My gggrandmother was Mary Taaffe, born in Kilkeedy Parish, just outside Tubber, Clare, in 1841. Her parents were George Jr. and Mary Murphy, and she had two sisters, Ann and Bridget. She came to Connecticut in 1862, but soon left to sail around the Horn to San Francisco. She married Michael Millerick here in 1868 and they both died in the 1891 flu epidemic in San Francisco. There were other Taaffes in Kilkeedy in 1833, but they were all gone by 1855. There are still Taaffes in Ruan, the next parish east, but I don't know the connection. Any ideas on how to go further generations back?