Searching for My American cousins with Martine Brennan

Searching for my American cousins with Martine Brennan

Over a decade ago, Irish woman Martine Brennan took a DNA test which surprisingly revealed that she had unknown African American cousins. With no family oral history to guide her she began the search to find her connection to her cousins.

Martine Brennan is an  London-born Irish woman, public historian & genealogist. Creator of the database of Irish slaveholders in South Carolina (research ongoing) which is available free of charge on Google maps and at the digital archive of the International African American Museum Charleston. Contributor of 'DNA doesn't lie' to The stained and bloodied cloths of Ireland edit. Catherine Harper (Bloomsbury, 2025)

https://irishhistorians.ie/members/martine-brennan/
Irish slaveholders in South Carolina
https://irishdiasporahistory.wordpress.com/2021/06/06/cousins-african-american-irish-and-dna-insights/

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