{"id":34778,"date":"2015-04-12T17:22:00","date_gmt":"2015-04-13T00:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/?p=34778"},"modified":"2015-04-12T17:22:00","modified_gmt":"2015-04-13T00:22:00","slug":"megan-smolenyak-uproots-14-of-hillary-rodham-clintons-online-family-tree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/?p=34778","title":{"rendered":"Megan Smolenyak Uproots 1\/4 of Hillary Rodham Clinton&#8217;s Online Family Tree"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/megan-smolenyak-smolenyak\/hillary-clinton-family-tr_b_7009986.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Hillarys-family-tree-200pw.jpg\" alt=\"Hillary&#039;s-family-tree-200pw\" width=\"200\" height=\"234\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-34782\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The following teaser is from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/megan-smolenyak-smolenyak\/hillary-clinton-family-tr_b_7009986.html\">an article posted by my friend, Megan Smolenyak, at the Huffington Post website<\/a>. With a little digging, she proved that 1\/4 of Hillary Clinton&#8217;s posted online family trees are wrong&#8230; Again, showing that just because it&#8217;s on the Internet does not make it true. Very good, Megan!<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When <a href=\"http:\/\/irishamerica.com\/\">Irish America<\/a> requested that I research and write <a href=\"http:\/\/issuu.com\/irishamerica\/docs\/ia.april_may_2015\">a piece on Hillary Rodham Clinton&#8217;s heritage (pages 50-52)<\/a>, I was concerned. Why? Because delving into the ancestral past of celebrities has become something of a sub-hobby in the world of genealogy, so I knew that countless others would have climbed the branches of her family tree. What would I possibly be able to add that wasn&#8217;t already known?<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately for me, but regrettably for genealogy in general, there was plenty of fresh terrain because I soon realized that everyone had a quarter of her family tree wrong. And when I say &#8220;everyone,&#8221; I mean dozens of people on at least eight family history websites.<\/p>\n<p>One of Rodham Clinton&#8217;s grandmothers was a woman named Hannah Jones who was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania around 1882&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/megan-smolenyak-smolenyak\/hillary-clinton-family-tr_b_7009986.html\">Read the full article.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following teaser is from an article posted by my friend, Megan Smolenyak, at the Huffington Post website. With a little digging, she proved that 1\/4 of Hillary Clinton&#8217;s posted online family trees are wrong&#8230; Again, showing that just because <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/?p=34778\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Megan Smolenyak Uproots 1\/4 of Hillary Rodham Clinton&#8217;s Online Family Tree<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,77],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebrity-genealogy","category-political-family-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34778"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34784,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34778\/revisions\/34784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}