Watch this space - big news on Lindel tomorrow. When it is reported in the DD, I will post the link. Boyd Gray http://familytrees.genopro.com/boydgray26/Boyd/default.htm -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Margaret Graham Sent: 02 July 2008 23:04 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [DONEGALEIRE] DONEGALEIRE Digest, Vol 3, Issue 159 --Re Old headstones. Plenty of them in the graveyards around here, Drumholm, Killymard, The Old Abbey, Carn, and these are just some examples around my area. I found a headstone dating from 1611 in Killymard and it is was perfectly legible, they date back in these graveyards to the 16/17/ and 1800s. Wonder where the idea came from that we were a third world country before the EU, I grew up here in Donegal and I and my family are still here, we were always very much "first world" and we were not rich either just an average family, we certainly never considered ourselves to be like the starving people in the third world countries of today. Incidentally, I had lunch with Lindel and Muriel in Letterkenny last week and we had a lovely time, Lindel is coming over to visit on Friday and I am meeting her again, it was a wonderful experience to meet her. She is having a great time here. The only gripe I would have about headstones is the fact that so little information is on most of them, not even the name of the Townland. I think that a wife's maiden name should be recorded, I have got photos of gravestones from friends in Canada and America and they are much more detailed and sometimes it is the only way that people can accurately trace their family who emigrated as the records may not be so good at home in Ireland. Margaret 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