Thanks Ted I Won't give up. It's my hobby now. Judy C On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 8:17 PM, Ted Duke <teduke@embarqmail.com> wrote: > Judy, > > Don't give up. I was trying to find out when my wife's gggm came to NYC > since I knew she was there in 1850 with her husband and kids. Never have > found the husband's arrival. Too many John Kelly's. I finally found > her through two of her children she arrived with. She was listed as > Mrs. Kelly. The kids didn't come up but a Mrs. Kelly did and the kids > were there listed with her. > > Ted > > judy christopher wrote: > > Hi Kathleen, Well it's a long story. I found my Grandfather Mueller > > from Speyer RheinlandPfalz in Germans to America in the NYC Library. I > > found Gr-Grandfather Haverbeck from Hanover Stadt Hanover Preussa in the > > Castle Garden web site he arrived on Nov. 9 1878 in the Port of New York. > > Then I found the Haverbeck Family listed in the Pilot on > familysearch.org. > > The Germans kept great records I went to Speyer Germany and to the > Archives > > there and confirmed my Mueller family bacl tp 1686.. I hope to go to > > Hanover to do the same for the Haverbeck family. > > One the Irish side came the stonewalls. I found my Grandfather O'brien > > through the Limerick Archives (unfortunately now closed) I found > > Gr-GrandMother Fox through a search on the internet of the area of the > > Kilmallock Union county Limerick. There were pictures of the area and a > > name that was familiar. I wrote to the webmaster and he forwarded my > e-mail > > to the person who put up the pictures. This person turned out to be a > 3rd > > cousin. I went to Ireland and met this family. It was my family. > > About the Christophers (my husband's fathers' family) I found them > through > > the message boards on Genforum.com. 2 people answered my query re: > William > > Christopher. There is now a DNA project for this family in progress. We > > have located about 25/35 descendents of this William. > > The Mitchells are still a stonewall. I know they came from Galway from > the > > writings on the gravestones in Kingston Ulster County NY. I have a good > > history of this side of the family in the states. But where in Galway did > > they come from and how did they get to the US?? Sometimes I think they > > walked on water. > > Borch/Barscz is a work in progress. I have only found them in the US Fed > > Census from 1900 through 1930. This family settled in Yonkers, > Westchester > > County NY. Georg Borch/Barscz arrived in the us in 1888 along with his > wife > > Barbara and child Anna age 2. That's all I know of this family so far. > > It has taken me 11 years with lots of research and footwork to find all > that > > I have to date and I am still working. > > It just takes perserverence and a lot of setbacks to keep going. > > Good luck and I hope you fine your heritage. > > > ====NY-Irish Mailing List==== > Don't forget to check out the NY-Irish mailing list website. Also, > check/add your NY-Irish surnames on the Surname Registry: > http://www.connorsgenealogy.com/NYIrishList/ > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > NY-IRISH-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > -- Judy Christopher