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Research in Other Countries => United States of America => Topic started by: clairef on Wednesday 01 March 17 11:34 GMT (UK)
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Hi all,
I am trying to trace some distant relations who may still be alive and living in the USA.
(*) Gallagher (may have been born in new York), his wife
(*) and as of 1960 they had a daughter called
(*) (who was possibly born in the 1950s)
This (*)Gallagher would have been a 2nd cousin of my grandfather Michael Gallagher from Ireland and he wrote him a letter in 1960. unfortunately there was no address attached to the letter, so I am at a bit of a loss as to how to progress further.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated :-)
Claire
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Hi
Welcome to RootsChat
Sadly that is not enough information to go on - Gallagher is quite a common name. RootsChat has a no living person policy - we cannot name living people - you will need to remove the name of the daughter, hopefully she is still living.
Sandra
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Since you don't have much information and a common name is involved, I think your best option may be to try to find relevant information about the person who emigrated to the US. If you can, get the person's date of birth in Ireland, parents'/siblings' names, entries on Irish census, marriage, etc.
If you can find that person on a passenger list to the US, it may show where they were going to and who they were going to join. There are various websites that have passenger lists, including free ones at www.familysearch.org and http://www.libertyellisfoundation.org/passenger.
After that, you may be able to find the family on the US census. 1940 is the most recent one available. You can find them on www.familysearch.org. New York does not have recent birth records available, but it may be possible to work around that. You may be able to find living people through death records of relatives, obituaries, city directories, etc.
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Ah I understand regarding the no living person policy. Ill go through the 1940's census to see if I can get any information there. thanks all for the advice :-)