Hi everyone! While my family stories always had the spelling of Fermanagh correct that was the only thing in the stories, vital records etc that was correct. My ggrandparents are liisted on their death certificates and daughter's marriage certificate as McDonnell and as having been 62 at the time of death. I have made many postings with this information. I finally found them in the 1900 US census in Brooklyn as McDonald. I know that it is the right listing as the ages and order of birth of the 3 daughters(my grandmother and 2 aunts) are correct, They were McDonalds and 6 and 8 years older than they were supposed to be according to their death certificates. Also on a great uncle's death certificate his name is McDonald yet his brother signs it as McDonnell. Somewhere along the line they changed the spelling and "adjusted" their ages. This certainly makes the search more interesting.. I can now correlate my greatgrandfather's birth in 1862, John Charles McDonald ( son of Hugh McDonald and Bessie Maguire) to the records in the Latter Day Saints site and have a townland? of Newtown Butler (?) in Fermanagh with the same parents as listed on the uncle's death certificate. It has been a long and sometimes frustrating search but in the end the results are worth it. I now have to locate the other 10 siblings who stayed in Ireland as far as we know. My great aunt was writing to some until she died in 1969 but no one has a record of the address where she was writing and that is a shame. No one ever said that we Irish were not an interesting people. I can't wait to fim up the rest of the information so that I can visit the area. Janet Morgan [email protected]