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Family History Beginners Board / Re: birth, land, or military record - William Burke
« on: Sunday 30 October 16 03:19 GMT (UK) »
Hi Linda! I just saw this post. It is great to hear from you! We appear to be something like 5th cousins.
I have been trying to find information on our several times g-grandfather William for about 10 years. I had been working with our cousin Patrick Burke for many years and have learned quite a lot about his past military history, but cannot seem to find any exact birth location in Ireland. It has been extremely frustrating and a bit disheartening to think we may never know. I have submitted my dad's DNA on familytreedna.com and so has Patrick, in hopes that we will find an Irish connection. I believe someone with the Berkeley name came up and Patrick contacted them and tried to convine them to get tested with more markers so we could determine how close we were, but he/she declined. That was many years ago. We found close connections with several people, but still could not trace the ancestry to Ireland. A few of them seemed to keep leading us to N.C and VA. If you turn up anything, please share it with me. I will gladly do the same! 😊 In the meantime I will keep rooting!
