It is always terrific when a connection like this occurs. It used to happen more frequently when the lists were more active. About 10 years ago a distant cousin, son of my ggrandmother's sister, was searching for family information about the same time I was. After several emails, we finally confirmed our relationship and shared pictures and documents. Our gggs would have been so happy. Now...if a connection to my gggrandfather Samuel Rawlins could be made in Ireland or England...I would be overjoyed. Congratulations folks! Your successes keep us looking. Bev W -----Original Message----- From: Christina Hunt <chrisnina@gmail.com> To: irl-tipperary <irl-tipperary@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sat, Oct 29, 2011 8:20 pm Subject: [IRL-TIP] Never give up Congratulations!! got one of those emails out of the blue last week. Not an Irish ncestor but one I had no info on after she was widowed and disappeared round 1820. A descendant from this second marriage wrote to me and said he remarried a third time and died an old lady in Iowa. Who knew. I ast had sight of her in Pennsylvania. ithout this email, I never would have found her and in fact did not ope to find what happened to her. I still don't know her maiden name, ut I know about her later life. o, it is true. Someone somewhere may have the missing piece of the puzzle. reat news Erin. hris Erin James wrote: This is just a reminder to Never Give Up!! After years of banging my head against a brick wall today I got an email from a truly "long-lost" cousin. Several years ago I posted a message on Rootsweb, today, out of the blue, I got an answer. My father's family left Ireland in 1927 and settled in Long Island. He had two brothers and a sister. My father died very young, as did my mother. I lost all contact with my father's family (we lived in Florida). About 15 years ago I began trying to find the cousins I knew were out there. My search led me to second cousins in England, and I was thrilled to find them. They had no clue to the rest of the family in the US so were unable to help me with that search. But it was great fun meeting them! And now, today I get that impossible email. He'd seen a different posting I left somewhere about my father's name change. He'd Googled the name he knew my father had used and one thing led to another. Gotta love the internet! GP County Tipperary website: ttp://www.igp-web.com/tipperary/ ------------------------------ o unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to IRL-TIPPERARY-request@rootsweb.com ith the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of he message