Originally Posted by OB
Welcome from NY, would love to see your country some day. Having been searching on Ancestry. com to try and find out when my great grandfather came from Ireland. We can find him here when he served in the army in the civil war, but can't find out he came here.
Thanks..what a great welcome :-) I got an email recently from Ancestry.com..they have a few new Irish records to search -Catholic Parish records and Irish BMD as well as another one I cant remember-I expect you got that too
http://www.ancestry.co.uk/ireland its really frustrating when the research stops and you feel like you've hit a brick wall.