Hi Alanna Here's another coincidence - many years ago my mother would come each night from work complaining about the supervisor on our new railway building site. He would chip her for rushing for the train each morning and she didn't take too kindly to his comments. I laugh now nearly 50 years later - that man is now my husband. Poor mum must be turning over in her grave. Fortunately, she did have a good Irish sense of the ridiculous. Regards, Kay ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alanna Scanlon" <alannal@prodigy.net> To: <irl-clare@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, October 09, 2006 5:08 AM Subject: Re: [IRL-CLARE] Scanlon > Dear Kay, > > One has to take a chance. > > Here are some what I think are interesting examples. I was contacted by a B Sheedy because he had seem a post of mine. He is a relatively close relative and gave me some good information. But with his family, he quit working on our history. Another person did the same in contacting me. He had a letter written by my g grandmother here in the states to his relative. He could not believe that I would know who the people were in the letter. I most certainly did, even my mother who was then in the letter just a child. I just wrote about my Elias Kelly Callahan and this letter writer was his widow. > > My mother, my brothers and I were traveling in Alaska some many years ago traveling by train from Mt McKinley to Anchorage. We had spoken to an older couple for most of the 8 hours. At the end of the trip, they asked my brothers where they worked. To shorten the story, they worked in a location in So. CA. They were from the upper mid West as Michigan. It turned out she was the mother of their supervisor!! > > I took a work required course for 2 days 40 miles to the west of me. In the class was a woman named Coffey. I asked about her name. My mother's direct family names associated with other surnames for a couple hundred years in say the early 1700's in Virginia and NC to 1869. They were involved with the Regulator Movement in NC and with the horrible Gov Tryon. Some people left and went to Georgia and SC. Her husband's people were "my Coffey's" who went to Georgia. I am not related to them, but if one sees a Coffey and a Jones and a Watts, then those Jones' and Watts' are mine. > > One just has to take the chance and try to see if there is a connection. As with the train, if we had not sat near this couple in the mostly vacant train, if we had not spoken to each other, if the lady had not asked a question, we would never have known the connection those thousands and thousands of miles from each of our homes. > > Alanna > > kaynkev <kaynkev@tpg.com.au> wrote: > Hi Alanna > > I posted it in case. Took a punt the a couple of months ago with a name > that appeared on a Queensland list asking for anyone searching for > McMahon/Reilly - even though I didn't believe that there were any (at least, > alive) in Australia. Turned out we're second cousins and live within a > couple hundred kilometres of each other so we got together the other week. > Wonderful. I can't believe it after all these years of searching. > Also amazingly, my first cousin who came with me, and our new cousin, we all > have a strong family resemblance - could have passed for sisters. > > Regards, > Kay > > ------------------------------- > 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 > >