Irish Ancestry?

I have heard that they experienced a lot of problems when they came here from Ireland. Many other nationalities also changed their names, or at least the spelling of their name, when they came to America - they wanted to be identified as American - not Irish or German etc. Many name spellings changed when people who didn't know how to spell documented their arrival in the states. Many of the immigrants didn't know how to read or write themselves and those who documented them just guessed.

Many names were changed for various reason's.A lot of families changed their name when they came from another country also I have found some people to be illiterate and could not spell their own name.Sometimes,an official,ie,the doctor,registar would misspell it on the birth certificate.My uncle will be 85 next month.His birthday is actually the 14th,but the doctor wrote down the 17th and it was never corrected.He has 2 birthday's.If he were smart,when he was younger he should of taken advantage of that situation.Well,back to the subject of names,some people were apart from their family because they had an arguement,they married the wrong person,changed they religion,did not want to work in the family business or something and they would change the spelling of their surname. spalladino,what was your families surname?

From what I have seen German's have a temper too.I do not have red hair.I was always told that my temper was from my Cherokee blood.I am part Irish,but apparently the Cherokee blood came in to the family later then the Irish did.So, I am more Cherokee.

There is an O'Fallon Ilinois also.The Fallon river run's thru both state's.O'Fallon,MO was name'd after the head of the nearby railroad and was a prominant businessman.Which is ironic because the most prominant Follin around here was John Follin. But thanks for lletting me know.I didn't know about that till a few months ago.

I just research and found out that the John O'Fallon that was the namesake of O'Fallon,MO is the same namesake for O'Fallon,IL.Here is a picture of him.

There is a town named O'Fallon in Missouri!

My most recent ancestors to come from Ireland were from Wexford County - my great-great-grandfather, William H. Tackaberry came to the United States with his parents, Fossey J. Tackaberry and Anna Switzer at seven years of age in 1851. I do, however, have a number in various other sections of my family who came to the states earlers. My two oldest children, in addition to the Irish from my side, descended from the O'Byrne's, and they both have the dark hair and fair complexions.

Hello again. I was very impressed by the two family names you gave me: Tackaberry and Switzer. They are fantastic names to do research on, as they are both so unusual. We have Byrnes too. They are very difficult to research as the names are too popular. Interesting that the unusual names come from Wexford. I too have connections in the neighbouring counties of Wicklow and Carlow, which also bear unusual names like Essen and Sallinger/St.Leger. Your Switzer name may be connected with a famous store in Dublin called Switzer's. It is after all a quite unusual name for Ireland. All the best. UMart

My two oldest children are of the dark hair and fair skin Irish variety - from their Dad's side (and the temper), but they also got the red highlights and fair skin from the Irish on my side of the family.