Thank you Norm for sharing such a great experience. Oh, to be able to catch up with so many relatives from "the old country". Dale QLD ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jennette Gest" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, October 28, 2005 5:05 PM Subject: Re: Family re-union in Lullymore > Hi Norm > what a lovely story, & a wonderful trip to see all the family. > Jennette Gest nee Byrne > QLD AUS > [email protected] > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Norm Hamilton" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Friday, October 28, 2005 3:45 PM > Subject: Re: Family re-union in Lullymore > > >> >> Hi, >> I like to share this story of my trip to Ireland with the list. It's >> a >> great story not be cause it happened to me, but it shows that if you stay > at >> it the research does pay off ...big time. >> >> >> I've got a story for that I think you'll love being researchers, about >> my >> re-union with my cousins in Co.Kildare. We did the typical bus tour of >> Ireland starting out from Shannon airport. Then to Galway for a couple of >> days from there we headed to Killareny from there we headed to the > Co.Kerry >> area around Dingle bay. Then though Co.Cork up to Dublin City for a 2 day >> stay. On Thursday the 29 of Sept. I called my Cousin Helen Gorey(my > mother's >> mother family) >> who knew that we would be in Dublin for 2 days. She said, that her and >> father would pick us up in the morning on Sept.30 at about 9:30a.m.to > bring >> us back >> to Rathangan, Co.Kildare to meet her family and visit the local >> cemeteries >> to get photos of the family stones. We went to their house the same one >> my >> grand mother lived in the 1890's. We had some tea and scones talked >> awhile >> and then left to visit the cemeteries. From there they took Trish(my >> wife)and me to lunch(9 of us) at a local hotel and pub (best food I had >> in >> Ireland). Then we went to the Lullymore Heritage Center where my cousin >> Helen works for private tour of the center www.lullymorepark.com Unknown > to >> me Helen had sent out a letter to all the cousins telling them about our >> visit and how the researcher from Dublin that I was using had got us >> together, and that she had planned a re-union party at the center. Sixty > of >> my cousins responded that would be there for the re-union ... amazing. >> Now > I >> figured I would be meeting a couple back at their house latter in the >> evening ... boy did I figure wrong. As we were taking the tour Helen took > my >> wife aside and told her that there would be about sixty cousins waiting > for >> us at the center. What a surprise I found when I walk into the room. The >> building was a complete replica of the house my grand mother grow up in, >> complete with a peat burning hearth all fired up. Plus Helen had a chart >> from the ceiling to the floor with all the research we had collected with >> the help of the researcher, photos of my gr-mother Kate, my mother, >> Kate's >> brothers & sisters, school records, ship's manifest, birth records and >> wedding records. She even had the American & Ireland flags hanging from > the >> ceiling. Then to top that she had the researcher there also. Plus all > kinds >> of pies, scones, tea, coffee, wine, sandwiches ... unbelievable. Then the >> local newspaper came and took pictures and put a story in the paper >> http://www.leinsterleader.ie/DesktopDefault.aspx?tabid=4&DocumentID=17820 >> wait till you read the article. I was almost in tears after I walk into > the >> room and saw the chart on the wall and all my cousins and the 2 flags >> hanging up. I was speechless!! It was the high light of my trip, nothing >> could top this. From there we left for 3 days in London. We had a great > time >> seeing the sites even took the subway and buses, but nothing could beat >> Fridays re-union. The researcher wants to put the story in the Ireland >> Genealogy Societies magazine. She also wants to use it for her final >> paper >> for her certification, something like a masters program in Genealogy >> Research. What a trip to remember !! >> >> Latter, >> Norm H. >> >> >> >> ============================== >> View and search Historical Newspapers. Read about your ancestors, find >> marriage announcements and more. Learn more: >> http://www.ancestry.com/s13969/rd.ashx >> >> >> > > > > ============================== > Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million records added in the > last 12 months. Largest online collection in the world. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx > >