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From: austin fadden <>
Subject: Re: [NY-TROY-IRISH-GENSOC] Irish success story
Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2007 11:03:21 -0700 (PDT)
In-Reply-To: <002101c80b57$9e8cd870$6401a8c0@Rebecca>


I have found out the hard way that assuming ancestors stayed in one place can be a stumbling block in research. Never thought I would be finding a girl born in Canada living in New Mexico in 1900, but I did.

Rebecca Rector <> wrote: 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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