Here Lyn talks about her family history search for her great great grandmother, Margaret Murphy, connecting with local the local IrelandXO volunteer network and visiting ancestral homesteads in County Tipperary.
Caher (Tipperary)
In Ireland, they visited: Tulla, Co Clare; Cree, Co. Offaly; and Dublin. They also met with Margaret, a volunteer with IrelandXO in Birr, who helped them investigate their Colbourn ancestors who had lived in the area in the early 1800s.
Kilcolman (Offaly)
Wayne and his wife Ange, and Patti and her husband Dave, hail from a rural farming community in Huron County, Ontario. Wayne and Patti descend from a long line of farmers. In fact on their father’s side, they are sixth generation Canadians – all farmers.
Ardcarn (Roscommon)
Picture Above: Jeanie, Brad, Matt and Paddy Lewis with Seamus Callaghan and Mary Kury at the O'Connor Homestead in Kilscannell
Ardagh (Limerick)
Last October, Sally Rafferty contacted Ireland Reaching Out to let us know that she was coming to Birr in Count Offaly, along with her father Jim. She asked if there was someone available locally to help them discover more about their Irish place of origin.
Birr (Offaly)
The highlight of our trip to Ireland in September was meeting our distant relatives in Kiltormer! With the help of Ireland Reaching out, Mary McLaughlin, John Joe Conwell and Mary Lynch, we were able to re-co
Kiltormer (Galway)
Picture above: Cousins Anne LeBlanc and Geraldine meet in Kinsale for the first time.
Kinsale (Cork)
Image above: Walking in the footsteps of the Usshers Seeing the Land of the Usshers By Andrea Lister I was recently fortunate enough to travel to Ireland and see the land where on which my ancestors were born.
Loughrea (Galway)
Main Photo: the family home in Boherbee in the 1830s with Great Uncles Michael and Ned standing at the gate
Ireland XO
John Tobin and Catherine Hayes married about 1858 and had at least four children. Like so many families at that time, the future of these children was one lived-out in the USA. Bridget M.
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