It has been some time since we last communicated regarding the Casey family  history project.  Over the past few years I have become to feel an increasing  concern about advancing the project, especially as I see ourselves aging and  realizing the clear possibility that many interesting family facts and stories  might slip away forever, unless we make a concerted effort to record them now.

This project began in much an ad hoc fashion, some 30 years ago when I  happened to sit down at my mother's dining room table with Aunt Mary Casey  O'Brien and Aunt Geraldine Casey Johnston to ask them a few things about their  parents and grandparents, after which I laid out a rudimentary family tree  using pencil and ruler.

On occasion, over the years, I've gathered additional bits and pieces of  family information and have tried to work them to our family history as best I  could.  Then, in the past few years, computerized family tree programs became  available that greatly facilitated the generation and management of such  family records -- a far cry from my previous pencil and ruler efforts.

More recently, and quite importantly, there have been several recent family  reunion gatherings, at which time we were able to meet many new cousins, glean  additional family information, and hopefully ignite new interest in the  project.

Even more recently, in the past few months, my wife Paula, along with her own  family tree efforts, has taken an active interest in the Casey project, and  with the help of many recently available on-line data bases, (e.g., Canadian  census records, vital statistics, cemetery records, etc.), she has been able  to confirm much of our original information and provide a substantial amount  of new information concerning past family members.

As it now stands, stemming from Great Grandpappy James Casey (born circa 1807)  and his wife, Mary O'Brien, we have about 220 direct Casey descendants in our  tree, and easily double that number when other relevant branches are included  (e.g., Heffernan, O'Brien, Johnston, Leahy, Hourigan, and so forth).

Please realize that this is much a work-in-progress, and doubtlessly there are  errors and omissions within; please contact us with any additions or  corrections. (Interestingly, even in official government records it is not  unusual for individual's names and specifics to slightly change from one  report to the next, and this is what we have spent considerable time trying to  ferret out.)

At this point what we need from you (it always gets to that doesn't it?) are  contributions to help fill out your branch of the tree wherever possible.   Copies of family pictures, old, new, or in between, pictures of family  members, ancestral homes, wedding pictures, ancestral churches, high school  graduation and anniversary pictures, family documents, which could include  mass cards, obituaries, wedding notices, birth or death announcements, family  letters, would greatly enhance the family history, just to give you some  ideas.  And, of course, current pictures of any of the above are also welcome;  after all the here and now is equally important.  Please take special care  with original documents, since as you realize most are irreplaceable. Perhaps  the best way to have them included would be to photocopy them or scan them  into a computer file and forward COPIES to us via postal mail or by email.  If  you have any questions on how best to provide copies, please let us know and  we can make suggestions.

Again, we would like to THANK YOU for your interest in this project and hope  that you find this information concerning your Casey connections interesting  and heartwarming.

Please sign the Guestbook and feel free to contact us for any assistance you  might need.

Warm regards,

Bill and Paula Casey

ourfamilyconnections@hotmail.com


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