Comment by Ryan O'Rourke on August 6, 2014 at 11:38am

Hi, Dee.

This is a great resource.  More genealogy enthusiasts will come across your suggestion here if you post this as a new discussion in the "Irish Ancestry" members' group.  You can do that by clicking on the link below and pasting exactly what you've written above into the new discussion there:

http://thenewwildgeese.com/group/irish-ancestry/forum/topic/new?tar...

Thanks, Dee!

Comment by Erin M O'Neill on August 8, 2014 at 7:56pm

Hi Dee,  I didn't find the surname Gowdy or anything similar.  Any suggestions?  Great source otherwise. Thanks.

Comment by Dee Notaro on August 9, 2014 at 2:37am

Basically GOOGLE your surname and GOOGLE Surname with words FAMILY or GENEALOGY

http://www.surnamedb.com/Surname/gowdy and

Gowdy Name Meaning Northern Irish: variant of Goldie. KaM. Possibly an Americanized spelling of Gaude, an eastern German name under Slavic influence, or of Ger and 

https://archive.org/stream/familyhistorycom02gowd/familyhistorycom0... and

www.familytreedna.com/public/GowdyDNAProject/

Comment by Erin M O'Neill on August 10, 2014 at 5:57pm

Thank you so much.  I will pass this on to my dad for his research.

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