Julie KO <[email protected]> asks: >Thank you in advance to any one who can help me with this puzzle. I >have finally discovered that my family (Gilligans/ Kennedys) came from a >place in Co. Sligo called Leakfield. Does anyone have a clue as to >whether that is a town or a parish and where it is? I can not find it on >a parish list or a map! Julie...LEEKFIELD is a townland of approximately 367+ acres, Co.Sligo,Barony of Tireragh, Parish of Skreen and Poor Law Union of Dromore West. Catholic parish registers for Skreen and Dromard have a start date of 1848 for births and marriages, with missing years; 1869 to 1878. Copies of these should be available through the LDS. JJ May God Bless You and Keep You [email protected]

Thank you in advance to any one who can help me with this puzzle. I have finally discovered that my family (Gilligans/ Kennedys) came from a place in Co. Sligo called Leakfield. Does anyone have a clue as to whether that is a town or a parish and where it is? I can not find it on a parish list or a map! Julie Kennedy It is in the shelter of each other that the people live. -Irish Proverb

Joanne at [email protected]> asks: >Perhaps someone can help me with this dilemma: > >I've discovered an ancestor who was discharged from the British military on >Oct. 29, 1890, and gave this address as his destination upon leaving the >military. > >12 Brown Street >Powtlaw >Co. Waterford > >I've never done a census search in Ireland, and wondered if it would be >possible to search the address to see if he were joining other family members. Joanne..The town is Portlaw,Waterford County,Barony of Upperthird,Civil parish of Clonagam and Poor Law Union of Carrick on Suir. Census records exist for 1901 and 1911 and are available through the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, The Mormons. You can order a copy of the 1901 census from your local Family History Center ...I think the town of Portlaw is in the Electorial District of Portlaw. Hope this is of help to you...Jim/JJ May God Bless You and Keep You [email protected]

Perhaps someone can help me with this dilemna: I've discovered an ancestor who was discharged from the British military on Oct. 29, 1890, and gave this address as his destination upon leaving the military. 12 Brown Street Powtlaw Co. Waterford I've never done a census search in Ireland, and wondered if it would be possible to search the address to see if he were joining other family members. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks in advance. Joanne Lawler Silver Spring, MD USA

See http://world.std.com/~ahern/results.htm for customer comments HTH! At 06:36 PM 4/27/99 -0400, Jerome J McDermott wrote: >Hi >I recently received a reply from the South Mayo Heritage Center >suggesting I try Roscommon as nothing was found in Mayo. Since then I >heard some less tham encouraging things said about Roscommom. Would I do >better by going thru Dublin, timewise and moneywise. >Jerome J. McDermott

Hi I recently received a reply from the South Mayo Heritage Center suggesting I try Roscommon as nothing was found in Mayo. Since then I heard some less tham encouraging things said about Roscommom. Would I do better by going thru Dublin, timewise and moneywise. Jerome J. McDermott

Currently the Spinning Wheel Entitlement List is a free database at Ancestry.com under the name "Irish Flax Growers List, 1796." Try variant spellings of the surnames in which you are interested. It provides counties and first names, as well as an "ID number" (as to which I do not have a clue, what that means). I say these two lists are the same because I already had the Carberrys from the Spinning Wheel list and the same individuals are listed on the Flax Growers one. Use this link: http://www.ancestry.com/ancestry/recent.asp which lists all the new free databases. Sharon Carberry

>#GenealogyForum Chat Channel on Afternet has two sessions particular interest in May. > >1) Trevor Rix, a founding member of both the Suffolk Family History Society and the Essex Society for Family History of Suffolk, England, will be joining us in the Channel on May 15th at 5:30 PM Eastern Time. > >The topic for Trevor's presentation is "Researching UK Parish Registers" and will cover researching the parish registers of England and Wales, with a brief mention of Scotland. "Parish registers of baptisms, marriages and burials are the most important source of UK official family history records. They span 1538 to the present day." > >2) Cyndi Howells (www.CyndisList.com) will be joining us on May 23rd for a Tour of CyndisList website similar to our tour of FamilyTreeMaker that was conducted by Paul Burchfield. > >If you would like to join us for these sessions, you will find on our website, complete step by step instructions for downloading the necessary software for connecting with Internet Relay Chat. You will also find setup instructions for connecting with our network (Afternet) and our channel (#GenealogyForum). These instructions are on the link titled: "How to Join IRC" > >We hope you will join us for these informative evenings! > > Genealogy Channels on Afternet IRC (Internet Relay Chat) #GenealogyForum, #Genealogy-Native, #CanadaGenWeb, #Genealogy-Dutch, #genealogie (Quebec), #Gen-Georgia, #Gen-NewEngland, #Gen-Virginia, #Gen-Maine, #Gen-North_Carolina, #Gen-Texas #Niagra_Genealogy and #Gen-Community (If YOUR research area has no channel, YOU can register it!) Surname Channels for: Adams, Cates, Dickey, Dyess, Etheridge, Gray, Harris, Hooks, Hudnall, McCabe, Wilson and Wordon. (If your surname doesn't have a channel yet, YOU can register it!) http://www.rare.on.ca/users/genealogyforum/index.htm Contains Surnames of Visitors Schedule of Events Simple instructions for joining us. *****

Surnames: ROOKE, COOKE, BARCLAY, STRETTELL, LEADBEATER, SHACKLETON, CARLETON Looking for the ROOKE family of Dublin and the families they married into. GEORGE ROOKE (b. 1652, England, d.1742, Dublin, married 1686, Limerick) married JOAN COOKE (b. 1653, Limerick, d. 1737, Dublin) of Limerick. They were a Quaker family and he was a Quaker minister/missionary. We are trying to connect this family with our line of the family, so we are trying to find the immigrant that sired our AMOS ROOKE (b. 1753, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, d. 1842, Staten Island, New York, USA). Any help would be appreciated! Jana Rooke, San Jose, California, USA http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/r/o/o/Mark--Jana--Rooke/GENE28-0001.html

> "Finding Your Roots" NBC begins Monday April 26th on the TODAY show > with a 1/2 hour segment each day for a week at 8:00 AM with Tom > Brokaw, Katie Couric, Stone Phillips and several others researching > their roots from Romania to Japan. Should be REALLY interesting! > Lots of hype going on right now about genealogy. Have you seen the > April 19th edition of > TIME magazine?! Terrific.

This is for all who asked me to share what I received from the South Mayo Heritage Center, for my $70. Today I received my family report from the South Mayo Heritage Center, 10 days later then they promised, but included an apology. For myself, the report was unable to find my ggparents. They found a family of 5 in 1847 in Sarnaught, near Castlebar, which has some similarities to my ggparents. However I told them that the third child was born in Canada in 1845. Now I must verify this again, thru the Canadian Roots List. While my gfather always told my father that he was born in Mayo, the Heritage Center map shows that a portion of Mayo was ceded to Co. Roscommon 1n 1898. This would be Kilcolman, Ballaghaderren, and Castlemore sections of Mayo that border on Co.'s Sligo and Roscommon. Most of the info I got, was researched from sources available at LDS centers. They spent time on Griffiths valuations, when they were told in my letter, that the family was in Canada, 10 years before. For the record they gave me this answer. The non-existence of explicit records of Patrick McDermott and Bridget Flannelly his wife, implies that either the family lived outside of Co. Mayo, or in a Mayo parish for which suitably early records either do not exist or are incomplete for the period. No birth/baptisms of themselves were found. No marriage record found. I think I would have been satisfied with the results, had I not done a lot of searching on my own prior to engaging the Heritage center. What this does for me, is to make me go back over my work, to see if I'm correct in each case. $70 is alot of money to spend on one Heritage Center, so each person has to make his or her own decision, about spending that much money. It was 12 weeks that I waited, so their might have been a waiting list. Jerome J. McDermott PS. I'm including two messages, that were on the net about Heritage Centers. Please read them and base your opionion on them. >From Dennis Ahern South Mayo got a 73% favorably rating, based on 22 responses in our survey. --------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "Ted Hynd" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Date: Fri, 9 Apr 1999 11:27:30 +0100 Subject: Re: Cost of Irish Research Message-ID: <[email protected]> References: <[email protected]> Yes, Irish research definitely is expensive if you were to use the Heritage Centres. I myself did for a period of time work in one. It was embarrassing having to tell enquirers the cost of the service. Also, the information held in these Centres is suspect to say the least. The Centres were started in 1985 and all church ledger transcribing was carried out by what was called voluntary 'dole' members. These were people who were on the unemployment register. However, the work was not voluntary. There really was no option, either you did it or you lost your dole money. Quite simply, it was a form of cheap forced labour. The people who did this work were on average, around the age of seventeen, had no knowledge of computers let alone know anything about Genealogy or how to transcribe documents. Equally important, the majority of them had no interest in the work they were doing. Needless to say, the results of their efforts was catastrophic. It was not until seven years later in 1992, that the Heritage Centres realized that the information that they had collected and put on computer databases was not up to the standard or accuracy required for such an important. Concern grew around 1991, and it was decided to allow Independent Inspections of completed work. Comparison of records from original source showed an extremely high percentage of error in transcription and computer database input. Also, many records were found to be figments of the imagination of some of the so called volunteers. It was not uncommon to find a Marlyn Monroe married to an Al Jolson or such like. Other records were found simply with some kind of a statement made in language best left to the imagination. It was also discovered that when the project was started in 1985, no one had been responsible for co-ordinating the project throughout all the Centres in Ireland. All Heritage Centre had been responsible for the purchase of their own computers and software. This again was later to prove a disaster. It was found out around the same time (1991), that the Centres had used many different makes of computer, some Apples, some IBM compatibles, and worse still, much older cheap computers which after a couple of years became extinct. The information copied and stored to floppy disk from these computers could not be accessed on the more modern types, therefore this information lay on shelves in the Centres for years before anyone had the technical knowhow to resolve the problem. In 1992, it was decided that the Heritage Centre project should literally start again from the beginning, and that people with proper professional qualifications should be put in charge of the Centres. Whether they have got their act together now I do not know. I can say however, that the church records were not recalled to the Heritage Centres for re transcribing. The 'volunteers' are still using the original transcribed record cards (warts and all), to build their computer database information. Regard Ted Hynd of 'Donfam' at: http://homepage.tinet.ie/~donfam

Can someone help me with the gender of the name Gresset? Is it male or female. And if so are there any nicknames or other versions for it? Thank you, Ludie

Trying to find these Casey brothers/sisters: John Daniel Casey, born 5/8/1860 in Dreeyfinnan, Cork, IRE. Married Jennie Scott in 1889 in Oregon. William Casey, born 6/12/1870 in Derryfinnan, Cork, IRE. He married Anne ___ and may have died in CALIF. Michael Casey, born 2/7/1862 in Derryfinnan, Cork, IRE. He married JULIA QUILL and had the following children: Jeremiah, Mary, Johanna( who married a MR. TWOMEY), and Daniel Casey(born 1902 in IRE. Daniel had a daughter, Nora Ann Casey, who married JEREMIAH KELLEHER, and currently lives in Kilnamartyra, Macroom, Cork, IRE. Anyone recognize this line? Thanks, John (Napa, CA) ___________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com/getjuno.html or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866]

Does anyone know if a Rootsweb type site exists for researching in Derryfinnan, Co Cork, IRE? Thanks, JOHN. ___________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com/getjuno.html or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866]

<A HREF="http://www.fayettevillenc.com/foto/news/features/wedeng.shtml">Click here: Fayetteville North Carolina Online Weddings & Engagements </A> This site lists weddings and engagements. It also has thumbnail photo's. Send to whomever you like! I hope somone finds something they're looking for!!!! It would be nice if other newspapers did this as well! Can anyone bend an ear?! Desiree

Hi, I visited the LDS Family History Centre in Cheltenham yesterday but did not have any success tracing the birth of my greatgrandfather. They have some birth records for Ireland starting from about 1854 and were unable to tell me if the earlier records exist. The 1881 and 1891 census returns for Essex suggest he was born in 1847 or 1848, and the family names ( William,Frederick, Alexander ) indicate that they were probably not Catholics. Does anyone know if these records exist and who holds them? Many thanks, David Chapman, Stroud, UK.

the index for the church records say start date 1827 but actually start in the 1700s and include some deaths -----Original Message----- From: JJ Kenny <[email protected]> To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Date: 11 April 1999 06:13 Subject: Re: [FIANNA-L] Church & civil records in Boyle, Roscommon, Ireland > >Fran and Randy Weeks at<[email protected]> ask: > > > >>Good evening listers! >> Could anyone tell me the name of the Catholic church/churches in >>Boyle, County Roscommon, where a child might have been baptised circa >>1830? ......Fran Weeks > > > Fran...The Catholic records for the town of Boyle,Parish of Boyle >have a start date of 9/1827 for births and marriages 9/1828. Film copies of >these registers can be obtained from the LDS at a Family History Center near >you...Hope this is of help to you..Jim > >May God Bless You and Keep You >[email protected] > > >==== FIANNA Mailing List ==== >Irish Researchers helping Irish Researchers >Irish research in the United States and in Ireland! > >http://www.rootsweb.com/~fianna/ ***Award Winner*** Thanks to Chirho >http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Meadows/4404/ > > > > > > > >

JJ Kenny wrote: > > > > Fran...The Catholic records for the town of Boyle,Parish of Boyle > have a start date of 9/1827 > ..Hope this is of help to you..Jim > > May God Bless You and Keep You > [email protected] > > ==== FIANNA Mailing List ==== > Irish Researchers helping Irish Researchers > Irish research in the United States and in Ireland! > > http://www.rootsweb.com/~fianna/ ***Award Winner*** Thanks to Chirho > http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Meadows/4404/ Hi Jim! It is indeed of great help! There is so much to learn...thank heavens for good people like you who take the time to teach. Have a great day, and thank you. Fran

Fran and Randy Weeks at<[email protected]> ask: >Good evening listers! > Could anyone tell me the name of the Catholic church/churches in >Boyle, County Roscommon, where a child might have been baptised circa >1830? ......Fran Weeks Fran...The Catholic records for the town of Boyle,Parish of Boyle have a start date of 9/1827 for births and marriages 9/1828. Film copies of these registers can be obtained from the LDS at a Family History Center near you...Hope this is of help to you..Jim May God Bless You and Keep You [email protected]

Fran and Randy Weeks wrote: > > Dear Listers, > I'd really appreciate it if someone with CD#284 (Family Tree Maker), > 1870 Massachusetts Census, would look up Elizabeth GAVAGAN for me. I'd > be thrilled to have every tiny droplet of information that is there! > Thanks so much for your attention, and regards to all! > Fran Weeks