Hi Diane, Thank you so much for your reply. I have started writing to O'Deas in the area but with no luck to date. I will send off moer letters this week. I will check and see if there is a Postmaster at Lisdeen and send him a letter also. A lively lady sent me the information on the Obit. I wrote to the Clare champion twice but have had no answer back. Any clues for this?? Do you have their email address in case I have been writing to the wrong address?? Thanks again for your time and help. Kindest regards Faye -----Original Message----- From: irl-clare-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:irl-clare-bounces@rootsweb.com]On Behalf Of DLCulhane@cs.com Sent: Saturday, 14 October 2006 10:53 PM To: irl-clare@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [IRL-CLARE] Lookup Request Hi, Faye: I don't know that area of Clare well, but I looked up O'Dea in Clare on eircom.ie and found 122 listings. You could check a map of Ireland and see if any are near your family's old homestead, then try writing them. (New Quay is not near Kilkee, so there may be no connection between the nine children who drowned and your family.) Finally, you could ask the Clare Champion to post an inquiry for you about Thomas O'Dea, or ask the Lisdeen postmaster (if there is one) if there are still relatives around. 1948 was not that long ago--there probably are. Finally, if you post again, you should change the subject line to something like O'Dea from Kilkee. Some people read only subject lines, and you want to catch the eye of people who might know the family. Good luck! Diane ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to IRL-CLARE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.408 / Virus Database: 268.13.4/475 - Release Date: 13/10/2006 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.408 / Virus Database: 268.13.4/476 - Release Date: 14/10/2006