roberts, and Michael Hurdle -- who contributed to the posted on-line lineage.

Dear Mary Lee, thanks for this information. I've been having all sort of fun with my husband's family - they are related to Sarah about six times over. They are not happy campers! Marianne Arnold. On Oct 2, 2008, at 5:32 PM, maryldunn@aol.com wrote: > Fellow Researchers, > > I had a news essay about Sarah Palin’s roots in Ireland published in > this week’s edition of The Irish Echo, posted at www.irishecho.com > (page 8). Working with her on-line lineage posted and updated at > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~battle/palin.htm, > help from Rutland researchers, and the databases I developed in > researching Ballykilcline Rising, I learned that her immigrant Irish > ancestor came out of the same conflicted terrain described in my book > -- from the townland across a narrow country road from > Ballykilcline -- > and went to Rutland, Vermont, before going west. > > Mary Lee Dunn > > PS Thanks to Peter Patten, Barbara Grenier, and Rosemary Vandenburg > for > help with this research and the genealogists -- Robert Battle, Tom > Brown, William Reitwiesner, Gary Boyd Roberts, and Michael Hurdle -- > who contributed to the posted on-line lineage. > > > > > ===NY-IRISH-GENSOC Mailing List=== > Did you pay your 2008 Dues? > Troy Irish Genealogy Society > http://www.rootsweb.com/~nytigs/ > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NY-TROY-IRISH- > GENSOC-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message