By Dena Wood
The Times
Donegon Discovers Her Irish Ancestry
Geneology research is a rewarding, albeit time-consuming, hobby
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Photos Courtesy of Susan Donegan
The church and cemetery known as Kill Cambell (not "Hill Campbell") was located above Richard Irvine's home.
WAITSBURG – "Richard Irvine from Hill Campbell married Eliza Hay from Horn Head." This one short line, in a tome of family history, was the lone clue that led Waitsburg resident Susan Donegan on a recent quest to Ireland in search of details to her maternal ancestry.
After countless hours of research, Susan traveled to Ireland last month to see what she could learn firsthand. Within hours of arriving on the peninsula of Horn Head, through the kindnesses of a series of strangers, Susan had visited the homesteads of both her great-great-great grandfather and great-great-great grandmother....
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