well a lot of people do. I have spent enough time in genealogy forums to know that. And that is why the destruction of the National Archives in 1916 was such a tragedy. A thousand years of history, gone.
My Bernard Tierney is much further back than most Irish people have been able to trace their family history back, primarily because he lived in Scotland, which had a census and did not lose ts history to sectarian violence. Bt even at that it took at least three family members considerable effort to flesh the story out. For instance, mother's grandfather on her father's side apparently got off a boat that came down the St Lawrence (so says family folklore) sometime before her father's birth. We don't have a good date. Lacking that date we can't even find a record of him as a passenger, assuming he even would appear there if he was in steerage, There is no telling. And without *some* idea where he got on that boat, go try to trace an Irishman named William Moore, from somewhere in Ireland. Go ahead, try it :) Of course we are all post-moderns who don't care about our family history, right? Let me tell you, there are times when I channel Bernard and generations of Bernards. Roots are good. On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 9:37 PM, Justin Scott <[email protected]> wrote: > >> We're not sure whether my mother's family (Murray) >> is Irish or Scottish, but we assume based on family >> traditions that they came from Ireland. > > My family doesn't have much doubt where we eventually trace back to. > > -Justin Scott > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:292102 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
