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Tag: Conroy

Marriage of Edmund Conroy and Margo Jemmison

Catholic Records, Irish Records, Stories21 March 2015by M.C. Moran

If, as promised in December 2014, the National Library of Ireland launches a website with digitized images of its Roman Catholic parish register microfilms, this will be a game changer for Irish genealogy and family history research.1 As John Grenham…

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The Ballad of James and Margaret

Catholic Records, Irish Records, Stories10 June 2014by M.C. Moran

The family lore surrounding my 3x-great-grandparents James Moran and Margaret Jamieson is so romantic (and I have to say, so seemingly improbable) that I sometimes refer to the story of their elopement to Canada as “The Ballad of James and…

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