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Mr. Obama, whose great-great-great-grandfather on his mother's side is Irish, is on a four-nation European tour.

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In 1850, Mr. Obama's great-great-great-grandfather set out for America from the town of Moneygall, which today is home to fewer than 300 people.

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Many people, however, have commented on the resemblance between me and my great-great-great-grandfather, James Chalfant.

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Mr. Obama's great-great-great-grandfather, a shoemaker named Falmouth Kearney, is said to have left Moneygall for America in 1850, during the worst of Ireland's potato famine.

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Then I thought I would try some ancient history, and brought her a little further east (and back into Flanders) to the Tumulus of Pepin the Elder, a Frankish magnate of the early 7th century who was, if I calculate correctly, Charlemagne's great-great-great-grandfather (and therefore probably your ancestor too).

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In Domaine de la Roman é e-Conti's case, the crus the family has acquired through a process that started with Mr. de Villaine's great-great-great-grandfather, Jacques-Marie Duvault-Blochet, are some of the most sought after in the whole of Burgundy.

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Kenneth Morris says he realized his great-great-great-grandfather would not be the last abolitionist in the family when he discovered that slavery hadn't ended with the Civil War.

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Pratt's brother, Parley, a contemporary of Joseph Smith's and one of the church's earliest missionaries, was the great-great-great-grandfather of Huntsman, and the great-great-grandfather of Mitt Romney.

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Her great-great-great-grandfather bought a lot in Timbuctoo in 1829 for $38.

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Story says that his truck has long been decorated with the Confederate battle flag and that he does have "CV" Sons of Confederate Veterans plates, which he obtained after discovering that his great-great-great-grandfather was a second lieutenant with the Alabama Partisan Rangers during the Civil War.

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