Found a bombshell about my Irish heritage.

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6. Unfortunately, we have no evidence of Mayo...

It was just something that my father said...can't ask him now because he's been dead for 20 years. The information that I found indicated that they had been in Wexford a long time...except for one grgrgrandmother who was from Carlow, which is just next door.

I've been to Kinsale! It's a beautiful town and I had a great time there. It was the spring bank holiday weekend (same weekend as our Memorial Day) and the harbor was full of beautiful sailboats. There was one...

If I ever find SF links, I'll be certain to send them to you. I don't think that my grgrandfather spent a lot of time there before traveling overland to the Chicago area.

I'd love to get a letter from some relative in Ireland. It's not impossible. My surname is the family name, but it's not that uncommon. Likely they'd contact my cousins, and I don't know if they'd pass it along.