Hi Jane, You asked: >Need help in tracing him back to Belfast. Any suggestions? Yes, learn some more -- it'll help. Seriously! I don't know what you've already studied, but www.genealogy.com/university.html has several very good courses in migration research. These are aimed at US records but it works for Canadian. The point is there are no emigration records with a few exceptions in Belfast. You must find the homeland from this side -- just like for all the other folk who came to America. There's German Emigration records but of course the port where my Germans left was bombed <grin>. So....it's back to what I learned at this website and a couple expensive books and courses: you gotta get REAL good at using new world records to do what you want. Me, I'd check the Canadian censuses that sometimes give the exact location they left from (except in your case as well as my clients <GRIN>) and local history. I'm no Canadian expert but I have done some research in Ontario and the area I was checking had lots of local history. I found everyone with that surname in Ontario except for my client's ancestor. He died young and left no oral history. Well...there's always DNA <grin>... I did find family with the same surname from Sligo... There's always Ye Olde Irish Surname Study -- discussed in most Irish genealogy classes, whereby you use certain census substitues to map the surname to locales in Ireland and then attempt to find records in those locales to prove or disprove they are your family. If y ou haven't heard of this one, it's a sign you can possibly benefit from getting a background in standard Irish genealogy. In Irish genealogy courses one is often told it is impossible to trace non gentry before the early 1800s. It is not impossible, but you DO have to learn how to do it. You have to start with what all the people who can't know -- what they are learning in those classes and books. I've used it for some personal research (few can aford to pay someone to do this for them). Works...kinda!! Best of luck! Linda Merle ---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: JaneSDJones@aol.com Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2006 14:10:38 EST >Am researching the McClenaghan family--George McClenaghan emgrated from >Belfast to Prescott, Ont., Canada about 1817, married Ann uniknown, had children, >and died there in 1832. He is buried in the Blue Church Cemetery in >Maitland, Can. Need help in tracing him back to Belfast. Any suggestions? >Jane Jones > > ________________________________________________________________ Sent via the WebMail system at mail.fea.net