Congratulations!! I got one of those emails out of the blue last week. Not an Irish ancestor but one I had no info on after she was widowed and disappeared around 1820. A descendant from this second marriage wrote to me and said she remarried a third time and died an old lady in Iowa. Who knew. I last had sight of her in Pennsylvania. Without this email, I never would have found her and in fact did not hope to find what happened to her. I still don't know her maiden name, but I know about her later life. So, it is true. Someone somewhere may have the missing piece of the puzzle. Great news Erin. Chris 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!