----- For all you people who are researching their ancestors from Drumholm/Laghey or Kilbarron Church of Ireland Parishes, a new handbook is now ready for publication. Sylvia Arkinson has spent the last two or three years transcribing every stone in the graveyard at Mullinacross, she has unearthed stones that were under the soil and covered them up again. She is calling it a handbook as she feels it is to assist people looking for their ancestors. The handbook contains 140 A4 pages and has a map of the graveyard with all graves numbered, Burial Records from the original Registers, and the names on the headstones as well as photographs of the various types of headstones. It has been a monumental [get the pun] task and she is ready to have it printed. After the initial cost all moneys will go to Drumholm Parish Church. It will cost approximately 10 euro plus postage and packing. If anyone wants one they can get in touch with me initially. Margaret

Have finally found the right searchwords to get me to a website where I can learn the proper pronunciation[s] of the county names. A native speaker says the name of each county [and alternatives] then the main town name is pronounced. You can play it over if you wish. I find it takes awhile to download the .wav file and open it with Media Player, but I do get to hear the names. If your Windows Media player button [showing OK] is ghosted like mine, try clikking on it a few times, it wakes up. http://www.d.umn.edu/~pnuhring/Unit1.html Scroll down to the colorful map and clik a county I've been trying to find a list of pronunciations of the counties using phonetic spellings, but only found one and it had only 10 of the counties. One has Donegal said with an EE as the accented middle syllable. Like : dun eagle, however the native speaker says Dun nee GOL. You can view 5 replies with pronunciations offered for the requested counties. *http://tinyurl.com/42d2b9 *Please send me links to websites with phonetic guides to pronouncing the at least the county names. Meg Greenwood / Oklahoma ===================