This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: quinn, hamilton, logan, riley, o'leary Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/lRB.2ACE/488 Message Board Post: I am related to several families that came from Ireland to North Hempstead Township during the Great Migration following the potato blight. I have Quinn, Hamilton, Logan, Riley, and O'Leary family connections. All that it says on the census and all that my family can tell me is that they came from "Ireland". Ireland is a big place-- does anyone know what part of Ireland these families might have come from?