Also look for derivative spellings. My GrGranny was Annie Kearney, often spelled Carney. She lived in London, U.K. and married my Welsh grgrandfather, but was known as wild Irish Annie!! Wendy ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sharon Kavanagh" <kavanagh@99webstreet.com> To: <irl-dublin@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, November 25, 2006 12:54 PM Subject: Re: [IRL-DUBLIN] [KEARNEY] Thanksgiving > Peter, > Have you looked at Ithaca, NY records, city directories, history, etc., to > see if there were certain times/reasons Irish immigrants came to that > place? > (For example, many Irish went to Chicago around 1850 for jobs constructing > a > (Sag) canal.) The local historical society might be a source of > information. > If you can find influx(es) of immigrants maybe you can find Kearneys > arriving in Ithaca and thereby begin to narrow your search. > > As to searching for Kearneys only in Ireland, it looks as tho they > are/were > everywhere in similar numbers, and your given name (John) is the most > common > in Ireland. That middle name, Douglas, is intriguing...could be a > surname... > > Good luck to you! > Sharon Kavanagh > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "The Bookshelf" <bookshelf@hypernet.com> > To: <kearney@rootsweb.com>; "Morrisey" <MORRISEY@rootsweb.com>; > "Morrissey" > <MORRISSEY@rootsweb.com>; "Morrissy" <MORRISSY@rootsweb.com>; "NFLD list" > <NFLD-ROOTS@rootsweb.com>; "Ohannon" <OHANNAN@rootsweb.com>; "OTOOLE" > <OTOOLE@rootsweb.com>; "ROOTSL" <ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com>; "Shipwreck" > <SHIPWRECK-L@rootsweb.com>; "TIPPERARY" <IRL-TIPPERARY-L@rootsweb.com>; > "Wales" <WALES-GEN-L@rootsweb.com>; "Welch" <WELCH-L@rootsweb.com>; > "Welsh" > <WELSH-L@rootsweb.com>; "Whitten" <WHITTEN-L@rootsweb.com>; "History, > Illinois" <IL-HISTORY@rootsweb.com>; "Irish Canadian" > <Irish-Canadian@rootsweb.com>; "Kerr" <KERR@rootsweb.com>; "KILKENNYL" > <KILKENNY@rootsweb.com>; "Lancashire" <LANCSLIFE@rootsweb.com>; "Lancsgen" > <LANCSGEN@rootsweb.com>; "LIMERICK" <IRL-LIMERICK@rootsweb.com>; "Louth" > <IRL-LOUTH@rootsweb.com>; "MAYO-L" <MAYO@rootsweb.com>; "McDermott" > <MCDERMOTT-D@rootsweb.com>; "McDonald" <McDONALD@rootsweb.com>; "McEvoy" > <MCEVOY@rootsweb.com>; "McHugh" <McHUGH@rootsweb.com>; "Cavan" > <IRL-CAVAN@rootsweb.com>; "CHANNEL-ISLANDS" > <CHANNEL-ISLANDS@rootsweb.com>; > "Chicago" <IRISH-IN-CHICAGO@rootsweb.com>; "Clan Kerr" > <CLAN-KERR@rootsweb.com>; "Clare" <IRL-CLARE@rootsweb.com>; "Cook" > <COOK-CO-IL@rootsweb.com>; "Cork" <IRL-CORK@rootsweb.com>; "DUBLIN" > <IRL-DUBLIN@rootsweb.com>; "Durham" <ENG-DURHAM@rootsweb.com>; > "Fitzpatrick" > <FITZPATRICK@rootsweb.com>; "Galway" <IRL-GALWAY@rootsweb.com>; "Hannan" > <HANNAN@rootsweb.com>; "Hannen" <HANNEN@rootsweb.com>; "Hannon" > <HANNON@rootsweb.com>; "HENNESSY" <HENNESSY@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Friday, November 24, 2006 12:06 PM > Subject: Re: [IRL-DUBLIN] [KEARNEY] Thanksgiving > > >> Greetings All - >> >> I have been a subscriber to this list for some time in hopes that I may >> garner some information that may lead to being able to trace my heritage. >> So >> far that hasn't happened. But then I have so little to go on. I was >> adopted >> more than 60 years ago and know very little except my birth name, John >> Douglas Kearney, and place of birth, Ithaca, New York, and that there >> were >> four siblings prior to my birth. >> >> My question to this list, therefore, is: Are there certain parts of >> Ireland >> that tend to carry the family name Kearney where I may make a narrower >> search for ancestors? Again, I have had no success in garnering any >> further >> information about my biological family. And suggestions? >> >> Thank you for allowing me to make this inquiry. >> >> >> Peter Johnson >> >> The Book Shelf >> 14 State Street >> Ellsworth, ME 04605 >> USA >> >> 207.667.1120 >> email: bookshelf@hypernet.com >> >> "Next to You....We Love a Stack of Books." >> > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > IRL-DUBLIN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >