Mary, that's a wonderful idea! I am the third generation of Flahies looking for our ancestor Michael in Ireland. I hereby pick Dingle, Kerry as his birthplace, because that's a likely place for the surname. Thanks for the idea. Genie Flahie -----Original Message----- From: Mary Simpson Sent: Sunday, August 11, 2013 6:39 PM To: ray.marshall@gmail.com Cc: irl-cork@rootsweb.com ; irl-kerry@rootsweb.com Subject: [IRL-KERRY] Knowing " where they were all from " Hello Ray, despite always knowing where our great grandmama Catherine Callaghan, ( whose father was Jerry Callaghan ) came from in Cork - down to the actual fields - I STILL cannot find her baptismal record , which should be Ballinhassig about 1840 ….. and we have the names of brothers & sisters, nephews & nieces etc. so perhaps it's all academic, and those who don't know what part of Ireland their family came from can adopt whatever place they most fancy! It would be a lot less hassle. At least the US, Australian and New Zealand listers have the possible option of searching ship's registers and port documents, something that British listers can only envy, as their families came with no paper trail to search at all. Mary _______________ --------------- Policies of the IRL-Kerry List: http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~irlker/mailing.html To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to IRL-KERRY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message. To subscribe to the Digest version of the list, please send an email to IRL-KERRY-D-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'subscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message. To visit the County Kerry Research and Resources Page go to: http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~irlker/ Share your stuff! If you transcribed research data, share it with the Irish genealogy community. Contribute it to the Kerry website to reach a wide audience. Contact Ann Hammer, data maintenance. Her contact info is at http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~irlker/ contrib.html ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to IRL-KERRY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message