I plan on visiting County Louth in November and would like to gather some information prior to my trip. I'm interested in hiring a researcher to provide me information about my Coulter relatives and ancestors of County Louth. Does anyone have any suggestions for researchers available in the area?

Sharon Oddie-Brown has already provided some truly helpful information since her family and mine intertwine. Here's a little of what I now know:
5th great grandfather: Charles Coulter (Mary McEvers)
4th great grandfather: James Coulter (unknown)
3rd great grandfather: Henry Coulter (unknown)
2nd great grandfather: Ralph Coulter (Anne?)
Great grandfather: John Charles Coulter (Margaret Gordon)
Immigrated to Minnesota, USA, died from a fractured hip
on a return visit to Louth at age 82 in 1919.

I'm unable to find where John Charles Coulter was buried. His executors were listed as his cousins, William and Patrick Treacy (Tracy, Tracey). I also don't know anything about Ralph's wife Anne or any siblings Ralph may have had. I also would like to learn more about how Coulters connect to the other Coulters of Louth as well as when the Coulters came to Louth. I understand the family was awarded some land (Cavananore) for their part of the Battle of the Boyne, but no more.

It seems my immigrant ancestors left all of the information they had about their roots in Ireland perhaps because of the brutish mentality of Americans about immigrants in the 1800s. My grandfather was 53 when my mother, Dorothy, was born in 1925. My mother (deceased) knew very little about the family except for foolish and unfounded gossip passed on by my eccentric Finnish grandmother.

It's been a lot of work for me just to get this far. I'm hoping I can get enough information to actually get more connections before I go to Ireland.

Thanks for any help you can provide.

Lainey (Anderson) Malarkey