JD Vance's Irish ancestry claim hits a genealogical dead end DUP-commissioned report fails to find a link [View all]

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JD Vance’s Irish ancestry claim hits a genealogical dead end
DUP-commissioned report fails to find a link between Donald Trump’s vice-president — a self-declared Scots-Irish — and Ireland

https://www.thetimes.com/world/ireland-world/article/jd-vance-scots-irish-family-history-682pjm5j5



JD Vance takes pride in declaring himself to be a “Scots-Irish hillbilly at heart” but a trawl of genealogy records has found no evidence linking the US vice-president to Ireland.

In an attempt to link Vance to Ulster, a DUP minister commissioned researchers to dig into the ancestral past of the controversial Republican Party politician.

A glossy 24-page dossier titled “The Family Footsteps of JD Vance” was produced, but researchers admitted they had “not established a conclusive family link” to Northern Ireland.

Gordon Lyons, the Northern Ireland minister for communities, had been ­hoping to present a copy of the report personally to Vance over the St Patrick’s Day period in Washington DC......................



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