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Joseph Smith Jr

You (R-FT194071) and Joseph Smith (R-BY60318) share a common paternal line ancestor (R-Z2959) who lived around 0 CE (2,000 years ago).

Patrick Henry

You (R-FT194071) and Patrick Henry (R-M269) share a common paternal line ancestor (R-M269) who lived around 3900 BCE (6,000 years ago).

Tsar Nicholas II Romanov

You (R-FT194071) and Tsar Nicholas II Romanov (R-M269) share a common paternal line ancestor (R-M269) who lived around 3900 BCE (6,000 years ago).

Roscommon Tourism Video

I highly recommend watching this recently uploaded video on youtube by the Roscommon County Council

The McManus’s of Ardnanure and Nure

The arrival of a number of McManus families to settle in Ardnanure and Nure would have gone unnoticed and indeed unrecorded were it not for Nure’s great local Historian the Late Kieran McManus (1874-1973) who related to Folklore Collector James Delaney in 1961 that several centuries ago, the McManus’s in Nure and Ardnanure hailed from the North of Ireland.