Are thick on the ground around Meath and Westmeath but can I get a response from a descendant? No perhaps when I win the lottery eh? many Meath and Westmeath parishes BMD have been extracted for this name and its many variants and are available to same namers......and so are the Irish GRO Indexes... If you are a Geoghegan..come ye into the parlour jo --------------------------------- See my all new Volume 12 Newsletter: www.btinternet.com/~finty/ ---------------------------------