Hi, I'm a new subscriber though I've corresponded individually with some of you before. Carole Richardson forwarded to me the Tenison Grove documents that Terry has been transcribing and I was hooked! I'm descended from Casper Ruckle through Sebastian, then Daniel, then George of Adare, then his son Michael who immigrated to America about 1820. Michael joined his uncle, David Ruckle, in Allegany Co. (now Garrett Co.) Maryland. His brother Henry and family came in 1822 bringing Michael's three motherless sons with them. Michael then married Kesiah Friend and they produced my great great grandfather, David, plus three daughters. The family moved on to Muskingum Co. Ohio in 1830 where they lived near Michael's brother, Rev. Thomas R. Ruckle, and their sister, the thrice married Elizabeth Ruckle Greene, Smith, Shrire. Another sister, Catherine, immigrated in 1848 with her husband, Christopher Ruckle (her first cousin), and their eleven children. Yet another sister, Ann's, husband and children in Michigan in 1860 (I don't know if they immigrated before or after Ann's death). David Ruckle Married Margaret Roush and moved first to Iowa and then to Michigan. They separated in 1881 and I've been unable to trace David's movements after that. Their son, Daniel, lived for most of his life in Grand Rapids where he worked as a machinist for the rail road. His oldest son, Edward Henderson Ruckle (my grandfather), was quite inventive. Some of the patents on the early electric stove are in his name. He and his wife Mabel planned from the very beginning to have twelve children -- and did. My father, Paul, was number nine. In 1915 Edward and Mabel relocated to California where they raised chickens and later owned a Dahlia farm. Nine of their twelve children are still living and have progeny spread all over the United States. I would be happy to have my name added to the resource list to share look-up chores. I have copies of: "Palatine Families of Ireland", by Hank Jones "To Their Heirs Forever, by Eula C. Lapp "People Make Places", by Patrick J. O'Connor "Early Palatine Emigration", by Walter Knittle I'm pleased to make the acquaintance of of you all via the internet..........Karen Opgenorth