I thought this interesting seeing as how so many of you comment on similarities between photos you have and your living relatives....... One of the days this week, I was sitting beside a man in the NA and we got to chatting - he was over from England, visiting his sister at the family home and doing some resaerch. Anyway - he told me how it was that he got interested in genealogy - and I'm hoping to remember the details well enough to recount this - I'm fuzzy on a few bits During the last American Presidential Election, he happened to see a photo of George Bush on the campaign trail - in the same photo, there was another man. The researcher couldn't believe his eyes - the man in the photo was the image of his father. He cut out the photo and showed it to his wife and asked her who she thought it was, and she said his father - his father had been dead for twenty years! He knew some of his fathers brothers or his Grandfathers brothers had gone to the States. So, he decided to take the next step, he called the Newspaper and they knew the name of the man in the photo - he called some phone company in the States who told him that so long as the number was listed it was in the public domain and they could give it to him. Now, he had a phone number. He still wasn't too sure what he wanted to do with this info - so, he held on for a few months - then, curiosity got the better of him and he made the call - to Ohio. Sure enough, the man he called knew that his father or grandfather had come from Ireland, but he'd never done any research into his ancestry - they spoke for a while and realised they were related - and now, this man is busy researching their ancestry for the two of them There you go now - it can be a very, very small world that we live in! Jane

Hi Dr. Jane. That's a great story! On a somewhat different tack, you've probably seen the statue of the Irish author, Padraic O'Conaire (Patrick O'Connor) in Eyre Square. I first saw a picture of it on a daily calendar that one of my daughters-in-law gave me one Christmas. Each page had a different picture of various Irish locales, people, etc. When I saw this particular page, I almost fell over. O'Connor looks just like my late brother, Frank!! I showed the picture to my sons and other relatives and asked who it looked like. They all said, " Uncle Frank". We have no O'Connors in our family...our Galway people were Tierneys and Divineys, but the likeness is uncanny. I've tried finding a "real" picture of O'Connor, but so far, no luck...just a picture of the statue. Thanks again for the story. Terry in Michigan ----- Original Message ----- From: Dr. Jane Lyons<mailto:sniliaghin@iol.ie> To: IRL-GALWAY-L@rootsweb.com<mailto:IRL-GALWAY-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, May 13, 2005 5:06 PM Subject: [GALWAY] A Photo story............. I thought this interesting seeing as how so many of you comment on similarities between photos you have and your living relatives.......>>>>