From: "McCain" <failte@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 24 October 2006 02:18:12 IST
To: "'Lunney Family'" <family@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Another Bann Valley family located
Located and filed another large Bann Valley family today. The
Dimond family,
in Irish Ó Diamáin. Native Irish, but get this, of Norse
ancestry, no
doubt about it. I've already put them in contact with their
cousins in
Maghera and Derry. Another Airchinnigh family BTW also today mixed
religiously, Catholic and Protestant, about equally.
I have six of them, spread all over the USA, Montana to New Jersey,
the more
recent immigrants know their cousins in Ireland. Very old Bann Valley
family. Being Norse they would have an interesting tale I would
imagine. The
Andersons too are Norse, but are Ulster Scots.
I had emails today from Trinity and George Southern University
(their Irish
studies Department). Trinity is interested in Gallóglaigh clans of
Ulster.
Georgia Southern wants to do a genealogy seminar.
Barra