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Please if anyone reading this notice ( or Plea) that may know any surviving Mawhinney or Galloway names from the areas of Keady, parish of Lisnagill, or any surrounding areas please please contact me. I have a fabulous family tree for you all and who know you might even be able to help fill in a few gaps of missing rellies.  Please contact me either here or on (*).  Thank you so much.

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Hi everyone, been away on a long trip. Visited Alaska, Korea, Russia, and many parts of China. Have seen some wonderful sights and also a few sad ones.  Big eye opener to 3rd world countries.!
I came back to find an email from a lady who is working for the B.B.C. in Belfast and she writes

"Hi Valerie,
I'm developing a 3 part series on the Floral Hall for BBC Northern Ireland set in the 1930s/40s , the 1950s and the 1960s. We hope to include interviews with people from all three eras. I've spoken to a man who remembers sitting on the girders of the floral Hall as it was being built in 1935.  And women who danced there during the war. I've had an incredible response and it seems the place your father built occupies a warm place in people's hearts.   I'm really short on photos of the Floral Hall, both inside and outside from the era we're covering. Do you or your extended family  have any photos you'd be willing to share? I'm also looking for archive material like playbills, tickets, memorabilia relating to the Floral.


Any help you can give would be greatly appreciated.


All the best, Andrea."

So, if any of you out there would have any information, old tickets, pictures of the outside or inside of the Hall, or anything to do with it, can you please contact me urgently and I will put you in touch with Andrea directly.
Talk to your elder relations, bet some of them have tales to tell or have the odd memorabilia stashed away some place in an auld box just waiting to be found:)
Do hope you can help us.
Val.

                  To be or not to be - this is the question
Is there any bright, person out there who loves Irish history who might be able to tell me if by any chance  if
the Andrew Taggart mentioned here, is connected to any of the Andrew Taggart's  mentioned in this attachment.
1.  ANDREW1 TAGGART was born in Donegore, Antrim, and died March 11, 1886 in TamneyBreak. [sic. Tawnybrack] Co. Antrim. He married MARY SHANNON – record not yet found.
   
Children of ANDREW TAGGART and MARY SHANNON , baptized 1st Donegore Pres Ch., are:
2.   i.   WILLIAM TAGGART, b. September 20, 1821, Ballynoe. Co. Antrim
    ii.   ROBERT TAGGART,   b. November 12, 1824, Hungry Hall, Co. Antrim.;
            m. JANE MCBRIDE, March 03, 1847; b. Hungry Hall..
                 iii.    ANDREW TAGGART,  b. August 10, 1827,   Drumagargan [sic. Drumagorgan];
   iv.     JOSEPH2 TAGGART,    b. January 08, 1833,   Donegore. Co. Antrim Northern Ireland..
   v.   MARY TAGGART,      b. December 26, 1835, Donegore. Co. Antrim.

This is just a shot in the dark. Grasping at straws, you all know how it is.
Trying to find the name of the parents of one Robert Jamres Taggart who was married to Sarah McCormack and lived in glen Gottage. Legoneil. Belfast in and around the 1940's to 50's.

I have studied these two Galloway families until  my eyes are now crossed!  Can anyone please help me find a connection between the two family of Galloway's. Fresh eyes just might do the job.
If anyone has any information which I can add to either family that also would be brilliant. Dare I ask for pictures ? Ok that would be asking way too much I agree.