article_snippet.sent: Ms Smolenyak claimed Ms Smolenyak discovered a key flaw in how genealogists previously compiled Bill Clinton family tree in misidentifying Hannah Jones.
article_snippet.sent: Ms Smolenyak said the mistake was made after two children of the same name were born in Scranton in Pennsylvania between 1882 and 1883, and experts previously 'latched onto' misidentifying Hannah Jones.
article_snippet.sent: Ms Smolenyak discovered the error while doing research for a piece about Bill Clinton for Irish America and managed to trace the correct woman using marriage records and obituaries.
article_snippet.sent: The revelations come after Bill Clinton appeared to make a mistake regarding Bill Clinton ancestry last week when Bill Clinton suggested all Bill Clinton ancestors were immigrants.
article_snippet.sent: Bill Clinton was later forced to correct the error after it was proven that Hannah Jones was born in the US in the 1880s.