Ah, but would ye have seen glorious Peoria? gene pratt ----- Original Message ----- From: <mautrav@aol.com> To: <irish-american@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, January 09, 2010 7:12 PM Subject: Re: [IRISH-AMER] Famine era Irish Immigration to the US > I've done the same thing, Pat. After not using this site for a while, I > went back to it yesterday, and found info that I guess I had not searched > for > before. It gave me a clue on some relatives who lived in Illinois - away > from Chicago. Had I done the new search sooner, I could have saved a car > trip to Peoria. Oh well! > > Maureen N > > > In a message dated 1/9/2010 6:48:57 P.M. Central Standard Time, > nymets22@gmail.com writes: > > Thanks Maureen, for reminding me about this site. Often when I hear > about > a > site, I spend hours, maybe days, searching on it, using my surnames with > their many spellings, then forget about the site. It has been a couple > of > years since I searched the NARA site, the info from books I first looked > at > in the New York City Public Library. Since those days, I have gathered > more > information on my family and will now go back to the NARA site and search > some more. Never know what I'll find. > > >