I wanted to share with the list an incredible experience I have had. I have been trying for many years to piece together my mother's family with very little information on family from Ireland. I recently connected with an elderly woman who was the wife of my mother's much younger cousin. He was stationed in Japan during the Korean War and brought home a Japanese War Bride. Funny at 80 her English was still not very good. She told me that her husband was now dead and her son was teaching in Kuro, Japan. He contacted me and said he would be in Toronto this past weekend and that we should meet. He brought with him a letter that was written by my mother in 1979 (three years before she died). The letter was to his father, replying to a request for family information. His father was a prisoner of war during WWI. He came home in very bad health and died 10 yrs. later. He left behind a very young family who had little memory of him. This man's father was my mother's favourite uncle and she had lots of stories to tell about him. Apparently this letter was very special to the family and everyone had a copy. In this letter that my mother wrote, was a complete history of everyone in the family as well as birth and death dates she remembered and when they emigrated. She also talked about the personalities of all her uncles, aunts and as well as her grandparents and their siblings. I gather my mother and her parents were the first to emigrate. As the relatives started to come over to Canada, they would spend a year with them until they found work and a could send for their families. What is incredible is that she wrote this 16 page epic and did not copy it. Now all these years later; I receive the letter from Japan! While researching her family I often thought "why didn't I ask her about her family"? Well now she has managed to answer those questions all these years later. It was a wonderful gift! So now I must expand my research to from Belfast to Lisburn. Is Lisburn Parish part of Antrim or Down? Kind Regards, Maureen