WOW I have had so many successes it is hard to know where to start :-) Due to the new updated FHL info, after looking since 1999 I was finally able to find out where my 2 x GGP's were born in IRELAND---which has lead me to new discoveries in Dublin due a poster (I forget if he was from this list or the NY Irish list) who volunteered his time to look in Dublin for me and he has found some very exciting potential links. Years ago I accidentally discovered a Civil War Pension document that contained valuable information on my 3 x GGP's that gave me their marriage date, detailed information about their son's death in the Civil War AND the death of my 3 x GGF far away from his home in Matagorda TX. IN doing research in Italy I ran across a GREAT find (this was through a private researcher in Italy, if you have Italian research to do, email me OFF LIST for his contact info). When he researched my 3 x GGF's mother in Agrigento, he ran into a Parish Priest who have the entire line back to 1560...I cannot figure out WHY the Priest had that line unless it was his line as well. I got TONS of great info from that. I made a post one time on my Swedish ancestor who was also a brick wall and a very nice man volunteered to research the family as he had access to Sedish websites and totslly understood them and read Swedish--HE got that line back to the early 1700's in Sweden. I was lucky enough that one nice ancestry.com member emailed me about a book my 3 x GGF and GGM were in that lead me to find my ancestry in my 3 x GGM's line that went back to the Pilgrims and beyond. MUCH of the success I have had has been due to the kindness of other researchers who knew things I did not and also were willing to help....many of these folks remain my "geni buddies" through today, even though the research stopped long ago. It has taken a LONG time to get to some of this info, but every time I find something on what i thought was a stalled line I am tickled pink. I guess the moral of the story is "NEVER GIVE UP" and try to contact other people researching people in your lines...sometimes info you need are not in your pedigree, they are with siblings or cousins etc...so reach out to folks...Some families have passed info down that may help you. Others give freely of their time to help you. The ONLY time I have run into this sense of community was when I was in the Military...Folks in the ancestry community are SO willing to help, if they know you need help...so reach out! While Irish ancestry is really, really tough and I may never get to the bottom of the Irish lines I have, you cannot have it all I guess. Have a great day everyone Joyce On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 2:21 PM, Janis Mundy via <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks you Lisa, I greatly appreciate this link. > > -- Researching Stephenson/Stevenson, Fleury, Heald, Lindelof, Young, Rubino, Cammarota, Mandracchia, Vaiarelli, Mulhern, Johnson, Haight, Erickson, Munson, Northrup, Sears, Camp, Gunn, Allen, Gorham, Plumb, Beard, Rogers, Eliot, Briscoe, Bradley, Mix, Wilmot, Pritchard, Mew, Stone, Sparke, Bayley, Bailey, Redfield, Redfin, Howland, Tilley, Sturgis, Hinckley, Kirk, Norton, Gerard, and many more...

Good for you.  Always happy to hear good news.  I have a minor yay moment.  Thanks to the Mormons (even though I now had to buy the death certificate through the NYC archives), the death date of my grandmother's oldest brother.  His whereabouts were a mystery until now. Barbara Kiersh On Thursday, June 11, 2015 5:54 PM, Joyce Presnall via <[email protected]> wrote: WOW I have had so many successes it is hard to know where to start :-) Due to the new updated FHL info, after looking since 1999 I was finally able to find out where my 2 x GGP's were born in IRELAND---which has lead me to new discoveries in Dublin due a poster (I forget if he was from this list or the NY Irish list) who volunteered his time to look in Dublin for me and he has found some very exciting potential links. Years ago I accidentally discovered a Civil War Pension document that contained valuable information on my 3 x GGP's that gave me their marriage date, detailed information about their son's death in the Civil War AND the death of my 3 x GGF far away from his home in Matagorda TX. IN doing research in Italy I ran across a GREAT find (this was through a private researcher in Italy, if you have Italian research to do, email me OFF LIST for his contact info).  When he researched my 3 x GGF's mother in Agrigento, he ran into a Parish Priest who have the entire line back to 1560...I cannot figure out WHY the Priest had that line unless it was his line as well.  I got TONS of great info from that. I made a post one time on my Swedish ancestor who was also a brick wall and a very nice man volunteered to research the family as he had access to Sedish websites and totslly understood them and read Swedish--HE got that line back to the early 1700's in Sweden. I was lucky enough that one nice ancestry.com member emailed me about a book my 3 x GGF and GGM were in that lead me to find my ancestry in my 3 x GGM's line that went back to the Pilgrims and beyond. MUCH of the success I have had has been due to the kindness of other researchers who knew things I did not and also were willing to help....many of these folks remain my "geni buddies" through today, even though the research stopped long ago. It has taken a LONG time to get to some of this info, but every time I find something on what i thought was a stalled line I am tickled pink. I guess the moral of the story is "NEVER GIVE UP" and try to contact other people researching people in your lines...sometimes info you need are not in your pedigree, they are with siblings or cousins etc...so reach out to folks...Some families have passed info down that may help you. Others give freely of their time to help you. The ONLY time I have run into this sense of community was when I was in the Military...Folks in the ancestry community are SO willing to help, if they know you need help...so reach out! While Irish ancestry is really, really tough and I may never get to the bottom of the Irish lines I have, you cannot have it all I guess. Have a great day everyone Joyce On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 2:21 PM, Janis Mundy via <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks you Lisa, I greatly appreciate this link. > > -- Researching Stephenson/Stevenson, Fleury, Heald, Lindelof, Young, Rubino, Cammarota, Mandracchia, Vaiarelli, Mulhern, Johnson, Haight, Erickson, Munson, Northrup, Sears, Camp, Gunn, Allen, Gorham, Plumb, Beard, Rogers, Eliot, Briscoe, Bradley, Mix, Wilmot, Pritchard, Mew, Stone, Sparke, Bayley, Bailey, Redfield, Redfin, Howland, Tilley, Sturgis, Hinckley, Kirk, Norton, Gerard, and many more... ------------------------------- 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