Sandy - THANKS SOOOOOOOOOO MUCH for the accolades but much more for your very detailed comments on how/why patience and persistence are the BEST virtues in finding your ancestors!!
Far too many people fall prey to the Ancestry.com advertisements which infer you can find everything in a few minutes with one visit to the internet. I only hope your family and descendants appreciate your hard work and results in the years ahead. May you have continued successes AND a Very Merry Christmas to You and Yours, Jim McKane, Webmaster On Tue, Dec 10, 2019 at 6:50 AM J/S Grace via CoTyroneList < [email protected]> wrote: > Chiming in about how CoTyroneIreland has been an integral part of our > genealogy research and to express my appreciation for everyone who has made > a contribution on the site. > > > 1.Information sharing. In the last four years we've been able to piece > together previously unknown (to each other) branches of our Boak family > tree. Through this site, were also able to share research results with > other users, furthering the information held by each of us and resulting in > many useful offline discussions on specific topics to our respective > families. > > > 2.Finding cousins! CoTyroneIreland helped us discover and connect with > several distant cousins and have now been able to meet some of them > starting with a family reunion in 2018 followed by a cousins' trip in > October. > > > 3.Trip planning. Older posts to this site had useful suggestions for how > to plan a successful trip to Northern Ireland / Co Tyrone and more. We used > that information when we planned our cousins' visit to Northern Ireland. > From car rental tips to preparing for and doing prep research for our visit > to PRONI. > > > 4.Networking. Made contact with Boyd Gray after reading one of his > submissions to CoTyroneIreland. He later paved the way for a delightful > visit and tour of the farmstead formerlyheld by my 4G-Grandfather, Robert > Boak, b. circa 1740. He also informed us about the Monreagh Family History > Festival which we then added to our itinerary, made a few contacts, and > havestarted new conversations. Boyd writes about our October homestead and > cemetery visit on his West Ulster Genealogy Services Facebook site: > > > https://www.facebook.com/pg/westulstergenealogy/photos/?tab=album&album_id=10156164260667303&ref=page_internal > > > It took several years of patient (and sometimes frustrating) research to > get to the point we're at today, including use of two different DNA testing > sites and other genealogy resources, to further our gathering of pieces of > the family tree puzzle. CoTyroneIreland has been integral to it all. And > our research is never done. We're currently in the process of verifying the > family of Robert Boak's spouse, a McCormick from the Strabane area. And > working to piece together the family information for the brothers of Robert > Boak (resided in Ardstraw, Ballylaw, and Leckpatrick) and Robert's cousins > who married into the Gordon family. We're combing through posts here and > elsewhere to help put the puzzle together. > > > I encourage everyone to donate something to this site: research results, > old photos, transcriptions, and of course funds to help grow and expand > what this site has to offer. Each bit added will help someone piece > together their genealogy puzzle. Jim McKane - look for my next monetary > donation to CoTyroneIreland coming today. > > > Cheers! > > --Sandy > > _______________________________________________ > CoTyroneList Mailing List > Mailing List Email Address: [email protected] > Change Your Preferences: > http://cotyroneireland.com/mailman/listinfo/cotyronelist_cotyroneireland.com > Mailing List Archive: https://goo.gl/mQCKrY >
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