through his maternal grandmother, Nina Pratt. Nina's family tree includes Irish ancestors on different lines, tracing back to Isaac Cowan, born in South Carolina around 1764, whose father ...

(JTA) — The maternal ancestry of Ashkenazi Jews comes mainly from Europe, a new study shows. The findings, published this week in the journal Nature Communications, fly in the face of the ...

One of Jennifer’s maternal great-grandfathers was an Italian immigrant, and her mother's other ancestry is Irish, and Scottish. Her maternal grandparents grew up in Maine, and were descendants ...

Kelly's maternal grandfather was an immigrant from Derry. It wasn’t until much later in life that he was issued an Irish passport, which made him extremely proud, according to his wife.

and that there was some Irish blood in his veins. This information came from his maternal grandmother, Nellie Blair, who had been born in Londonderry. Nellie had met her husband, Archie McLeod ...

We reconstructed a family tree with many different branches and found most members traced their maternal lineage back ... from a small set of female ancestors. In Yorkshire, for example, one ...