Where's Merrill? a Genealogical Thriller by Gearoid O'Neary

Author:Gearoid O'Neary
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: ireland, true story, mobsters, family history research, midwest mystery, irish ancestry, minnesota mystery, ancestry search, genealogy book
Publisher: Gearoid O'Neary

1940, Washington DC

Sabrina, on the phone, discreetly speaking to a registrar’s clerk in Minnesota: “Yes, that’s right. I just dug out my son Paul’s birth certificate, and someone has written my name as ‘Rourke.’ It was probably my husband James’ fault, what with all the excitement back then. That’s my mother’s maiden name. We’re both called O'Hara, distant cousins, although no-one in the family knew quite how. We must all be descended from the same Irish chieftain or something, I guess.”

Sabrina desperately wants to ensure that U.S. government officials don’t start checking her background further, with the possibility of the War Department job in her lap. She is in a private office, with the door closed. The call-taker says that she will require full ID for the amendment application process.

“Well, my date of birth is February 12, 1914, Fredericksburg, Iowa. You can verify that with your colleagues. I also work for the government, like you. I’m in Washington, right across the way from the White House. I just need Paul’s birth certificate corrected. It’s embarrassing for my husband James; he works in the Senate.”

The Minnesota registrar’s clerk is impressed by Sabrina‘s convincingly delivered but false last statement, “Really? How wonderful.”

“Yeah, I started out like you; working at City Hall. There’s great admin opportunities over here. You should come down and take a look around some time. It’s a beautiful city. I‘m sure you could get on just fine.”

The starry-eyed clerk agrees that the amendment can be made, so long as her Iowa counterparts confirm Sabrina’s birth ID. Sabrina assures her that that will just be a formality. Sabrina asks for the revised document to be sent to her grand-sounding D.C. work address, “…and you will mark it ‘private and confidential,’ won‘t you? Okay, thanks so much. You‘re a sweetie.”

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