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Egad! A waking nightmare. My maternal great grandmother was a Dowd from New York. I don’t want to investigate that branch of my family tree for fear Maureen is a cousin. It’s bad enough that my paternal grandmother’s parents came from the same small town in Ireland that Paul Ryan’s did. With my luck I will find out I’m related to both of them.
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Egad! A waking nightmare.
My maternal great grandmother was a Dowd from New York. I don’t want to investigate that branch of my family tree for fear Maureen is a cousin. It’s bad enough that my paternal grandmother’s parents came from the same small town in Ireland that Paul Ryan’s did. With my luck I will find out I’m related to both of them.