At 05:15 AM 11/27/2005, wm.karr@insightbb.com wrote: >Listers, > >I just found out that my wife's great grandfather, John Torpey, came from >County Cork and settled in Chicago. I do know that the maiden named of the >woman he married and later divorced was Donoghue - no forename is known at >this time. That is basically all the information I have on him. I do not have >any dates of birth or time when he emigrated. I know this is very limited >information, to say the least. However, any information that can be found >would be greatly appreciated, especially any connection to the Torpeys >(Tarpeys). > >Bill Karr in Peoria, IL., USA Hi Bill, If I were you , I'd be asking as many of my relatives as I could did they know about this guy and how much info they had on him. Your main priority here is when he emigrated. If you can pin down a good guess as to the year he came to the US, then you can have an idea of his age as well. From there, you can extrapolate out things like DOB, place etc, then try to confirm those through further research. I'd be going through as many of the shipping logs they have stored at the Library of Congress as I could.....or at your local genealogical society. Try running an IGI search as well.....could give you a few clues. Good Luck :) Carl. -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.1.362 / Virus Database: 267.13.8/183 - Release Date: 11/25/2005