Story posted at Thousand Islands Life, search for Irish Canadian Ancestors!

Author Jannet L. Walsh —photo above : Jannet L. Walsh on Wolfe Island, Ontario, Canada, at historic Walsh Farm, 2024.

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Jannet L. Walsh
Thursday, May 14, 2026
Murdock, Minnesota USA

My story “A How To . . .Search for Irish Canadian Ancestors . .” just posted at Thousand Islands Life online magazine, May 14, 2026. View story at Thousand Islands Life. There’s tips and resources to help you search for your own Irish and Canadian ancestors.

Spanning USA and Canada — Thousand Islands Life online website is published in Canada, providing a comprehensive resource for information about the St. Lawrence River, from Cape Vincent, New York, USA, and Kingston, Ontario, Canada, on Lake Ontario to Brockville and Morristown, fifty miles down the river. The web site is huge, providing information about twenty-two communities and other subjects. Learn more at Thousand Islands Life’s About page.

The Thousand Islands are a group of islands, an archipelago, of more than a thousand islands between the United States and Canada boarder located in the Saint Lawrence River.

My Irish and Canadian family lost 35 years of history on the largest island, Wolfe Island, part of the Thousand Islands in Canada. You can read one of my earlier stories about uncovering my family history in Canada, Uncovering Irish Canadian family genealogy from archipelago Thousand Islands – Wolfe Island and Kingston, Ontario Canada.

You can read an earlier story I wrote “The Islander Johnny O’Shea, Bard of Wolfe Island (1932 – 2023)” for Thousand Islands Life, September 2024.

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Hear my voice, learn a few details about my published story at Thousand Islands Life, May 14, 2026.

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Regards,

Jannet L. Walsh
Written at home, Murdock, Minnesota

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Jannet L. Walsh is a recipient of a Southwest Minnesota Arts Council Artist Growth Grant, 2024-2026. This activity is funded, in part, by a grant from the Southwest Minnesota Arts Council through an appropriation from the Minnesota State Legislature with money from the State’s general fund.

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*Jannet L. Walsh of Murdock, Minnesota is a photographer, writer, and Irish Family History Detective. She is the author of a creative nonfiction quest narrative “Higgledy-Piggledy Stones: Family Stories from Ireland and Minnesota,” 2023 by Shanti Arts Publishing. Walsh is recipient of a Southwest Minnesota Arts Council Growth Grant funded by the McKnight Foundation, 2022-2024, and Southwest Minnesota Arts Council, 2024-2026. She is also recipient of a 2024 Minnesota State Arts Board Creative Individuals Grant, funding from National Endowment for the Arts. You can follow Walsh on Facebook and Twitter, and on her other social media channels, with the hashtag #IrishFamilyHistoryDetective.