Quote Originally Posted by auld argonian
Glad to hear that you have gotten this "validation"...it's great when you find out that someone else in your family has done a lot of research into the family lineage and that you can take advantage of it. Same happened for me and the original researcher began back in the 1930's and the body of knowledge has grown since then as relatives near and far add information.

Sorry that you received the news at such a sad occaision...if the services were being held in one of these traditional Irish family run funeral homes here in Chicago, they would have had a special room set aside for the attendees to have coffee, some pastry, an occaisional nip of the hard stuff and a smoke in...you could have done the happy dance in there and no one would have thought any less of you.

Seriously, though, my condolences for your loss and my congratulations on your new information.

Best

AA
AA, thanks.

We actually had the memorial service and then an "Irish wake". If the info had been provided at the wake after the memorial service, I would have celebrated more, but the conversation happened when we were picking everybody up to go to the funeral home, and it was the first time many of us had been together in many years, so there was some hesitation and reservation in getting close to people. That was gone by the end of the day.