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From Ireland to America: Finding My Ancestors In Pennsylvania
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From Ireland to America: Finding My Ancestors In Pennsylvania

For my final semester of college, I had to create a "capstone project" in order to graduate with my bachelor's degree in Storytelling. I decided to use the opportunity to fly from Colorado to Pennsylvania to discover who my Irish ancestors were. I visited churches, schools, birthplaces, and cemeteries, collecting dates and locations.

But the best answers I got about who they were were and what their lives were like came from a phone call I had weeks later with a professor of Irish studies at NYU.


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Travel, exploration, surviving self-employment, raising five children, and living with autism as an adult.