Connect the dots

[frankhammer]

Ah, a variation of the name.

My ancestors were actually Kerwins.

Both are variations of the original O'Kirwan AFAIK.

I'm not sure if it means we're cousins, but it's cool either way.

Irish-Americans are very passionate about their Irish heritage. My Dad's family is blatantly Irish-American. There is a certain 'Irish-American' culture that is distinct from both Irish and typical American culture, and my Dad's family fits that bill. One aspect is the near-deity status of John F. Kennedy, even if you never agreed with his politics, he was 'one of us' and that's all that matters..another aspect, of course, is Roman Catholicism.

I don't really consider myself to be part of that Irish-American culture but I consider my Dad and his family to be. I'm just an American mutt at this point, I think.

The Anglicising of Gaelic names destroys their beauty imo. We've McBride ancestry or as it should be, Mac Giolla Brídhe. It's not that one ethnicity is superior to the other, just the loss of history and culture.

[Peterski]

My Ahnentafel 1-15 looks like this (red area):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geneal...ems#Ahnentafel

[Jana]

[Mikula]

From 17th century:
Just roughly, not all birthplaces are mentioned but the resting ones are on the road or not so far.

[Bobby Martnen]

Connect birthplaces of your ancestors for example great or great-great etc. grandparents.

After doing that, post a map showing the total area from which your ancestors originated.

It would essentially be a circle around the Eastern half of America and pretty much all of Europe west of the Ukraine

[Bobby Martnen]

The Anglicising of Gaelic names destroys their beauty imo. We've McBride ancestry or as it should be, Mac Giolla Brídhe. It's not that one ethnicity is superior to the other, just the loss of history and culture.

No English speaker could pronounce the original Gaelic forms. And I say that as someone with deep ties to Ireland.

[SvartVarg]

No English speaker could pronounce the original Gaelic forms. And I say that as someone with deep ties to Ireland.

And yet some of the original Gaelic isn't far off from the Anglicising.

Nor is a surname like Domhnall incredibly hard /proper https://forvo.com/word/ó_domhnaill_-_ó_dónaill/