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From: "Mary O' Dowd" <>
Subject: Re: [Irish-American] O'BRIEN / Ireland
Date: Tue, 04 Oct 2005 19:06:54 +0000
In-Reply-To: <20051002174014.42652.qmail@web51903.mail.yahoo.com>


Dear Kathleen , I came across your O'Brien/ Ireland ,as I read it down
along ,you mention Killnalappa, Dunmore, I will help you in any way I can ,
I live in ireland Mary


>From: MK Douglas <>
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>Subject: Re: [Irish-American] O'BRIEN / Ireland
>Date: Sun, 2 Oct 2005 10:40:14 -0700 (PDT)
>
>Dennis--I can only say exhaust everything you can before she goes. Have
>you looked in Marriage/Baptismal records for the area in Phil where they
>lived? have you checked the cememteries where the Irish were likely buried?
>have you checked as many ship records as you possibly can? does anyone
>have any old bible--I know the Irish weren't the best with this, but I have
>found some little snippets.
>
>This is certainly of interest to me because I was once in the same
>circumstances. I studied in Dublin back in 1971. My parents came over at
>the end to "make sure I returned home." WE made the grand tour of the
>ancestral counties. My father, whose mother was born in Ballina, Mayo,
>even visited the town, the chruch, the cemetery. Despite help from the
>sexton, Dad was too lacking in confidence to embrace the records as the
>correct ones--they were and now there are cousins who welcome us with open
>arms.
>
>Now for the really frustrating story. As with many largel, old Irish
>families, even I had occassion to attend funerals in the old plots. A mere
>2 years ago, I visited the cemetery for the first time in many years. For
>the first time, I really read the ancient tombstones of my ggrandparents.
>While we knew they were from Galway, we did not know that they were from
>the Townland of Kilnalappa in the parish of Dunmore. Had I had that
>information, I could have done the research then. Now, I will probably
>have to pay someone to do it. How we all missed this information, I have
>no idea. It was not due to lack of interest.
>
>Kathleen
>
>
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