Finnegan Frustration!
For six years I have been tracing my Irish roots!My Mom was Virginia Flanagan (1922-2002)and the granddaughter of Thomas Flanagan, Mary Jane Finnegan, Bernard Tighe and Anne Branegan.I have made many family connections with the Flanagans(Conroys) from Roscommon, the Tighes(Forsythes) from Meath and Antrim, and the Branegans(Kennedys) from Louth and Meath.In all these years not one link to my Finnegan(Conroy) Family.All I have on my great grandmother is her death certificate with Parents James and Mary Jane (Conroy) Finnegan both born in Ireland.Mary was born in NYC around 1872. Searched the SS records, every church in NYC, all the archive records in NY and I can't even find her for certain in the 1880 Census!Even seached page by page the 1890 NYC Police census.The first time I find her is in the 1900 Census married to my g gf.What makes it more difficult nobody remembers her having any brothers or sisters!There has to be a connection out here!
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