What Irish surnames are you researching? Maybe we're related!
If you know me on r/genealogy, you've seen this post from me before. It usually succeeds in generating conversation, so I'm hoping we'd all like to talk about it here.
So for me:
- Morgan Cremin b.1821 m. Ellen Egar b.1826
They married in 1848 in Co. Kerry and promptly boarded a ship for the U.S. in order to escape the famine. They settled in SE Illinois. It appears Ellen's father's name was Jacobus, which I think is James? Cremin, I have learned, is an agnomen for McCarty, and indeed, my uncle has a lot of McCarty matches at FTDNA. In the U.S., the name morphed into Crimmins.
- George Hazlett b. 1795 m Agnes McKee b. 1799
Family lore says George's family were originally from Scotland, but I haven't confirmed that. His children were born in Co. Monaghan. I found an Agnes McKee born 1799 in Co. Down, which might be my Agnes (she went by Nancy). George and Nancy and their adult children also fled the famine in 1850. George died on the ship, and Nancy and her children settled in Monona, Iowa.
- George Hazlett Jr. b. 1824 m Jane Whittaker b. 1830
In Monona, Iowa the younger George married Jane Whittaker, who had emigrated from Co. Sligo with her aunt and uncles. Her parents and sister had all died in the famine. Her aunt who cared for her was named Ellen Irwin.
- Robert Stunkard b. 1759
He settled in Pennsylvania, and may have been born in Co. Down. It's been suggested to me that the name might have originally been Stankard.
- Samuel Clark b. 1790 m Jane Millar b. 1785
Samuel and Jane were from County Down and they settled in Quebec.
I'm used to Ancestry and they haven't pissed me off, yet, so that is my main database for my trees. I used to have whatever the software was that interacts with Ancestry, but I abandoned it years ago and just use the web interface. I am on Wikitree and Family Search as well, of course.
I also love things about Family Search and when I want to send someone a link to, say, a census page, I find the page there and use that link, since not everyone uses Ancestry. My main complaint, for myself, is that on Family Search I have encountered people with bad data who ignore the good data and if I make a change, they change it back. This is going on on two of my lines and it's so frustrating. On one of the lines the person who keeps making changes is herself Mormon, and rather than fight with her, I've decided to let her have Family Search, so long as she doesn't take down my document explaining why I'm right. So far, so good.
What if that was an AI imitating Prigozhin's voice?
Hi. I'm a U.S. genealogist who's been to many a cemetery. Some cemeteries organize their plots like little towns, naming the "street" that goes by them and giving them numbers on those streets. I suspect 3511 37th street no. is an "address" within the cemetery, intended to help you find the plot.