My Family Tree discoveries.
In normal times we are constantly in touch since nearly 4 years ago, that is all, because none of us in Ireland and England had previously thought to look into history elsewhere. I was on Ancestry looking at the DNA section, having had mine recorded, and the list showed some Walshes were my second cousins and also third and fourth! Walsh is a name like Smith, lots of them. Then I received a message from them which connected my family tree to theirs - Irish-Americans.. She asked if I had a Walsh parent born in...(yes, my mother) and gave the address of formerly my grandparents farm in Ireland. Their grandfather was the eldest brother of my grandfather and he had emigrated to the USA when only 18, becoming the patriarch of this whole 'tribe'. My remaining two aunts in Ireland had forgotten this piece of history! The American cousin Tom had flown in and traced my uncle in 2000.
The smaller clan in Canada, I was informed of nine years ago, on my father's side. The shock part was, the person who emailed me (a professional genealogist related to me) had made the discovery that a greatgrandfather of mine had been a bigamist whose first wife and family, in Dublin,were deserted by him, believed he had died, but he changed his name to re-marry and settle in Manitoba. His new 'tribe' were even more shocked than I was, as he had kept his secret to the grave..
Anyway that is enough about ancestry, time to get moving.
Hugs from Trixie and me to everyone.