one thing we need to do is to write down and get onto searchable genealogy sites anything we were told about our own ancestors..where from, where landed, names of anyone, occupations, any stories. that is what people want and need..and often there is no information..but stuff can be pieced together and people often traveled together...like my ancestors from kerry ended up in ne iowa after working on canals..doing their genealogy i found the whole town came from dingle it seems..while next town over came from county monaghan and was very well recorded..i found to research my own ancestors i had to research cahalans, murphys and fitzgeralds, as well as a few sheehans, kavanaughs, kellys...eventually i did brief family trees of most of the irish catholic town..my comaputer died and some might be lost but i will take it b ack to dingle when i go and they can add to their knowledge because what i found was that if you got a child who lived to 1925 the iowa census would give name of mother..so we can go back to ireland with name of father and mother and find out a lot more perhaps...people have emailed me pictures of my great grandmother, information about my ggm who may or may not b4e a bridget quinn...family trees...it is all connected.

anyway, that is what we all need to do. each year the stories that did make it out get fainter and fainter...my family knew nothing at all except incorrcet information about one ggm...had no idea at least two other ggparents were famine immigrants and possibly a fourth...