Discovering I'm an Irish-American

Ancestry.com reveals an army of cousins who crossed the Atlantic

My late father was Irish. And I always assumed that his side of the family were mostly from the Emerald Isle. However, facts have come to light that reveal wave after wave of my ancestors left Ireland to seek a better life across the Atlantic.

An old cousin of mine in the 1970s, when I was a teenager, was convinced we had family in the United States but …