SHOCK and HORROR!

​Shock and horror! Today is the fortieth anniversary of my first day of work in genealogy.  Where has all that time gone? I should add that I was a mere teenager then, albeit months away from not being one.  It was a dream-come-true.  A few days earlier I had my...

A Little Fact about Genealogy & Baltinglass

  ​It’s well known that the family of Walt Disney, creator of Mickey Mouse and all that sparkles, came from north Co. Kilkenny. But Baltinglass, Co. Wicklow, had a very close connection with the Disney family. One of them lived in Baltinglass for many years. Mary...