Finding Your Roots

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Gates

But in the tiny town of Murrisk in County Mayo, we found something precious, the record of her baptism. That's really amazing. You know, from another from another country and another place, and yet tied directly to me. Wow. And to know I've never known the part of Ireland either. That's it. - Over here. What do you think it was like for her to go from that small, rural village to Boston, Massachusetts? Oh, I always wonder because you know, there's some part of you know, you romanticize a little bit your past. You think, oh, Ireland. And it is a beautiful country, I've been there. And you think, why would you, what a beautiful place, why would you leave? And I know, obviously there was famine and hardship. Because you would die. Right. I wonder what it felt like for people going on these journeys. Oh my God. You know, and you're going because you have nothing to lose. There'd be no other reason you would. So just the situation that you were in, to make you go to begin with. And to leave everybody that you knew. And know that, really know you would never see them again. - Never see them again. It's sad.