Born & raised in North Dakota, I went on to study the Practice of Pharmacy and was a small town pharmacist for 25 years before "retiring" due to a disability of MD. With time on my hands, I developed an interest in the family genealogy and have been workng on it since my "retirement" in 1997, continuing where my maternal grandmother and her cousin had left off, filling in blanks of that side and am currently chasing down my paternal Irish ancestry...and trying to find where my Phillips line originated in Ireland prior to settling in Quebec around 1834...as well as finding the parish to which my McDonald ancestors belonged before they left from the Doneraille area of County Cork, Ireland in 1825. Both sides of the family came together when their work for the railroads brought them to the United States in the 1890s with the Northern and Great Northern railroads, and their arrival in Staples, Minnesota.

Born & raised in North Dakota, I went on to study the Practice of Pharmacy and was a small town pharmacist for 25 years before "retiring" due to a disability of MD. With time on my hands, I developed an interest in the family genealogy and have been workng on it since my "retirement" in 1997, continuing where my maternal grandmother and her cousin had left off, filling in blanks of that side and am currently chasing down my paternal Irish ancestry...and trying to find where my Phillips line originated in Ireland prior to settling in Quebec around 1834...as well as finding the parish to which my McDonald ancestors belonged before they left from the Doneraille area of County Cork, Ireland in 1825. Both sides of the family came together when their work for the railroads brought them to the United States in the 1890s with the Northern and Great Northern railroads, and their arrival in Staples, Minnesota.