Tracing your family tree

[Rois]

I was more concerned by the Draperstown thing to be honest. 

I thought we'd have come from somewhere a bit more interesting than 10 miles from where my parents grew up and 2 miles from where I grew up!  I imagined a family torn apart by famine/civil war somewhere down in Mayo.  I get a road planner from Strabane. 

[Aerlik]

So that must make you either a Moneyneana wummin, a Desertmartin wummin, or a Tobermore wummin.  Hmmm, Roisin from Tobermore....indeed....has a ring to it.  Now where was I ... oh yes, eeny meeny miney mo...

[The Gs Man]

Im related to Alex Ferguson.  Somebody shoot me.

[Orior]

This be a useful site for looking at the country back in the days of... (hoik, spit)... Cromwell ...

http://www.downsurvey.tcd.ie/

And here is evidence of a GAABoard poster defacing one of Cromwell's map

[theticklemister]

call into any library in the north and there are great resources on the computers.

[5 Sams]

call into any library in the north and there are great resources on the computers.

There's a few lads in Bagenals Castle in Newry who know their stuff about the genealogy. If anyone needs a few contacts PM me.

[Syferus]

There's an ancient ringfort beside the homeplace and the family were stewards here back in the pre-Norman days so this is pretty easy for me

To my eternal shame, though, the big man says our part of the family came down from the north in the 19th century.