In a message dated 3/17/03 12:51:36 PM Eastern Standard Time, wolfe2@citynet.net writes: > You can always check the Irish surname book by McLaught or > something like that Thank you. I'll have to look at it the next time I volunteer up there. My difficulty is finding the original immigrant as most of my ancestors have been in the US for such a long time. I was saying earlier that when I was younger I thought that I was around 3/8 Irish. Now, I'd be surprised if I was more than 3/32 Irish. My corned beef and cabbage dinner tasted pretty good although my 1/4 plus Irish daughter didn't care for it. She did like the soda bread though. Patricia