This message is Part b of a message I attempted to send yesterday but was deemed to be too long. Part 1 addressed the physical trip. Part 3 provides background on families I am researching. The primary objectives of my research on this trip were to: - 1. Access original Keary/Carey, Treacy/Tracy and McDoole/McDuell records, in Dublin and Roscrea, for the Roscrea and Bourney areas of County Tipperary.- 2. 'Walk' the ground of my ancestors.- 3. Meet/visit with a 3rd cousin. Continued from Part2a. RC Records. With the retirement of Father Kennedy in 2009 the Bourney church records were move to St Cronan's RC. We requested an opportunity to view the records and upon arrival were received with the utmost in hospitality. A very pleasant surprise was a typewritten (pre-computer) alphabetical listing, by year, of the Bourney Register (Thank you Father Kennedy, for a third time). But even it was not without its pitfalls, as we discovered the misspelling of a Casey entry as being Carey in the Register. We also discovered that the IFHF spelling of my grandfather's name as Kearey was Keary in the Roscrea Register. Another question resolved. It was such a thrill to see the 175+ year old register(s). As a result, I firmly believe that the Daniel Carey of Ballynough shown in the GV is most likely my g-g-grandfather. Thereby adding another generation to my tree. This conclusion is based on the discovery of the birth, in 1839, of a daughter, Margaret, to Daniel Keary and Mary Mahar of Ballynock. Sponsors were Martin Keary and Margaret Mahar. Of five Treacy/McDoole children baptized at Cournaganeen, the spelling of Eliza (Betty) McDoole's name was spelled MacDoon, McDoole, McDool, McDule and McDowel. The McDowel spelling introduced another child to Martin and Eliza's brood, Anne. She was born in May of 1837. Her sponsors were Hugh O'Brien and Judith Bergin. Timothy and Eliza Cummings Carey, of Ballynough, had at least three children; a Michael Carey was born to __ Carey and B__ Spooner of Gortderryboy in May 1839. Is there a family connection between these Careys? Additionally there appears to be links between the Kearys/Treacys and the Bergins, Fermoyles, and Maddens. A state of the art, online database of the Bourney RC Register (NLI Pos2478), capable of cross referencing dates/names/parents/sponsors/witnesses/townlands/etc, would be a great boon to researchers interested in this area. It is our understanding that there is an individual (Jimmy __) living in Clonakenny that has done extensive genealogical research on the families living in the area. Cousin Tess. The highlight of the trip was the opportunity to meet and spend time with a person who appears to be a direct link to my ancestral Irish home. Tess, and her husband Tim, grew up in Bourney. They will soon celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary. We spent two very enjoyable evenings with this gracious couple. Tim's descriptions of his service as an alter boy at the old Courgageneen RC Church were most interesting. Public records shows Tim's family name existing in the area well back into the 1700's. Tess, in turn, provided very graphic descriptions of walking the farm roads of Bourney with her grandmother as she related the family's history. Tess recalled how her grandmother told her that all of Martin Treacy's family, save two, had emigrated to the States. The two were her g-grandmother, Margaret Treacy and g-granduncle John, who was deaf and dumb. Tess indicated that "some Treacys" had visited the area in the 1950's. Unfortunately, no one was home and a neighbor (Kirwin) who talked to them did not get an address where the Treacys could be contacted. Through her own research, Tess has obtained census, marriage and death records supporting what her grandmother had told her. Of particular interest is that the spelling of Treacy on these records is consistent with (is the same as) the headstone for Martin and Eliza Treacy in the St. Patrick's cemetery, Barker, Niagara County, NY. I will be visiting Niagara County in mid-September as I continue my quest to find a document that definitively ties my NY ancestors to a specific location in Ireland. We urged Tess to continue her research and, most importantly, formally document her results. As a parting gift, Tess gave me a copy of John Grenham's book, Tracing Your Irish Ancestors . Two admonitions in the book were strongly reinforced on this trip. One, Irish records have many different spellings for names and places (e.g. Bourney/Bournea, Boolareagh/Boolarea/Boulerea, Gortderryboy/Gortderrybeg, Couraganeen/Couarguneen). The other, many people did not know the year they were born. Therefore do not count on ages shown on documents to be correct. The older the fiddle the sweeter the tune. .