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Madam, - The report "US president may have family tie to Strongbow" is somewhat misleading (The Irish Times, January 26th). At my DCU website, "Royal Descents of famous people", I have been collecting this type of genealogy for years, and there are a few salient points:

1. The descent of Bush from Strongbow may be news to the artists working on the Ros Tapestry, but it has been well known among genealogists for years, certainly since the work of Otto-Georg Richter in 1994. A sketch by me of this descent has been online since around 1996.