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LisaM

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19. I'm just starting to research it - County Leitrim is what we found for the most recent link.

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Thu May 24, 2018, 05:39 PM

May 2018

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Though she may have moved to Dublin before emigrating to New York.

Charmingly, we found my step-great grandmother listed as having come from "the Irish Free State". I found that incredibly moving, since it must have been recorded very shortly after 1920.

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