What I know is my great-grandfather’s (Michael Flynn) mother was Mary McCann (father also named Michael Flynn), according to his death certificate. Michael was born on April 1, 1843, in Co. Mayo, Ireland. He immigrated to Jersey Co., IL, before he was 18 years old. In Jersey Co. IL, he mar. Mary Mahan, also born in Co. Mayo, Ireland. Michael died Jan 23, 1925 in Jersey Co., IL. Michael was a devout Catholic and I know he was baptized in Ireland. I contacted the genealogists at the Co. Mayo Family History Centre and asked them to to search for any info. on Michael Flynn (Sr. & Jr.) and Mary McCann. They could not find any record of Michael Jr.’s baptism or Michael Sr. & Mary McCann’s marriage. They explained that because he was born during the potato famine (1843) that priests were so overwhelmed with all the deaths that occurred (Co. Mayo lost 50 percent of its population to death and immigration during the famine) that a lot of baptisms and marriages never made it into the church books. They did provide a list of parishes in which they found both Flynn & McCann records. I went to the National Archives in Dublin and searched every record in every book from these parishes and could find nothing. Another family name is Talty and I did find a Mary McCann standing up at the marriage of a Talty. However, the Talty family is almost exclusively a Co. Clare family, not Co. Mayo. Thus, I am stuck. Janet Flynn