Well I don't know how many people think a townland has a town! It does not in many many cases. The link below will give you pictures of churches, townlands which even today are just empty rolling hills, I hope it helps understanding how empty a townland was and still is...... http://www.geograph.org.uk/mapbrowse.php?t=tolJ5oOXXJ0oOJFoOXXJfolNXJqoOOuJL5405o4wZNbw4at88tMMMZ&i=1&j=1&zoomin=1?59,10 Many people think 18th century churches still exist and expect to be able to arrive at the door expecting records to be there....have a look at what you are up against, you can move to any part of Ireland by clicking on "Map"..... Joy Hogg wrote: > I am a teacher and we do know about the value of attaching information to a story, especially a shocking one. I remember a history teacher walking in and slamming his books on his desk (that's always how he got our attention) and saying "Ann Boleyn had six fingers." From that we learned all about Henry the 8th, religion, all his wives, etc. > > I am working on family history books on Ancestry and I am adding all sorts of stories, pictures, art (documented) to make it interesting and real. I was telling my husband about our historical conjecture and he asked if I intended to put it in, not knowing which applied to James Hogg, trundling over the hill and approaching Tyrone County and Cookstown. I will put all of the possibilities in. Any one of our historical speculations will make the genealogy more real and more interesting. > Joy > > ------------- > Our community web-site: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~cotyroneireland > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to COTYRONEIRELAND-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > --- > avast! Antivirus: Inbound message clean. > Virus Database (VPS): 090201-0, 01/02/2009 > Tested on: 01/02/2009 23:48:42 > avast! - copyright (c) 1988-2009 ALWIL Software. > http://www.avast.com > > > > >