I'd have you friend first check the 1901 and 1911 censuses to see if her people were still there: http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/search/ Fully searchable and free. He might also want to join the Armagh mailing list at: http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/index/intl/NIR/NIR-ARMAGH.html There are people on the list from County Armagh who might be willing to look in the phone book to see if the surname is still in the same area. Here is the site for the Northern Ireland Phone book where she might check the surname: http://www.numberway.com/phone-numbers/3/ Just joined this particular list and trying to help someone out with tracing > descendants. Here is his message to me: > > "One family William and Anne [nee McKenzie] Reid were farmers in Tullyroan > Co Armagh. Anne was a sister of my Grt Grandfather, There were ten or eleven > children, Anne died not long after her last child was born. > Three children died young, the seven survivors were, Mary Jane, Alison, > Thomas, William, Elizabeth, Henry,and Rebecca. The ten children were all > born between 1875 and 1895 in Ireland. Thomas and Rebecca emigrated to Santa > Barbara in the U.S. about 1912. > Rebecca married ? Fawcett, she may not have had any family. > Thomas married ??? they had two daughters that I know of, dont have their > names. > So it is possible there would be descendants there, it would be good to > find them. > I still dont have anything on the other five children whether they > emigrated or not, either way there would have to be descendants there as > well" > > -- Pat Connors, Sacramento CA http://www.connorsgenealogy.com