
Damn. I’m an “Englishman in Orange County”
I’ve written here before about how much fun I’ve had working with www.Ancestry.com to check out my family roots. I got so involved in it that I took my first trip to Ireland this summer to meet with some top geneology researchers to commission a detailed study of the Irish "Lacy" family. I also had a chance to go to J. Kennedy’s Pub while in the Emerald Isle. Quite a dive, I might add. My research was exciting because using Ancestry.com and a U.S. based researcher, I was able to trace my family all the way back to William Lacy, II, who reached New Kent, Virginia by ship in 1652. My family history on my father’s side has been 100% Irish, at least through family lore. The Lacy men usually married Irish girls over the more recent centuries, and yes there is surely some blarney in me for sure. I love the story and song of Molly Malone. I enjoy a Guinness and I like Harp better, I love that quart of Jameson Irish Whiskey that Tom Fuentes gives me… Read More