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Hello.

I had some really good luck getting my DNA done. First thing I found was a very close relative that turned out to be a first cousin. Turns out our mothers were sisters and the lifelong mystery of who was her father was solved. That opened up a big part of my mother's family tree which was nice.

On my father's side ... the man on his mother's birth certificate had actually been dead 10 years before her birth. Her real father was another complete mystery. Nothing really popped out on the DNA match screen the way it had on my mother's side.

My 2nd cousin ... the son of my my father's sister's daughter ... took the same type ancestry DNA test. I see him top of the list as a match. I use him to compare to potential matches that I have.

Here's my question. I noticed at a certain point if you go back he will not show up as co-related to people who are related on my father's side. I believe it takes going back 7 generations and then this cousin does not show up in my thru-lines.

I found what a bunch of clues that seem to point to an individual on the DNA match screen being a relative of the man who fathered my grandmother. But ... my cousin does not show as DNA-related to this person. I count the generations between this person and the potential parent and it's 4 (after him the potential parent is the 4th).

I'm wondering if the 4 generations plus the fact that i'm comparing to my father's sister's grandchild would have a water-down effect? Making it so he might not show up as co-related.

Sorry for explaining it so bad.

Any help greatly appreciated!

Thanks.

Hello

I was wondering if someone could help decipher an Aberdeenshire location name from the attached 1694 document snip. It says Alexander Joss in _____ ?

Record is for Monquhitter...

Thanks a lot.

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Hello, originally I posted the same signature interested in what the surname was... it turns out it's a variation of McINERNEY/McENERNEY. Anyhow , I had assumed the first name was Alice and that there was a misplaced blob of ink toward the end.

Then I saw a later wedding with this same woman as a witness. The blob was there in her own hand-writing...

I was wondering if anyone could help decipher this first name. Thanks in advance.

Attached: clip with her full name from 1852 doc that mentions her

Hello. Attached is a baptism entry from 1841 in Tullylish. It is for a Samuel born to a John McCann.

I am trying to decipher the mother Mary's last name that appears to be a_ _ esdale or similar, maybe?

Thanks in advance to anyone who has the time to help.

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Greetings.

Thanks in advance for any help looking into this.

I have been stuck for awhile trying to figure out anything about my great grandfather Edward Conlon. I know through documents that he was a weaver and that he had children in the early 1840's in Tullylish.

I never could find his wife's name or his parents. I have written to several dna relatives and their Conlon family trees all end in Edward Conlon no wife listed, no parents.

Edward's son (my grandfather) Arthur was born 1841. Arthur also had a brother named Bernard.

Arthur Conlon married Sarah Burns Christmas day 1877. Document here:
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/marriage_returns/marriages_1877/11146/8082672.pdf

Fathers: Edward Conlon -weaver and Hugh Burns -weaver

That's pretty much all the info I have seen anywhere about Edward Conlon. He and Hugh Burns were both weavers. I have been unable to find spouses for either of these men.

I could not find a death cert for Edward Conlon that fits. Here is the death cert for Hugh Burns  (I would gladly take any info on him as well!).

Hugh Burns died in 1877 at age 80. His death cert below states his wife was still alive, possibly the Margaret Burns who is the informant.
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/deaths_returns/deaths_1877/020550/7211402.pdf

Arthur Conlon himself died in 1919 at age 78 so was born 1841:
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/deaths_returns/deaths_1919/05146/4418049.pdf

Also, here is the death of Arthur Conlon's brother Bernard in 1900 age 60 at Coose:
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/deaths_returns/deaths_1900/05774/4632201.pdf

There are other Bernard Conlons ... one died in 1908 at age 88 with a nephew Arthur as informant. The older one was also a farmer , farming at Shaneglish who died 1880 age 78 so born 1802.

Death cert for the latter Bernard above:
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/deaths_returns/deaths_1880/06480/4864420.pdf

I was thinking either of those Bernards could be possibly be brother to Edward Conlon.

There was one Edward Conlen who died in Armagh in 1873 at age 62 which would make him born 1811-ish... but the death is in Tullymore not Banbridge and the Edward is listed as a pensioner with no mention of weaving.

Death of above Edward Conlen:
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/deaths_returns/deaths_1873/020690/7259530.pdf


I did spend hours attempting to look through the Tullylish parish records microfilm for births , marriages, deaths that might hold a clue. I saw several Hugh Burn/Byrnes but no Edward Conlan. It's very possible that Edward married/had kids outside of Tullylish and then moved there later. Of course he could be from a lot of places ...I'm currently checking Tandragee.

I was wondering if anyone was related to these Conlon / Burns families...or if anyone had any info to share regarding them. I have many of the documents leading up to Edward Conlon and Hugh Burns but nothing after Arthur, just the fathers names.

Please feel free to chime in. Any comments appreciated.