That's a beautiful story. Thanks, Riobard. Phil Riobard O'Dwyer wrote: > Even though things are looking bad, never throw in the towel. A lovely couple from Arizona, U.S.A., arrived to me a few days before my (& Joan's) 50th wedding anniversary. They felt that they had the name of a mother ancestor, didn't know the name of her husband, but that the ancestors had four named children, the eldest who they thought was born in Castletownbere or somewhere around it in 1830 ---- all of whom had gone to the States by 1843. I didn't want to let them go back disappointed, so the following day, from the morning until 10 o'clock that night, I searched every parish in the Beara Peninsula ---- and eventually found the ancestors, not under the surname Harrington, but under one of the many Harrington Branch-Names under which every one of them was written into the Parish Records. The ancestors were from a different Parish to Castletownbere. The couple were staying in Kenmare and were to travel to Dingle the following day, but when they heard that I had found out! w! > here the ancestors were from, they decided to return to Beara instead and to walk the land that their ancestors had lived in prior to the Famine. They were thrilled to bits. > People in and from the States often give Castletownbere as the place from which their ancestors were from. But Castletownbere is only a guideline. Castletownbere was a well-known seaport in the olden days, but the ancestors could have come from any Parish in the Beara Peninsula. And, more difficult still, most people like Sullivans/O'Sullivans and Harringtons were put into the Parish Records with their Branch/Names only ---- so finding them, unless one has alot of experience, is hard going. The passing years will make it almost impossible. > ---- Riobard. > > -- > I am using the free version of SPAMfighter for home users. > SPAMfighter has removed 1599 spam emails to date. > Paying users do not have this message in their emails. > Get the free SPAMfighter here: http://www.spamfighter.com/len > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to BEARA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message