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It’s been a long time coming, but welcome to Irish Philadelphia’s first genealogy column. “Who’s Your Granny?” makes its debut with a subject close to the hearts of the Irish—family stories.

The Duffy’s Cut victim was laid to rest in a cemetery in Ardara on March 2 at a service attended by the men who found his body and the family left behind. Story and photo reprinted with permission, The Donegal News.

The remains of one of the 57 Irish immigrants who died during a cholera epidemic more than 180 years ago will be buried in Ireland on March 2. A local Irish community leader, Vincent Gallagher, donated a grave in his family plot to bury 18-year-old John Ruddy, who died at Duffy’s Cut.

The iTunes store is carrying an app that will introduce you to your Irish heritage.

The recent announcement by Amtrak that the mass grave at Duffy’s Cut is too close to the tracks to be safely exhumed was disappointing, but not devastating; there is still much work to be done at the site.

A visit to his local church recalls earlier times in history for essayist Tom Finnigan–when visitors weren’t always welcome at the site where the Lagg Chapel now stands in Malin, Inishowen, County Donegal.

You can now look up your ancestors online in 1901 as well as 1911. What are you waiting for? Here’s how to do it.

Former prosecutor turned genealogist Deborah Large Fox helps others locate their elusive Irish forebears. Learn how she does it.