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Subject: Re: Personal ties to family lost
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 20:49:44 -0500
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Good questions, Rick. I would like yo know the answers to those.
Bill Karr in Peoria, IL., USA
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From: Richard Shea <>
Date: Wednesday, October 11, 2006 0:48
Subject: Personal ties to family lost
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> I would be curious to ask the few genealogically-minded in
> Ireland if they have noticed this loss of touch with thier
> American cousins by thier Irish ancestors? My family says
> we were all from Cork although I believe it was because it was
> where they left from not what county they were from but some
> could be and I haven't found them yet. Even the ones who I
> have found a given names for Walsh/Welch haven't seemed to stay
> in touch with thier relatives in the same city.
> The other question I would have for the Irish
> genealogist is what was the size of families in Ireland in the
> early-mid 1800s? In America 6-18 children were not unusual
> but was it the same in Ireland? Obviously there were many
> factors involved such as health, environment and threats to life
> and limb from neighbors; even if many American then didn't think
> of the Natives as neighbors. One great-grandmother of mine
> in MA had 26 children, 3 husbands and lived to over 100 but in
> the 1600s twins didn't survive very often, so only 7 children
> lived to adulthood.
> Can I get some ideas from those who lived,
> research or have researched in Ireland. I've been there
> twice but my wife wouldn't let me do genealogy back then.
> Rick Shea
>
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