Hopefully this will be my last reply to the list in following up my promised extra snippets of info. This one is to once again provide the URL for Boyd GRAY's free online guidebook to Irish research. Here is the URL for it: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~donegal/genbooklet.pdf AND to Catherine TREWBY in NZ: Thanks for the nice 'wrap' Cathy; and for providing Marg with so much top quality information. Whenever I start working on trying to break down my own many brick walls, I will come running to you for assistance! Your knowledge and approach are both just wonderful. Season's Greetings again to all. ray in oz On 23/12/2013, at 7:21 PM, marg o'leary <[email protected]> wrote: … am new to the list and hoping for some pointers to researching in Tyrone. The family I am tracking is that of James Simpson married to Mary Thompson. Possibly of Omagh. I don't know how many children they had all told - but the following went to Australia. John migrated age 27 in 1849 , so born about 1822, which would make his parents born abt 1795 perhaps. William followed in 1853 with wife Eliza Thompson, I think these men were blacksmiths. A sister Margaret (mrs Knight) arrived before 1856 and the last three children, Susan 20, Alexander 18 and James 16 arrived in 1856, and certainly when they arrived, both parents were deceased. They were sponsored by the tow older brothers. Alexander had the name of the place he was born as something that reads like Delgr Tyrone, and I wonder what that was. I would really like to know more of this family's background in Ireland and if there were more family members. Most grateful about advice of where to look. … Marg OLeary … NSW