Ireland 2005

In 2005 we made our trip to Ireland. We were there for 12 days visiting at least 12 counties and maybe more. When we were there I shot well over 3,000 pictures and Deb shot about 7 rolls beside that. Of the twelve days we were there it rained about half the time, but that is Ireland. The people kept telling us it was going to be gorgeous and it finally did toward the end of our trip, but I never got to see the sunset on Galway Bay, next time we will. Of course along with all of that we did and the fact we found my relatives along with the house that John and Elizabeth Doherty lived in in the 1800's, it was well worth trading a little bad weather for the discoveries we found. All in all it was as I told Deb before we left the greatest adventure of our lives. There are over 40 pages in this site including copies of the actual maps we used and the census papers of 1901 and 1911 of County Leitrim given to us in Leitrim and the genealogy report given to me on our second day in Ireland which in effect launched us on our successful search for my relatives. Without their help we never would have found them, but we did. The pages are broken down by the day. I think that was the easiest way to do it. I hope you can get some sense of the fun and joy that we had on this trip and that I hope, sincerely hope you can visit Ireland in the near future. It is just a great place. On our trip except for about 3 days we were busy every day from breakfast till late at night. It was very tiring but in the end it was all worth it.  I hope you enjoy it, like we did. One last thing. The two days July 6 and July 7 were the days we found my relatives and if you would like to read my thoughts about those two days and also kind of an overview of what I saw in Leitrim please look at the days, it might be easier to understand to first read the days and then look at the pictures or just enjoy the site, its up to you.
Tim Antosy and Deb DeMarco