Crisis communications strategist Molly McPherson traces her family line from County Laois, through Canada and New York, to a farming family in Rosemount, Minnesota.
"We know where we go back to: County Laois."
Image credits (images cropped and animated):
Rock of Dunamase, County Laois: Kent Clemmons, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Emigrants leaving Queenstown, 1874: Harper's Weekly. Library of Congress
Castle Garden, New York: William Henry Jackson, Detroit Publishing Co. Library of Congress
Rosemount water tower: Tony Webster, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Photos of Molly McPherson courtesy of Molly McPherson. Map data: Natural Earth, public domain.
Licenses:
CC BY-SA 3.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
CC BY 2.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/
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