Thanks to everyone that posted answers to my questions and found some family for me. It is the most progress I have had in years, and now with the churchrecords online I can search Kerry and am finding supposed family outside of Muhrer (Newtownsandes) and Duagh. I am aware of the Irish naming patterns and I know that is a fairly good guide to helping to find family. One of my questions is that was there a pattern for godparents? Were grandparents sometimes used, and was there an order for that. My ggggrandmother's maiden name was according to family Fallahee, but I am finding nothing under that spelling, but getting considerable hits from the name Falvey. I know the rules to consider is that people back then often spelled names phonetically, esp when they came to USA with the accents and spelling of the people checking the immgrants into the country, because the info on Fallahee came from someone in the USA MY last question is since I am finding people in other areas than I expected, is it likely that they might have been from other counties such as Limerick / I have checked Limerick on the church records site and found nothing of the O'Connors. How far down in the county should I look? Did people frequently marry from far away? Thanks for past and any information you can share with me.