Hi Anna & Jenn, Wouldn't it be wonderful if you could connect up your adoptees? Glad to see you using the Query Boards as all queries get crossposted to the mailing list... If it would help, you can both send me what you have (dates, places for vitals, peripheral information, etc.) and I will create an "orphans' page" on the website. I suspect given times and circumstances, the list may be bigger than we know... Assume you have both looked over what is on the page for clues: http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~jmbhome/1kirwin.html And, for new subscribers, I offered to post Kirwin family group charts to my website as a service to us all in January - this is an ongoing offer. I credit you as submittor and give you an email link to others can contact you with more information. Rules are simple: 1) No data posted on the living to protect privacy 2) Send data either as a GedCom or in this order in an email: NAME-BIRTHDATE-BIRTHPLACE-DEATHDATE-DEATHPLACE-MARRIAGEDATE-MARRIAGEPLACE-SPOUSE (you can see the family group chart format I use on the webpages) 3) Charts stop where a daughter marries out of the surname I do this to benefit all descendants and I won't sell your information. I offered the same to my DEWHURST list and it has really taken off! We have had several cousin connections created! The success of such an idea all depends upon what you all choose to share. Hope you are all having a productive summer! Jana Black Listowner, KIRWIN-L Jenn Olmstead wrote: > Posted on: KIRWAN Queries > Board URL: http://genconnect.rootsweb.com/genbbs.cgi/surnames/k/i/KIRWAN/queries?read=9 > > Surname: Kerwin, Kirwan > ------------------------- > > Hi, > Your message caught my eye because my great grandmother was Jennie Kerwin > (not sure of the spelling) who was also an orphan, Very Catholic! > And that is pretty much all I know about her family. She was only 15 when > she married my grandmother's father, Matthew Caulfield in Troy NY, 1893ish. > She died in 1935, her death cert was filled out by her husband, stating > that her parents were Mary Slattery and Joseph Kerwin from Waterford, NY. > I have not been able to prove ANY of this. But my grandmother always said > she was an orphan...FOR SURE. > Do you think there is any chance my Jennie Kerwin could be one of your > orphan Kirwan's? > Please let me know. > Sincerely, > Jenn Olmstead