Hi Karen. If your folks emigrated to Canada from Ireland, you might want to try the records at Gross Ille Point National Park. It was Canada's equivalent to Ellis Island in the US. It was the entry point of a lot of Irish immigrants to Canada, especially during the potatoe famine years. Where in Canada did they settle? A lot of the parish records of the churches in Canada are still intact (no wars, etc.). There are the Drouin Records for Quebec, there are the provincial archives in Nova Scotia, to name a few. If they were protestant, and settled in Montreal, they were likely buried in Mount Royal Cemetary in Montreal. Mount Royal Cemetary has a tremendous genealogy record search system. I've used it myself and discovered/re-affiremed at lot of deaths there. Just a few suggestions. My own "tribe/clan" came from Ulster to US first, then to Canada and my GreatGran came directly from Ireland. It's not hard To find them, you just need to know where to look. Good Luck! Margaret McNutt Canada -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Karen Sent: April-30-10 3:46 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [S-I] Mitchell, Scotch/Irish New York to Michigan How does one pronounce "Taoiseach"? ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, April 30, 2010 10:56 AM Subject: Re: [S-I] Mitchell, Scotch/Irish New York to Michigan > Hi Karen, > > It's good you are trying to learn how your parents got from Armagh to > Canada in 1840. The way you research this is to study the methodology. You > can do this by buying or borrowing books on the topic, attending lectures > on records documenting Canadian immigration from Ulster, downloading > lectures, reading them free on line, googling. A summary is here: > http://www.theshipslist.com/Research/canadarecords.htm > > The first thing you will notice is that Canada didn't begin to keep > records with a few exceptions till 1865. You may then notice your date is > before this. So how long do you want to try to learn about an event that > may well not be documented in any record, anywhere? You can spend 20 or 30 > years doing this, or 50 or more. At the end you could be very grouchy and > none the wiser. There are strategies for locating information -- in family > histories, county histories, etc, etc, etc, etc. I often cite > www.genealogical.com/university.html as a place to go to. It has a chart > that details the possible sources to find information about migration. You > can also improve your analysis skills and learn how to analyze the data > you already have to indentify clues that you have overlooked. This sounds > immensely boring and unexciting, but I only hope that when I get back to > my family history I have overlooked some of the astonishing buried > treasures found in what clients of mine have sent. > > Still, if no one documented the name of the ship in your family, you may > have to channel them from the other side. Even this is risky. I assume, > anyway, if we called back my great aunt, who migrated at the age of 4 with > her family from Scotland in 1893 and who in her later years wrote a letter > documenting what she knew, that she'd give the same ship name as she did > in her letter. Unfortunately, she was wrong. It didn't take long to > discover that no su ch ship as she named existed in 1893 or ever lugged > people from Scotland to the USA. However there was a similar named ship. > Sure enough, I found them on a passenger list for THAT ship. Move back > another hundred years or more -- there are plenty of errors in our holy, > received family histories. Sometimes you gotta work around the family > history <grin>. Or the opinions of deceased ancestors called back from the > grave to the spiritual circle..... > > I'd check Filby and then turn to hunting up oral family history that has > been preserved in collateral lines, if not your own. > > Linda Merle > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Karen" <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Friday, April 30, 2010 8:37:51 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern > Subject: Re: [S-I] Mitchell, Scotch/Irish New York to Michigan > > Mary, how did you learn the ship they cdamne on? I'm trying to larn how my > great great grandparents got from Co. Armagh to Canada in 1840. Many > thanks, > Karen > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Mary Widener" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Thursday, April 29, 2010 9:51 PM > Subject: Re: [S-I] Mitchell, Scotch/Irish New York to Michigan > > > > My Scotch Irish came to Abbeville, S. Carolina in 1767 from Belfast. > Directly to Charleston, S. Carolina, have the ship they came over on and > the > land they were given, Matthew and James SHANKS, Matthew the father, his > wife > died enroute from Belfast and James was only about 4 or 5 years old when > they arrived. James had an uncle who had previously come over, a Robert > WILSON > Mary Widener > > --- On Thu, 4/29/10, Sarah <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > ------------------------------- > 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 > > > ------------------------------- > 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 > > ------------------------------- > 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 > ------------------------------- 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