On Sun, 13 Jan 2008 13:48:02 -0500, ChrisGW <newsgroups1@hotmail.com> wrote: >On the 1930 U.S. Census (Brooklyn Kings County New York)under Johanna >Wilkenshoff she is listed as being from the "Irish Free State". Is this Ireland? >Was this Ireland being free from England? > The Irish Free State / Saorstát Éireann was the political entity existing from 1922 to 1937 which is now the Republic of Ireland. It was a self-governing dominion with the UK monarch as titular head. According to the Wikipaedia article on the Irish Free State, a change in the status of the UK monarch in 1927 started the process of the development from dominion to republic which appears to have proceeded effectively unopposed.