Hey there Internet!
Long time, no see. Well, you are about to see a whole lot of me! Yes, indeed. I am participating in a few adventures this year and will use this here blog as my accountability place. The place I come to see my progress.
First up is the Amy Johnson Crow "52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks" challenge. This week the prompt she gives us is Start. Something that prods you to start your genealogy adventure, or someone. I am choosing my 7th great grandfather Mr. Jeremiah Dial. Born around 1730 in or around County Cork in Ireland. He is the very first person I found on my family tree that got me to dive in and start researching. What possessed Mr. Jeremiah Dial to pack up his family and come to the Carolinas in 1768? It's all very fascinating to me. And the hardest thing for me is researching Ireland. They have for shit records. Most things destroyed by the British, so just bare bones records in churches. Also, I find out that when a lot of Irish immigrants boarded ships to come here the people who filled in the ship's manifests would often just put the ship's port of departure as the place all these people came from, whether or not that was true. Not helpful.
Anyhoo, Mr. Jeremiah Dial brought his wife and 6 kids with him, most of the kids being fairly grown people. They added to the family once they were here. This group of Irish people were my very first to start researching and investigating. They fought in the Revolutionary War and I have loads of documentation for the DAR.
If you have any helpful resources for finding Irish records I would love to hear about them. My plan is to try and post something here on Sunday or Monday about this challenge.
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