This is my brick wall and I would greatly appreciate some assistance. My 2X great grandfather was John Desmond who married Honora (Nora) Ryan, probably in the US. My great grandmother Anna Catherine Desmond (Annie)was born in 1862 in Illinois (possibly Peoria). By the 1870 census Annie and her widowed mother Nora are in Omaha, Nebraska. I was never aware of any Desmond or Ryan cousins in the Omaha area growing up.