Is this the same group that the Doherty from Chicago worked with in Donegal and used to put out a newsletter plus website? Any tips on how I can follow up via e-mail on information I sought via the genealogy centre in Derry. I sent them a check last summer with my great grandfather's name and date of birth and have received nothing but my canceled check. How do I contact them? James Richard Doherty arrived in Philadelphia around 1864, married Mary Elizabeth Manning in Titusville, PA, and worked for the railroads moving eventually to Johnsonburg PA. James had a brother Charles in Bradford, PA and Mary had sisters in Johnsonburg. They had four children, Anna Doherty O'Connor, Cecelia Doherty Crowder, Richard Doherty (whom we cannot trace further than 112 when he was last in Johnsonburg, and their daughter Mary Elizabeth who married James John Maher of Kane whose family was from Offaly County-Portarlington and who owned a very prosperous oil well drilling company and dray business. They had four children, my father James John Junior, an electrical contractor, Mary Maher Smith, a teacher, Dorothy Maher Dremann and Richard L. Maher-who was politics editor of the Cleveland Press for over 40 years and internationally known for his integrity and fine journalism. We have just begun to research our Doherty line and have learned James was born in Londonderry. Now seeking more about his family as well as the MANNINGS, MAHERS, AND CROSSONS. Any leads on Richard Doherty and James and Charles parents (two siblings remained in Ireland and never immigrated) would be helpful. I have posted on the gene forums seeking Richard who spent a lot of time in the South as an engineer but no luck in finding what happened to him. Mary Maher Boehnlein, Ph.D. Professor Ermerita Cleveland State University