Hi - so as to Ports of Immigration like my g grandmother who came from Monaghan in ca.1880 then, and i was lead on a 'wild goose chase' being told she came from Belfast, and yet i found she was from Monaghan..... So maybe that is what my mother took as she meant her home in Ireland, yet she was telling story of her trip across coming from Belfast and she had to be in steerage and how horrible it was yet she remembered the singing they would all do aboard ship and her learning songs in other languages. So as to a person going to Belfast and you say they still were coming from Liverpool or Glasgow, did they usuallly take a different ship to the larger port from say Belfast then? How did that work? Thanks, Joan in rural MT Also, visit my 4 personal home pages on spirituality and genealogy: http://www.geocities.com/crystalwoman_2000/ crystalwoman@in-tch.com