Coffin Ship

A search on Google provides many references to Coffin Ships that carried emigrants escaping famines or clearances in Ireland or Scotland to distant lands.

Wikipedia has a long article on coffin ships. The first papagraph offers a succinct description: “A coffin ship (Irish: long cónra) is a popular idiom used to describe the ships that carried Irish migrants escaping the Great Irish Famine and Highlanders displaced by the Highland Clearances.^[1]” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coffin_ship

The Irish National Famine Monument at the base of Croagh Patrick in Murrisk, County Mayo, depicts a coffin ship with skeletons and bones as rigging. (Photo by Robert Ball)

Geneajoy aka Joynealogy

1. Geneajoy is that feeling of elation that accompanies connecting with a new relative, uncovering a new ancestral story, artefact or photo, meeting up with genimates, visiting an ancestral home, village or church or spreading the word about the joy of genealogy

Geneajoy – Pat and Jill get together in Salt Lake City