What Country is your research ?

[LeighJenkins]

Thanks - I was wondering why the messaging wouldn't work for me.

[cheecky face]

Hi all at RootsChat,

My research at the moment is in Ireland, Waterford to be precise.  Oh how I envy anyone searching England !!!.

There are a lot of lookup offers for England but I have not seen any for the Waterford area.  I know all my ancestors lived there and they must be buried there also.  As a lot of the records were destroyed I think the only way I am going to find out anything is to search all the graveyards in Waterford.  As there is no way I can get there I'm stumped.

Jan 

[marcie dean]

Hi cheekyface,
mine also, have just been talking to my mum about possibly going to Ireland next year to do some research and to look around.  But she says that it depends on how she  is feeling at the time, no spring chicken anymore, she is 75 and not feeling so good.

Or there is the Isle of Harris, apparently one of our side shoots married into the Campbells/MacDonalds families.

marcie

[indiansign]

Ireland and England, so far

[coombs]

Until I looked at William Stewart's baptism in 1800 in Durham which gave the place of origin of the parents the Scottish connection was just speculation. John Stewart died in 1815 aged 80. The surname was Scottish and a lot of Scots moved to England in the mid 1700s so I just suspected. Then I looked at his sons baptism and it said John was a native of Selkirk, Scotland. Confirmed it.

[kymofONeills]

Hi all at RootsChat,

My research at the moment is in Ireland, Waterford to be precise.  Oh how I envy anyone searching England !!!.

There are a lot of lookup offers for England but I have not seen any for the Waterford area.  I know all my ancestors lived there and they must be buried there also.  As a lot of the records were destroyed I think the only way I am going to find out anything is to search all the graveyards in Waterford.  As there is no way I can get there I'm stumped.

Jan 

[Rabbit B]

Hi all at RootsChat,

My research at the moment is in Ireland, Waterford to be precise.  Oh how I envy anyone searching England !!!.

There are a lot of lookup offers for England but I have not seen any for the Waterford area.  I know all my ancestors lived there and they must be buried there also.  As a lot of the records were destroyed I think the only way I am going to find out anything is to search all the graveyards in Waterford.  As there is no way I can get there I'm stumped.

Jan 

Hi Jan.

Welcome to Rootschat, there is a great deal of help available on the Irish board! Give it a whirl.  I am researching some Irish family too, so I know it isn't easy.

You will get a lot of help over there

Rabbit B 

[kymofONeills]

I feel your pain!!   as I'm looking for the parents and/or relatives of Nicholas and Mary O'Neill, b.1782 in Taghmon, County Wexford, Ireland. Their children were Alexander, Ellen, James, Anastasia, John, Nicholas, Martin and Mary. Nicholas also had a sister named Anastasia, married to Stephen Murphy and numerous children whose names included Moses, Mary, Anastasia, Margaret, Adam, Denis etc..   Alexander was also married to a Catherine,  with three boys, Patrick, Richard and Peter.  They lived close to the Co.s Waterford and Kilkenny but in Co. Wexford which leads  me to think they probably had family in the other two counties as well.   I would  think they just spread out a bit to blend in.... Oh, and they might have dropped the 'O' while in Ireland, but once the ship arrived in America, on July 23, 1841, "arrival day" back came the 'O'.  The ship's manifest shows no 'O'.. on their name, Also... this entire group came over together.   Amazing!!! 

[nfp20]

Could have ticked all the options but the ones I'm concentrating on at the moment are the english welsh and india who came to the uk.