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Looking for origins of Isabella McCormack born Aug 1839 and emigrated to USA around 1855.  She lived in Upstate New York and married James Burgey or Burghey.

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Friday 25th Jan 2013, 05:48AM

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  • Hi

    Thank you for your message. Do you have any additional information on Isabella? Do you know much about her emigration? The dates, the reason why she left, who she may have travelled with?..etc..Generally more information was given at the port of arrival rather than the port of departure. Her emigration could be a good place to find more information. -And perhaps even find out an exact place of origin.

    If you haven't already - you might try: 

     

    Castlegarden: http://www.castlegarden.org/

    US National Archives/Immigration info: http://www.archives.gov/research/immigration/

     

    The Boston Pilot; From October 1831 through October 1921, the Boston Pilot newspaper printed a ?Missing Friends? column with advertisements from people looking for ?lost? friends and relatives who had emigrated from Ireland to the United States. This extraordinary collection of 40,743 records is available here as a searchable online database, which contains a text record for each ad that appeared in the Pilot. http://infowanted.bc.edu/

    Some sites that might be helpful are:

     

    The National Archives of Ireland http://www.nationalarchives.ie/genealogy1/genealogy-records/introduction/

    The National Library of Ireland http://www.nli.ie/en/family-history-introduction.aspx

    The National Archives UK ? genealogy search: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/records/looking-for-person/

    The Public Records Office of Northern Ireland http://www.proni.gov.uk/index/family_history.htm

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    Kind regards,                    

    Genealogy Support 

     

    Thursday 7th Mar 2013, 12:37PM

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