Your ethnic composition?

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Irish, Austrian, Jewish, Lebanese, Native American

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Verily, that's fascinating... whenabouts did they live?  I could try to find census records for you, if it's 1850-1930 (though 1890's were burnt to a crisp).

Actually, they weren't burnt. Part of them were burnt, and the water that was used to put out the fire made the pages of the census stick together and then grew moldy. [/useless trivia technicality]

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Verily, have you had any chance to look through Irish church records? My wife says that once you get them traced back to Ireland that's all you can use.

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Verily, have you had any chance to look through Irish church records? My wife says that once you get them traced back to Ireland that's all you can use.

Ah, but it's the getting to Ireland that's the trouble. And there are too many fecking Byrnes and O'Byrnes and various alternative spellings in Ireland to be making guesses about Peter Byrne's parents or grandparents. (Like I said, we're not even sure they were Irish.)

Yeah, I dunno. I'm sure my wife will read my posts here and have a better response. She's the genealogy master of the family.