Thank you Jane.....I am so grateful for this forum. Leaving for Ireland soon, ordered a file from LDS, and just hoping I have more information before I arrive in Ireland. Barbara In a message dated 6/22/2005 11:48:47 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, IRL-GALWAY-D-request@rootsweb.com writes: X-Message: #3 Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2005 01:11:17 +0100 From: "Jane Lyons PhD." <sniliaghin@iol.ie> To: IRL-GALWAY-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <00a301c57788$134f9f50$2101a8c0@nytjxzpkk1v6ap> Subject: Do you mind? Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit If I go into hiding for a week or two or four................ while I sort out the most popular Galway parishes??!! Wow, to the response so far I hop you all meet someone reseraching your surname. Jane who is actually related to Lyon's and Noonan's from galway - but not actively searching