My Trails into the Past

This is my third year working on this year-long prompt, hosted by Amy Johnson Crow. I will write each week in one of my two blogs, either Mam-ma’s Southern Family or at My Trails into the Past. I have enjoyed writing about my children’s ancestors in new and exciting ways. Sometimes information in records just do not agree. One of the items might be correct and the other pieces of information wrong. Or all of it is wrong and research is still needed to find the right answer. It might even be possible to not discover the right answer. My example is my 2x-great-grandfather, Jeremiah Sullivan. Not a lot is known about him. He came with his family to the United States sometime in the early 1860s but no ship list has been found yet. It is believed they were from County Cork. One of their children was baptized in the Eyeries Parish in 1860. Their next child was born 11 Aug 1869 in Houghton County, Michigan. So, I have no idea when he married Mary Sheehan. I have no idea of their arrival...