This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/XOH.2ACIB/2169.1.1.2.1 Message Board Post: DID NOT HAVE THIS INFO UNTIL BROWSING AND CAME UP WITH IT. THERE ARE SEVERAL MO. CAIN FAMILIES THAT WE DO NOT HAVE IDENTIFIED AS TO WHERE THEY FIT IN. DO NOT LET THE FACT THAT THEY THOUGHT THEIR PARENTS CAME FROM IRELAND KEEP YOU FROM SEARCHING BACK THROUGH THE STATES. KY. WAS A PLACE SEVERAL CAME THROUGH ON THEIR WAY HERE. THAT IS ALSO HARD TO FIGURE OUT. THE OLDER GENERATION WOULD TELL THE YOUNGER THAT THEIR ANCESTORS CAME FROM A CERTAIN PLACE, AND THE YOUNGER GENERATION DIDN'T REALIZE HOW FAR BACK IN TIME THAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN. WE HAVE FOUND THAT WITH OURS, THOMAS SON OF JAMES, SON OF JOHN, SON OF THOMAS? GAVE HIS FATHER AS BEING FROM IRELAND. JUST DIDN'T HAPPEN TO BE THAT WAY, AND WOULD HAVE BLOCKED OUT SEVERAL GENERATIONS, IF SOMEONE HAD NOT HAVE HAD THE REST OF THE STORY.