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From: "jill mcnamee" <>
Subject: Re: [NY-TROY-IRISH-GENSOC] Irish success story
Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2007 09:14:06 -0700
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.....you do researching for clients?! You have to tell me about this!!!! I
may be interested in becoming one!!
Jill McNamee
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From: "Rebecca Rector" <>
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Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2007 9:07 AM
Subject: [NY-TROY-IRISH-GENSOC] Irish success story


>I wanted to share a recent success story. I have been researching several
> Murphy brothers from Troy for a client (they were in the 1880 census). We
> knew that 2 of them became Jesuit Priests. I happened to find a 1908 Troy
> deed that mentioned the brothers - one was in New Orleans, the other in
> Alabama. With that info I found them in the 1910 and 1920 census, as
> Priests. I then sent e-mail to Loyola Univ. in New Orleans (Jesuit
> school)
> and they had information about the twin brothers in their archives! They
> sent me photos, where the brothers were born in Ireland, when they died
> and
> where they were buried (in the South). Pretty cool!
> Rebecca
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