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Hi John, my Kerry geography is not great but church records for Kerry are on this sitehttps://www.irishgenealogy.ie/en/ click on church records, insert Kerry in place and you get 45 hits on Michael Connell between 1852 and 1856, the hits include if a Michael O'Connell is the father or a witness etc so not that many, also brings back Connell, if you are sure of the parish you might narrow it further, you can not see the entry but could go here with the date and search under event, month and year and then read. https://registers.nli.ie/ you can find areas here https://www.townlands.ie/ however still do not find the townland as your address is the entire penisula with many parishes by the look of it. The 2nd christian name does not appear but you should seeit in the actual record so dont be put off by no J or John in the search, it may be in the record.
Have you considered using the Gedmatch number and finding an Irish Facebook page running a tool based on a spreadsheet and gedmatch number, there is one at least for Ireland as a whole and most counties appear to have one or a Gedmatch section where people post numbers, there is one at least County Kerry, Ireland Dna & Genealogy there is one on Irish Surnames also and an Irish DNA one think that is the new name, also notice that some are starting up over smaller areas like parts of a county etc while memberships are low, can be in the hundreds or thousands maybe everyone is commited and you usually get a response unlike the bigger sites. You apply to join and my experience has been positive. The spread sheet then gives you the matches on the site (nothing below 10cMs) which you post and tag the FB names you match so they are alerted. There will be comprehensive info on the site as most including myself appear to mess up first but it is easy enough when you get the hang of it.
Good Luck
Pat
Pat,
Appreciate your advice and your time. I have used the Irish genealogy site and narrowed it down to two Michaels. The census records in the USA have date variations for birth and immigration dates so I created a few statistical scenarios and ran them.
I have started using one Facebook DNA site. As you said the first attempt may contain errors but you have to stay focused, re-read the instructions and try again. I will try again.
Thanks again,
John O'Connell
John,
I, too, am looking for my O'Connell ancestry. Not sure if I've gotten the right Michael O'Connell, but the one I've landed on for now came from Limerick in June 1863 thru an English port on the ship The Kangaroo. He was born in 1836 and ended up in southern Indiana.
My father's name was John (born in 1890) and his father was William, and I believe his father was Michael. I see you have dates that don't match mine, but you never know. We could find out that somewhere in Ireland our families might have been linked. My DNA turned up as coming from the Iveragh Peninsula.
Nan O'Connell Durant
