Amazon.com states they have the book available thru their website. Lee Graham -----Original Message----- >From: Betty Ann <[email protected]> >Sent: Jan 6, 2009 10:47 PM >To: Ireland Mailing List <[email protected]>, Donegal Mailing List <[email protected]> >Subject: [DONEGALEIRE] The Book of Irish Families Great & Small > > >I have heard that this book is a good resource tool. > >Could sks with access to a copy of this book, The Book >of Irish Families Great & Small by Michael C. O'Laughlin, >please look to see if there are any Osborne families >listed in it? > >I am not sure what the author's criteria might be for an >Irish Family. I suspect that my Osborne ancestors were >Scots-Irish, and may only have been in Ireland for a >couple of generations. > >Thought it might be best to see if they are even listed >in this book before I bother the library to request it >brought in on Inter-Library loan. > >Thank you very much. >Betty Ann > When replying to a digest post, quote only the specific text to which you are replying, removing the rest of the digest from your reply. Also, remember to change the subject of your reply so that it coincides with the message subject to which you are replying. > >TO VIEW PREVIOUS EMAILS BY SUBJECT, GO TO THE THREADED ARCHIVES AT >http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/DONEGALEIRE/ > > >TO VIEW PREVIOUS EMAILS BY DATES AND SUBJECT GO TO THE SEARCHABLE ARCHIVES AT http://archiver.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/search?path=DONEGALEIRE > >SOME HELPFUL WEBSITES: >Donegal Genealogy Resource (Lindel's Site) http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~donegal/ >Donegaleire Genealogy Links & Data >http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~donegaleire/ >Bob's Donegal Ireland Genealogy >http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~hiflyte/ > >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Hi, Betty Ann and Lee, Google Books has the Master Volume to the 28 book set online at: http://books.google.com/books?id=mZt3oGtk1KgC This is the master volume to the 28 book set on Irish Family History from the Irish Genealogical Foundation. The largest and most comprehensive of the series, this volume includes family histories from every county in Ireland and Northern Ireland. It also has, for the first time, the complete surname index for the entire series. The 27 other books which are indexed in this volume will provide additional information on even more families. Use Google to search for other online books at: Http://books.google.com/books And type the book title into the search field. Paula Kelley Ward San Antonio, Texas [email protected] Genealogy is my Soul Hobby