Hi Tracy, What a nice letter!. \you are a super person!.I know,,,,, maybe I,m just going through a phase right now. I think I am frustrated because when my husband was alive i tild him that one day I would find out where in Ireland his people came from and even though I had been to Ireland and found nothing at the Yola Place I guess it discouraged me in finding the definate townland there. The most I have gotten has been through Cheshire family History Library and the sources they have and someone named vanessa Dixon who has been a godsend in finding a very important ancestor named Andrew Spence. We have been told that they came from Wexfiord but it has been difficult to pin them down there. So, after 37 yrs I,m kind of disappointed in the lack of material in Ireland that is available unlee one knows the Townland they came from. However Bargy somehow seems to hold a key???? Just thought I,d let you know my thought. So glad that you have unearthed some of your heritage! cheers, [email protected] Tracy Keenan Lloyd <[email protected]> wrote: Viola, I too would like to encourage you. Just give it a break for awhile. I searched for 8 years for a lost branch of my family stemming from Wexford. I found them in Alberta, Canada last June and visited them right away. My elders had never known a cousin until I found them. I too thought nobody else cared. It's just that not everybody has the passion and resourcefulness we do. In one month 19 of those Canadian descendants will be coming to the States to meet the rest of their family here. It'll be the first family reunion we've ever had. Finding them has tied together the ends of time for me and given us all new family. Nobody will know the years of frustration, money, obsessive nights at the computer, time and brick walls we go through. Just take a breather and come back to it when it's fun again. One day one brick in that wall will crumble and a flood of answers will pour out. Somebody will thank you one day for all you've done and know that they weren't alone in caring about the family history. Tracy -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Thomas Sutton Sent: Monday, July 02, 2007 7:01 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [IRL-WEXFORD] Going Bonkers Viola; Couldn't help but comment on your remark about closing up shop.I'm 70 and been going through papers and pictures and trash for about 40 of those years. I am on so many lists I expect to be investigated by the govt.. People like us justy have to do it. There will always be some one else who wants to take up the search when we are gone. Someone else will turn 50 or 60 someday and suddenly want to know where they came from. Believe me all the work wont be for nothing. Without family historians like all of us, nobody would ever be able to tell the generations coming up where they were from or who their ancestors were. Keep pluggin away. Thom Sutton VIOLA HOAR wrote: Hi mary, you are right. I think I,m going to knock off doing Genealogy. It,s getting to be really too much. and when you think that ALL the years, money, time,work, sleepless nights from sorting out alot if this STUFF and accumulating Volumes and papers enough to fill an archive AND MAYBE somebody in the family will even care about all that stuff is enough to make you CLOSE UP SHOP!. Regards, Viola ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Someone told me that 90% of the people who fish spend 90% of their time fishing in the wrong places...where there are no fish. Looking for ancestors is a lot like fishing but we do not have any depth finders or fish locaters. Yes after 37 years one would think that one got a nibble or two. What fishermen do is cast the net on the other side.....try another place or another approach. I have only been at my search for 25 years and still keep trying. I have expanded my search to other counties in Ireland. I also look under Gaelic spelling of the family name as that is interesting as well as educational. One has to get ones rewards from other sources in some instances. Helping other with their brick walls to me is rewarding, while I try to find more on my man back in Ireland. I have turned to DNA to see if that will help...it is expensive and so far not productive but it has been educational. DNA takes a lot of added research into strange an unexplored regions. Have you searched the Annals of the 4 masters it is online? What was the name of the area you know as county Wexford before it became Co. Wexford....you might want to learn when that county was formed and if the records could be under another name. Then there are some folks that were so poor that there are just no records of them. Sometimes one has to accept the fact that there are no documentation on our ancestors.... All or our ancestors did not leave a trail for us to follow or to find. It was not uncommon for people to change their name or to be known by another name. The spelling in records may have also been changed especially if one could not read or Wright. We do family research as it fills a need within us to know more about our ancestors. We do it for ourselves. Others may or may not appreciate our efforts and some in our family may see us as wasting our time. If we recognize that we do it for ourselves then we will not be disappointed when others fail to appreciate our efforts. you have gotten a lot of good advise. My best advise is to strike off in another direction and to do that for yourself and not for recognition of others. Work at a pace that suits you and not at a pace that suits others. ----- Original Message ----- From: "VIOLA HOAR" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2007 3:01 PM Subject: Re: [IRL-WEXFORD] Going Bonkers > Hi Tracy, > What a nice letter!. \you are a super person!.I know,,,,, > maybe I,m just going through a phase right now. I think I am frustrated > because when my husband was alive i tild him that one day I would find out > where in Ireland his people came from and even though I had been to > Ireland and found nothing at the Yola Place I guess it discouraged me in > finding the definate townland there. The most I have gotten has been > through Cheshire family History Library and the sources they have and > someone named vanessa Dixon who has been a godsend in finding a very > important ancestor named Andrew Spence. > > We have been told that they came from Wexfiord but it has been difficult > to pin them down there. So, after 37 yrs I,m kind of disappointed in the > lack of material in Ireland that is available unlee one knows the Townland > they came from. However Bargy somehow seems to hold a key???? Just > thought I,d let you know my thought. So glad that you have unearthed some > of your heritage! > cheers, [email protected] > > Tracy Keenan Lloyd <[email protected]> wrote: > Viola, > > I too would like to encourage you. Just give it a break for awhile. I > searched for 8 years for a lost branch of my family stemming from Wexford. > I > found them in Alberta, Canada last June and visited them right away. My > elders had never known a cousin until I found them. I too thought nobody > else cared. It's just that not everybody has the passion and > resourcefulness > we do. > > In one month 19 of those Canadian descendants will be coming to the States > to meet the rest of their family here. It'll be the first family reunion > we've ever had. Finding them has tied together the ends of time for me and > given us all new family. Nobody will know the years of frustration, money, > obsessive nights at the computer, time and brick walls we go through. Just > take a breather and come back to it when it's fun again. One day one brick > in that wall will crumble and a flood of answers will pour out. Somebody > will thank you one day for all you've done and know that they weren't > alone > in caring about the family history. > > Tracy > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Thomas Sutton > Sent: Monday, July 02, 2007 7:01 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [IRL-WEXFORD] Going Bonkers > > Viola; > Couldn't help but comment on your remark about closing up shop.I'm 70 and > been going through papers and pictures and trash for about 40 of those > years. I am on so many lists I expect to be investigated by the govt.. > People like us justy have to do it. There will always be some one else who > wants to take up the search when we are gone. Someone else will turn 50 or > 60 someday and suddenly want to know where they came from. Believe me all > the work wont be for nothing. Without family historians like all of us, > nobody would ever be able to tell the generations coming up where they > were > from or who their ancestors were. > Keep pluggin away. > Thom Sutton > > VIOLA HOAR wrote: > Hi mary, > you are right. I think I,m going to knock off doing Genealogy. It,s > getting > to be really too much. and when you think that ALL the years, money, > time,work, sleepless nights from sorting out alot if this STUFF and > accumulating Volumes and papers enough to fill an archive AND MAYBE > somebody > in the family will even care about all that stuff is enough to make you > CLOSE UP SHOP!. > Regards, Viola > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > >

WROTE and what good advice it is > > What was the name of the area you know as county Wexford before it became > Co. Wexford....you might want to learn when that county was formed and if > the records could be under another name. > > Then there are some folks that were so poor that there are just no > records > of them. Sometimes one has to accept the fact that there are no > documentation on our ancestors.... All or our ancestors did not leave a > trail for us to follow or to find. It was not uncommon for people to > change > their name or to be known by another name. The spelling in records may > have > also been changed especially if one could not read or Wright. > > We do family research as it fills a need within us to know more about our > ancestors. We do it for ourselves. Others may or may not appreciate our > efforts and some in our family may see us as wasting our time. If we > recognize that we do it for ourselves then we will not be disappointed > when > others fail to appreciate our efforts. > > you have gotten a lot of good advise. My best advise is to strike off in > another direction and to do that for yourself and not for recognition of > others. Work at a pace that suits you and not at a pace that suits > others. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "VIOLA HOAR" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2007 3:01 PM > Subject: Re: [IRL-WEXFORD] Going Bonkers > > >> Hi Tracy, >> What a nice letter!. \you are a super person!.I know,,,,, >> maybe I,m just going through a phase right now. I think I am frustrated >> because when my husband was alive i tild him that one day I would find >> out >> where in Ireland his people came from and even though I had been to >> Ireland and found nothing at the Yola Place I guess it discouraged me in >> finding the definate townland there. The most I have gotten has been >> through Cheshire family History Library and the sources they have and >> someone named vanessa Dixon who has been a godsend in finding a very >> important ancestor named Andrew Spence. >> >> We have been told that they came from Wexfiord but it has been difficult >> to pin them down there. So, after 37 yrs I,m kind of disappointed in the >> lack of material in Ireland that is available unlee one knows the >> Townland >> they came from. However Bargy somehow seems to hold a key???? Just >> thought I,d let you know my thought. So glad that you have unearthed some >> of your heritage! >> cheers, [email protected] >> >> Tracy Keenan Lloyd <[email protected]> wrote: >> Viola, >> >> I too would like to encourage you. Just give it a break for awhile. I >> searched for 8 years for a lost branch of my family stemming from >> Wexford. >> I >> found them in Alberta, Canada last June and visited them right away. My >> elders had never known a cousin until I found them. I too thought nobody >> else cared. It's just that not everybody has the passion and >> resourcefulness >> we do. >> >> In one month 19 of those Canadian descendants will be coming to the >> States >> to meet the rest of their family here. It'll be the first family reunion >> we've ever had. Finding them has tied together the ends of time for me >> and >> given us all new family. Nobody will know the years of frustration, >> money, >> obsessive nights at the computer, time and brick walls we go through. >> Just >> take a breather and come back to it when it's fun again. One day one >> brick >> in that wall will crumble and a flood of answers will pour out. Somebody >> will thank you one day for all you've done and know that they weren't >> alone >> in caring about the family history. >> >> Tracy >> >> >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [email protected] >> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Thomas Sutton >> Sent: Monday, July 02, 2007 7:01 PM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: [IRL-WEXFORD] Going Bonkers >> >> Viola; >> Couldn't help but comment on your remark about closing up shop.I'm 70 and >> been going through papers and pictures and trash for about 40 of those >> years. I am on so many lists I expect to be investigated by the govt.. >> People like us justy have to do it. There will always be some one else >> who >> wants to take up the search when we are gone. Someone else will turn 50 >> or >> 60 someday and suddenly want to know where they came from. Believe me all >> the work wont be for nothing. Without family historians like all of us, >> nobody would ever be able to tell the generations coming up where they >> were >> from or who their ancestors were. >> Keep pluggin away. >> Thom Sutton >> >> VIOLA HOAR wrote: >> Hi mary, >> you are right. I think I,m going to knock off doing Genealogy. It,s >> getting >> to be really too much. and when you think that ALL the years, money, >> time,work, sleepless nights from sorting out alot if this STUFF and >> accumulating Volumes and papers enough to fill an archive AND MAYBE >> somebody >> in the family will even care about all that stuff is enough to make you >> CLOSE UP SHOP!. >> Regards, Viola >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> >> > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >