My Trails into the Past

I had worked on my Hork research first, finding great German Catholic church records in Westphalia that took me back several generations. I thought, cool, Catholic church records really are great. I learned full names, birth and baptism dates, and parents' and sponsors' names. Then it was time to move to my Irish families in County Cork and County Tipperary, and German families who lived in Posen, an area of Poland. They were Catholics, too, so I was looking forward to seeing the same kind of records with lots of information. Not! Irish Research Jeremiah Sullivan and Mary Sheehan brought their family to the United States sometime in the mid-sixties depending on who reported their arrival. [1] A ship list has not been found for them. It is possible that the family did not come together. They had nine known children, born between 1843 and 1869, the last child, Michael, was born in Michigan. Jeremiah was a miner and perhaps the family managed to live through the potato famine w...