Thu, 03 May, 2007 - 08:42
US presidential hopeful Barack Obama’s ancestry has been traced back to a shoemaker in a small Irish village.
Records unearthed in the home of an elderly parishioner who died recently have shed new light on the prominent Illinois senator’s roots.
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