Katie,
Can I say thank you. 3 or 4 other folk on the board have also e-mailed me privately to express similar sentiments. I am touched. All I would say is that when I see a query that I think contains issues of wider interest to other members of this board, I try to answer in a way that will help them as well as the person who made the original enquiry. So, for example, with the Morrison enquiry, the underlying issue was where did my ancestors come from and when and how did they arrive in Ireland? I doubt we will ever answer that specific enquiry fully, but there are sources that suggest some probable answers. I am not a genealogical expert. I am a retired civil servant with a background in gathering and analyzing information. I do genealogy for fun to keep my brain active. I live near Belfast and do some research for specific families but I haven’t done any academic genealogical research. However I have been very lucky to have attended dozens of lectures by PRONI experts and folk like Dr William Roulston (whose book on Researching Scots-Irish ancestors no serious researcher in Tyrone should be without). I have had the privilege of working with him on various little projects and have been able to pick his brains from time to time. I also rely heavily on various academic books on Ulster in the 1600s and 1700s (which I usually refer to in any response I give). Robinson’s Plantation of Ulster is one example. Many regular themes come up in posts on this board about how our ancestors lived, what their lives were like, what they ate, what they wore, why they came to Ireland (obviously not all are Plantation families but a huge proportion of Tyrone families are), where they came from, why they left and so on. If your ancestor arrived in Ireland in the 1600s it will be rare to answer that definitively – the records just don’t exist - but there are many sources that give huge amounts of general information which I think folk on this board might find interesting. So I feed it in, where I think appropriate. Hope it works. Elwyn On Sat, 13 Jun 2020 at 18:02, Katie Green via CoTyroneList < cotyronelist@cotyroneireland.com> wrote: > I’d like to add my thanks for this very informative lesson. > > Katie Green in Plain, WI, USA > _______________________________________________ > CoTyroneList Mailing List > Mailing List Email Address: CoTyroneList@cotyroneireland.com > Change Your Preferences: > http://cotyroneireland.com/mailman/listinfo/cotyronelist_cotyroneireland.com > Mailing List Archive: https://goo.gl/mQCKrY > _______________________________________________ CoTyroneList Mailing List Mailing List Email Address: CoTyroneList@cotyroneireland.com Change Your Preferences: http://cotyroneireland.com/mailman/listinfo/cotyronelist_cotyroneireland.com Mailing List Archive: https://goo.gl/mQCKrY
