I agree also, I think there must be some sort of genetic memory or something. My ancestors left Monaghan in 1849, others left Tyrone in 1867 and another left Dublin for Lancashire where he married and started a family and then they emigrated in 1885 & 1887. I have one other - Benjamin Curran, a gg grandfather. Notes say he was from Ireland and born in either Ireland or Canada (how is that for searching for a needle in a haystack!!!) The only real record we have for him is that of his marriage to Sarah Kennison in the St. Paul d'Abbotsford Anglican Church in 1827 in Quebec. (Is Kennison an Irish surname??) I am sitting here right now listening to my third CD by the Irish Tenors - the music makes my blood "sing" and some of the words bring tears. Finbar is singing "Forty Shades of Green" right now from my brand new "Ellis Island" CD. Elaine Searching: Irish: McCullough, McNally, Glasse, Martin, Mulvaney, Curran and English: Phethean and Mansfield Scotland: Giffen ----- Original Message ----- From: Tom & Therese Hoare <thoard@aceconnect.com.au> To: <IRL-MONAGHAN-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2001 1:29 PM Subject: Re: BRINGING IRISH CIVIL REGISTRATION INTO THE 21st CENTURY > Yes Evelyn, and not only Americans! We of Irish extraction are far flung > over the whole wide world and all feel the same. I agree wholeheartedly > with your observations about we elderly family historians, not having > enough time left to us, to wait to benefit from the release of the records, > that will help us to find the places we long to visit. When we know were to > go, we will all be pleased to tred the paths our ancestors trod and to > breathe the air they breathed. To see the rivers and streams and the > beautiful shades of green has long since been the theme of the songs the > exiles sang and which we all sing in our homes and in Irish Clubs around the > world. > > No matter how long ago it has been since our ancestors left the shores of > their homeland, we their descendants, still feel a large part of our hearts > belong to Ireland. > >