Just close your eyes, let your imaginatoin soar, and it will all be clear to you. - Jane (PS - I understood it) >From: "L.Martin" <L.Martin@zen.co.uk> >To: DONEGALEIRE-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: [DONEGALEIRE] Genealogy and Jargon >Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2004 11:06:16 +0100 > >One of the problems associated with most serious subjects is that the >individuals engaged in its study construct a special vocabulary and set of >procedures to describe what they are doing. This has some advantages among >specialists in that they understand one another's activities. However it >does create a problem for newcomers who are trying to penetrate the thicket >surrounding the speciality and who probably think that it is a barrier >constructed by practitioners in order to keep the natives out. The >difficulty in genealogy is compounded by practitioners in different >countries circling the wagons in entirely different ways. > >Those of us engaged in a search for Irish ancestors are steeped in >procedures involving names, dates, religions and locality (townland, civil >and religious parishes, baronies etc). Am I alone in thinking that the >occasional email from across the pond reads not just like a communication >from another country but a message from another planet. I refer in >particular to the recent contribution by Jim Denning which is repeated >below. > >xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >xxxxxxx > >Mary Jane RILEY 3 Feb 1883@Woburn,MA.rs@Woburn,MA.1883- dau of >PatrickRILEY@irelandrs@Woburn,MA.currier,1883-& >EllenMCHUGH@ireland-rs@Woburn,MA.1883- >-------------------------------------------------- >ThomasGARVIN1845-Donegal Ireland-rs@Woburn,MA.Currier1881-rs@ Woburn >,Ma.currier1883- Son of ThomasGARVIN Donegal Ireland & Catherine Donegal >Ireland >wed11 Aug 1871WOBURN MA.1ST BOTH,-REV JOHN ZUCIE? UNCLEAR >BridgetMCHUGH1852abt@Donegal Ireland-rs@Woburn,Ma.1883-rs@Woburn, Ma.,1881- >dau of CharlesMCHUGH > >Chelsea,Ma.-Woburn,Ma.-denning-dennen-danin-dinan-dinihey-denningston-dinnin >g- >carlon-carroll-dever-cogan-malone-heslin-piscopo-mazzola-martini-farrell-mch >ug >h-farley-grimes-lynch-doherty-SanDanto,Ita-Adargh,longford-Revere,Ma-Wintrop >,M >a.-sprague- and ever growing list >Jim Denning > >xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >xxxxxxxxxxxx > >There is no doubt that Jim Denning is a very knowledgeable and accomplished >genealogist, he being the list owner of no less than 6 lists. But has the >USA terminology diverged so far from that familiar to me, and perhaps other >Irish practitioners, that we now need someone to act as an official >translator. > >The US of A and the UK have been described as two nations separated by a >common language - Is there anyone out there, perhaps residing in the >glorious Berkshire hills of Western Massachusetts, who could transpose the >above from USA-speak to UK-speak. > >Liam > >"A bird in the bush is worth two in the Cat" > > > >==== DONEGALEIRE Mailing List ==== >To browse through the archives of the list go to >http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl >Visit my homepage at http://freepages.genealogy.com/~donegaleire > >============================== >Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration >Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. >http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237 > _________________________________________________________________ MSN Toolbar provides one-click access to Hotmail from any Web page – FREE download! http://toolbar.msn.com/go/onm00200413ave/direct/01/