German & Irish Roots

Certificate of Live Birth attests to delivery by Alice M. Bustin at 2:37 a.m.

Baptismal sponsors were John Lloyd Corcoran and Patricia Cullen (m. Wilson); Fr. A.E. Culliton officiated. Confirmed on 18 November 1958 at Immaculate Conception Church (Columbus Ohio 43214).

Attended Immaculate Conception School in Columbus for all eight elementary grades, graduating in June 1963. Attended Bishop Watterson High School for all four grades, graduating on 4 June 1967. Earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Humanities from The Ohio State University, majoring in History; attended from June 1967 through March 1972 (with a hiatus at Franklin University in Columbus for the school year 1969-70) and the Winter Quarter 1983, graduating in March 1983. Attended the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern Unversity in Chicago/Evanston Illinois 1984-87, graduating and earning a Master of Management degree in March 1987.

Lived at:

1949-51: 1011 King Avenue, Columbus Ohio 43212

1951-70: 499 Arden Road, Columbus Ohio 43214

1970-72: Columbus Ohio 43201

1972-74: San Francisco Bay Area, California (Oakland/Berkeley, Sonoma County, SF North Beach, East Oakland)

1974-75: Luxembourg, France, Andorra, Spain, Morocco, England, Scotland, Ireland, Switzerland

1975-78: 1307 Forsythe Ave, Columbus Ohio 43201

1978-80: Monday Creek Twp. Rd. 430, Logan Ohio 43138

1980-82: Oak Park, Michigan 48237

1983-84: Kildare Str., Matteson Illinois 60443

1985-86: 56th Floor Marina City, Chicago Illinois 60606

1986-87: 742 W. Buena Ave., Chicago Illinois 60613

1988-89: 1517 Via Del Rey, So. Pasadena California 91030

1989-90: 910 Summit Dr., So. Pasadena California 91030

1991-95: 26722 Indian Peak Rd., Rancho Palos Verdes California 90275

1996: 108 No. Emerson Str., Mt. Prospect Illinois 60056

1997-2000: 84 Mill Str., Westwood Massachusetts 02090

2000-13 : 11621 Symmes Creek Dr., Loveland Ohio 45140

2013- : 8509 SE Retreat Dr. Hobe Sound Florida 33455

[Eric's genetic] paternal line (haplogroup R-CTS1843) stems from a branch of R-M343 called R-M269, one of the most prolific paternal lineages across western Eurasia. R-M269 arose roughly 10,000 years ago, as the people of the Fertile Crescent domesticated plants and animals for the first time. [There is an] overwhelming dominance of the R-M269 lineage in Europe. Over 80[Quote] of men in Ireland and Wales carry the haplogroup, as do over 60[Quote] of men along the Atlantic Coast from Spain to France. The frequency of R-M269 gradually decreases to the east, falling to about 30[Quote] in Germany, 20[Quote] in Poland, and 10-15[Quote] in Greece and Turkey. The haplogroup connects all these men to still others in the Iranian Plateau and Central Asia, where between 5 and 10[Quote] of men also bear the lineage. [Regarding] the spread of haplogroup R-M269 in northern Ireland and Scotland, genetic evidence suggests that the Uí Néill dynasty, whose name means "descendants of Niall," did in fact trace back to just one man who bore a branch of haplogroup R-M269. [R]esearchers have estimated that between 2 and 3 million men with roots in north-west Ireland are paternal-line descendants of Niall.

[Eric's genetic] maternal line stems from a branch of H called H1. The common ancestor of haplogroup H1 likely lived between 9,000 and 15,000 years ago, not long after the end of the Ice Age. Her maternal-line ancestors had been among the former inhabitants of continental Europe, people who were pushed out of the north by glacial ice sheets during the last great peak of the cold at the end of the Ice Age. They sheltered for thousands of years in warmer refuges along the Mediterranean, including in the Iberian peninsula. H1's common ancestor likely lived within that Iberian refuge, and as the Ice Age faded away her descendants migrated northwards. Following the Atlantic coast, they carried H1 into what would become the British Isles.