Pat, Geez, that sounds almost as bad a nightmare as my Johnston family in Ireland... Good hunting, Cliff. Johnston "May the best you've ever seen, Be the worst you'll ever see;" from A Scots Toast by Allan Ramsay ----- Original Message ----- From: "pat lewis" <carmodyp@bellsouth.net> To: <CountyCork-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, August 25, 2009 6:51 PM Subject: [CO CORK] DNA and researching family name. >I have only been doing genealogy since 1965, using what ever I could > find at national archives, city archives , LDS, writing leters to > people of the name in Clare, Cork, Kery and Limerick, and trying to > match the name to someone in a County where my great grandfather "said" > he was born in Cork, on census from 1861-1901. He had the nerve to die > without leaving any proof of his existence except his children- 3 > sons, only one who married, and had one son and both dead, too. > Grandfather also was not considerate enough to make out a will since he > basically had nothing to leave anyone or leave a message of where he is > buried in London area Of England. Very thoughtless of him!!!!!!! Same > for great grandmother, the children of theirs that are also buried in > London area. Obvioulsy a very thoughtless family not caring about > future generations who may possibly look for signs that they actually > existed and where! And they haven't made any "ghostly apearances that I > know of to me or any so called mediums, tho I do wish they would try. > LOL!!!!!!!!!! > When you only have a name IE; Jones, John b. Cork, with no idea of > where in the county, altho, the familiar name actually originated in > another county and there are many of the same name in surrounding > counties all the way back to Brian Boru it seems, sometimes they are > just not found , even after almost 45 years. I have had others insist > they have found Grandfather and Grandmother.......so far no match, > especially since i have no idea of Grandma's maiden name , only a > possibility of one. The only thing they find is Census I already have > from England 1861-1901...there are no records/census in Ireland of > 1821-on til maybe 1901. :-) I do not find them in the site you > provided > Check out the Ireland GenWeb County Cork Website at: > http://www.rootsweb.com/~irlcor/ > It is a good place to find information related to your family research. > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > COUNTYCORK-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message