Connection Story - Cleveland & Silvermines, County Tipperary.
When: Thursday, 14 June, 2018Main Photo: the family home in Boherbee in the 1830s with Great Uncles Michael and Ned standing at the gate
Ireland XO
Connection Story - Baltimore and Silvermines, Co.Tipperary
When: Wednesday, 21 February, 2018John Tobin and Catherine Hayes married about 1858 and had at least four children. Like so many families at that time, the future of these children was one lived-out in the USA. Bridget M.
Ireland XO
Standing on the spot her ancestors were married - 156 years to the day later
When: Friday, 3 November, 2017Picture: Traditional Farmers Cottage, Portsalon, Fanad (Mid-late 1800s). On right, Deborah Davies in Donegal in 2015
Clondavaddog (Donegal)
Barry and Cook families remembered in County Limerick
When: Monday, 25 September, 2017In the Autumn of 2012, I was in contact with Mary O'Grady through the Ireland XO website and she connected me with Martin Cleary, a member of the Knockainey Community Council, who was able to introduced me to Thomas F. Cooke, my closest cousin in Ireland.
Knockainey (Limerick)
Connection Story - Scotland and Sligo
When: Wednesday, 15 February, 2017In December 2015 I registered and posted what information I had in my search for my maternal relatives Owen and Catherine Coleman. Within this post I included details of my Gt.
Ballymote (Sligo)
Connection Story - New Zealand and Annaghdown
When: Tuesday, 7 February, 2017Pictured above: Heather with her daughter Linda and Ireland Reaching Out Volunteer, Paul Grainey Fiona Fitzsimons in conversation with Heather Maloney.
Annaghdown (Galway)
Visiting Old Rahoon
When: Wednesday, 7 December, 2016Throughout the early part of 2016 Julie DeFrancesco and her family eagerly planned a trip to Ireland. As the family historian and armed with family papers and documents she hoped to visit the parishes of her ancestors, the Delaneys from Laois and the Maloys from Galway.
Rahoon (Galway)
A Ballinakill Homecoming
When: Wednesday, 2 November, 2016How did your visit to Ireland come about?
Ballinakill Derrybrien (Galway)
Thank you once again for breaking an 11 year wall for me
When: Tuesday, 30 August, 2016Based on the surname and family stories, Sally always believed that John and Ellen were probably from Galway but most of the information she had was from the UK side of the family history.
Galway
I think this is one of those "needle in a haystack" searches
When: Tuesday, 5 July, 2016Kathleen's great-grandfather Thomas Hynes married Caroline Davis in Mallow on 30th April 1864. The marriage certificate listed his father as 'William Hynes', and hers as 'John Davis'.
Mallow (Cork)