Hi Folks, It's obviously all action week in Donegal because, second only to Lindel's visit, another fascinating international event is taking place. It is the XVII Ulster American Heritage Symposium, based this year in the Ulster American Folk Park, just across the border in County Tyrone, and featuring visits to Ramelton and Rathmullan in Donegal. It has all the top genealogists and Ulster American historians and some of the topics seem fascinating. The web address with all the details is here: http://www.qub.ac.uk/cms/events/UAHS_2008.htm If you are already in Ireland, you will not want to miss this. (Especially Eva, from Cali, who IS in Ireland but whose email is resisiting all my blandishments - however, I know she gets the Lists. This is from the top page (just in case you're wondering should you fire up IE): "'Changing perspectives, 1607-2007' Centre for Migration Studies at the Ulster American Folk Park, Omagh, Northern Ireland 25-28 June, 2008 The Centre for Migration Studies at the Ulster American Folk Park, Omagh, is pleased to host the Seventeenth Ulster-American Heritage Symposium, 25-28 June, 2008, in partnership with the University of Ulster, Queen's University Belfast, the National Museums, the Library Service of Northern Ireland and the Ulster Historical Foundation. Since 1976 the Ulster-American Heritage Symposium has met every two years, alternating between co-sponsoring universities and museums in Ulster and North America. Its purpose is to encourage scholarly study and public awareness of the historical connections between Ulster and North America including what is commonly called the Scotch-Irish or Ulster-Scots heritage. The Symposium has as its general theme the process of transatlantic emigration and settlement, and links between England, Scotland, Ireland and North America. Its approach is multi-disciplinary, encouraging dialogue between those working in different fields including history, language, literature, geography, archaeology, anthropology, religion, folklife and music. The particular theme of the meeting in 2008 will be 'Changing Perspectives, 1607-2007' with the aim of presenting and exploring recent research that challenges habitual ways of thinking about the historical relationship between Ulster and North America over the last four hundred years. The keynote speaker will be Professor David Cannadine, Director of the Institute of Historical Research in the University of London and author of Mellon: An American Life (2006). As at the last Symposium in Knoxville, Tennessee in 2006, there will be an excursion on offer on Wednesday 25 June. Our plan is to visit Ramelton and Rathmullan in County Donegal." Boyd Gray http://familytrees.genopro.com/boydgray26/Boyd/default.htm