Thanks to all for their recommendations. The Quigley "curraveha" <curraveha2@gmail.com> wrote in message news:hr9s6r$ao2$1@speranza.aioe.org... > Roots Magic is $ 29.00 and allows you to include photos and other media > items as well as the ability > to create a read only cd of your family history to send to other family > members. > > "Question Quigley" <dontsendme@nomail.com> wrote in message > news:hr899v$u8q$3@news.eternal-september.org... >> Can anyone recommend some genealogy software, preferably freeware, or >> some other application to get my family history organized? >> >> Thanks, >> >> The Quigley >> > >

On Tue, 27 Apr 2010 02:26:38 -0400, Mick <mickg01@verizon.net> wrote: >The fact that FamilySearch has a great deal of information that is not >available on Ancestry doesn't mean it automatically has all the >information that IS available on Ancestry. > >There are caveats due to the nature of FamilySearch and how much of its >information is gathered. You need to learn how to use it and what is >reliable and what is less so. However it is a valuable research source. >I tend to go for other verification once FamilySearch data gives me new >information to follow up on. I don't expect it to have all of the information but am trying to determine what I'm doing wrong since I can never get anything to come up even though it seems like they should like, i would assume, census information. Ancestry comes up with many possible hits, usually too many, but familysearch comes up with 0.

Roots Magic is $ 29.00 and allows you to include photos and other media items as well as the ability to create a read only cd of your family history to send to other family members. "Question Quigley" <dontsendme@nomail.com> wrote in message news:hr899v$u8q$3@news.eternal-september.org... > Can anyone recommend some genealogy software, preferably freeware, or some > other application to get my family history organized? > > Thanks, > > The Quigley >

See: http://www.butler-soc.org/ The Butler Society

Be careful bout compatibility issues if you are using up to date Macintosh Apple equipment Michael DANAHY http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/d/a/n/Michael-C-Danahy/index.html RESEARCHING IN MA (Hopkinton), IRE, ENG ALDRICH http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~aldrichnaa/ (one m SMITH, earlier ones m CASAVANT, COMEE, http://www.familyorigins.com/users/e/v/a/Jeanne-C-Evans LOVELL, PRAY, PRENTICE, RAWSON, SEALD, THAYER); http://members.xoom.com/jaldrich/Lines/Michael.htm Aldrich Family biographies, go to http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/FamilyAssociation/AldrichBios or go to http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~aldrich/ CASAVANT (who m MORAN); CURRAN (who m DANAHY) DANAHY (b. in Hopkinton and who m LENAN, siblings m. TOLAN, JOHNSON, O'CONNOR) LENAN (who m O"BRIEN); SMITH (who m CASEY); PRENTICE (who m ALDRICH) http://www.prenticenet.com/roots/prentice/robert/#R4 RAWSON (one m ALLEN, later one TORREY) http://www.rawsonfamilyassoc.org/ THAYER (Thomas m WHEELER, son Ferdinando m HAYWARD); http://thayerfamilies.com/thomas-line.htm On Apr 28, 2010, at 2:08 AM, Renia wrote: > Question Quigley wrote: >> Can anyone recommend some genealogy software, preferably freeware, >> or some >> other application to get my family history organized? > > You could try PAF at FamilySearch > > http://www.familysearch.org/eng/default.asp > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GENIRE- > request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message

Question Quigley wrote: > Can anyone recommend some genealogy software, preferably freeware, or some > other application to get my family history organized? You could try PAF at FamilySearch http://www.familysearch.org/eng/default.asp

Can anyone recommend some genealogy software, preferably freeware, or some other application to get my family history organized? Thanks, The Quigley

Iam researching my gggrandmother Catherine Butler. She emigrated to NZ in 1873. I am wanting to research her family and have her parents as William Butler/Buttler and mother Alice Burke but have been unable to locate them at all. The father was a farmer but I am very doubtful that they were at all wealthy. Any help would be appreciated. Karen

>From The Cork Examiner, 21 October 1878 - LIMERICK INTELLIGENCE. ------------ (FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT.) Limerick, Saturday Evening. ATTEMPTED SUICIDE. Last night an old man named Ahern, lodging at a house in Fitzgerald's Court, Lower Cornwallis-street, was, shortly after retiring to his room to go to bed, heard speaking in a loud voice and using such words as "I'll do it," &c. A woman rushed up stairs and entering the room found the unfortunate man hacking himself with a razor. Blood was issuing freely from one of his legs, the right arm was also cut. The woman gave an alarm, but although a crowd collected no one had the courage to enter and protect the suicide from himself. The police having been communicated with, Acting-constable Wells and Sub-constable Rolleston arrived just in time to prevent Ahern cutting his throat, which he was attempting just as they seized hold of him. He was taken to the William street Police station and conveyed from thence to the Workhouse hospital, where he was placed under the care of Dr. M. O'Connor. When sufficiently recovered he will be brought before the magistrates. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dennis Ahern | Ireland Newspaper Abstracts Acton, Massachusetts | http://www.IrelandOldNews.com - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

On 04/26/2010 09:13 PM, Brian wrote: > On Mon, 26 Apr 2010 12:58:34 +1000, Robert G Eldridge > <robert.eldridge@hunterlink.net.au> wrote: > >> On Sun, 25 Apr 2010 19:26:12 -0400, Brian<drmorrisnospam@comcast.net> >> wrote: >> >>> Will familysearch have any information that isn't available through a >>> subscription to ancestry.com? >> >> They already do. > > Are you saying familysearch does have other information? I haven't > been able to find any information about my ancestors even when I know > there is information in censuses and other places. The fact that FamilySearch has a great deal of information that is not available on Ancestry doesn't mean it automatically has all the information that IS available on Ancestry. There are caveats due to the nature of FamilySearch and how much of its information is gathered. You need to learn how to use it and what is reliable and what is less so. However it is a valuable research source. I tend to go for other verification once FamilySearch data gives me new information to follow up on.

On Mon, 26 Apr 2010 12:58:34 +1000, Robert G Eldridge <robert.eldridge@hunterlink.net.au> wrote: >On Sun, 25 Apr 2010 19:26:12 -0400, Brian <drmorrisnospam@comcast.net> >wrote: > >>Will familysearch have any information that isn't available through a >>subscription to ancestry.com? > >They already do. Are you saying familysearch does have other information? I haven't been able to find any information about my ancestors even when I know there is information in censuses and other places.

On Sun, 25 Apr 2010 19:26:12 -0400, Brian <drmorrisnospam@comcast.net> wrote: >Will familysearch have any information that isn't available through a >subscription to ancestry.com? They already do. -- Robert G. Eldridge Toronto NSW Australia http://www.eldridgegenealogy.org Now researching ELDRIDGE families world wide 1000s at my Web site *Wanted* Any Eldridge related information

On Fri, 23 Apr 2010 11:07:44 -0500, "Dora Smith" <tiggernut24@yahoo.com> wrote: >>From another list: > >Great news, Familysearch are launching a new record search beta at the end >of the month. They sent me the link and asked me to test it. It is not the >final product. The advanced search option looks great. > > I have to share with my good friends on Fermanagh-Gold > > http://fsbeta.familysearch.org > > All the Irish records are there. > > Brendan > > >Yours, >Dora Smith >Austin, TX >tiggernut24@yahoo.com Will familysearch have any information that isn't available through a subscription to ancestry.com?

See: http://genforum.genealogy.com/mcmahon/ McMahon Family Genealogy Forum http://www.orgsites.com/ca/clanmacmahon/ Clan McMahon Association

A Chairde, Further to the piece published in the April issue of ‘Ireland’s Genealogical Gazette’ please find, hereunder, an extended version of the lead article including more details on the suggestions proffered by the Genealogical Society of Ireland. Dr. Peter Crooks of Trinity College Dublin has to be warmly congratulated on the enormous turnout at the public meeting held in TCD on Saturday April 10th 2010. The meeting was called to highlight the very serious implications of the Government’s proposed amalgamation of the National Archives, National Library and the Irish Manuscripts Commission. Although announced in 2008 as a ’budgetary measure’ this proposed merger, as currently envisaged, could be enormously costly and hugely disruptive. This huge meeting was moderated by Prof. Diarmaid Ferriter of University College Dublin and was addressed in turn by Irish Society of Archivists representative, Caitríona Crowe, Irish Times columnist, Fintan O’Toole, and TCD Professor Eunan O’Halpin. These presentations were followed by numerous contributions from the floor dealing with all aspects of Irish archival heritage. Genealogical Society of Ireland Board member, Séamus O’Reilly, raised the serious and anomalous position of the records of the Irish Land Commission which have been moved from the National Archives building in Dublin to a storage facility in Co. Laois. These important records are ‘closed’ to the public, however, a very short Bill could deal with all the imagined or real legal impediments to having the Irish Land Commission records declared public records. Speaker after speaker condemned the apparent lack of any detailed analysis of the implications of the proposed merger before it was announced as Government policy in October 2008. No cost-benefit analysis, no comparative study, no comprehensive plan and yet, ‘Heads of a Bill’ have been prepared according to various speakers. Others focused on the need for the Minister to appoint the National Archives Advisory Council (NAAC) under Section 20 of the National Archives Act, 1986, which hasn’t been constituted since 2007. However, if the Minister was to accede to this request now, ironically it could simply render the TCD initiative redundant as the proposed merger could be discussed by the ‘few appointees’ behind closed doors. Indeed, with the Board of the National Library of Ireland and its committees due to complete their first five year terms next month, a long overdue opportunity now exists to open up the membership of these bodies to representatives of academic institutions and of the ordinary users of both the National Library and the National Archives. Whilst many organisations used the opportunity to publicly air their grievances and their concerns regarding the state of Irish archives, making the contribution on behalf of the Genealogical Society of Ireland, I focused on a strategic response to the proposed merger. Firstly, the Society cautioned against an open confrontation with the new Minister Mary Hanafin, TD, on this so called ’budgetary measure’ as a cooperative approach may prove more effective. Secondly, the Society urged the meeting to welcome the possibilities afforded by the required new legislation to deal with the many issues raised. For example, to update the National Archives Act, 1986 to possibly deal with: + Electronic data + Records of Quangodom + 30 Year Rule + Historic Medical Records + Land Commission Records + Places of Deposit + Digitisation + General Access And the National Cultural Institutions Act, 1997 to possibly deal with: + Electronic data + Web publishing + Heraldic services + Acquisitions policy + Digitisation + General access New legislation offers possibilities to update and to radically overhaul the State’s archival policies and to improve and expand the services offered. Thirdly, the GSI proffered the idea of ’legislative amalgamation’ that ensures the ’maintenance of the separate functions and identities’ of the National Archives and the National Library as two independently functioning institutions as follows:- + Maintenance of identity and function + Administrative savings + Coordinated policies + Expansion of services + Accountable governance – including academic and Sectoral representation. + Commitment to public’s right of free access + Targeted investment in digitisation. + Commitment to serve our Diaspora + Maintenance of a national inventory of archival collections. + Increased powers in respect to places of deposit, standards of maintenance and prohibition on export. + Framework for ongoing consultation & cooperation with the Universities and Institutes of Technology. + Provisions for the archiving of web based publications. + Provisions to ensure that records generated by ‘Quangodom’ are included. + Reduction in the 30 year rule. + Amending the Statistics, 1993 Act to allow access to Census Records after 70 years. + End the anomaly regarding the Land Commission records. + Provide for the State’s delivery of heraldic services. + Provide for a structured review every ten years to keep pace with technology and usage trends. Finally, the GSI insisted that the first objective of the proposed ’Action Committee’ should be to demand a meaningful public consultation process in advance of the production of any draft legislation. The GSI would propose that the Minister should seek submissions from the public and interested bodies on, for example, the following: + Services at the National Archives in the 21st century. + Archival Policy (other archival resources etc) + Accessibility (30 Year Rule etc) + Digitisation + Local Authority & State Agency Archives + Archives held by private institutions + Places of Deposit + Governance + Standing Advisory Committees / User Committees + Links to Third Level Colleges + Education and Outreach Policy, including services to our Diaspora + Services at the National Library in the 21st century. + Acquisitions Policy + Accessibility + Digitisation + Special Collections (Film, Photographic, Ephemera etc) + Heraldic Services + Governance + Standing Advisory Committees / User Committees + Links to Third Level Colleges + Education and Outreach, including services to our Diaspora As the latter point was the last contribution from the floor, after the meeting many attendees expressed their support for the constructive approach advocated by the Genealogical Society of Ireland. As a totally independent genealogical organisation, arguably the most experienced in legislative matters, the Society has sought membership of the ’Action Committee’. The GSI views this issue as an immensely important opportunity for legislative reform offering a bright future for both the National Library and the National Archives. Michael Merrigan General Secretary GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY OF IRELAND www.familyhistory.ie

M Black wrote: > I looked at the familysearch.org website last night for the first time > in a long time and found that the Irish record indexes have disappeared > from their pilot site. I can still see them.

I am seeking any information on a Patrick Maughn. (born circa 1820). He was a passenger on the Asscendant which arrived in Adelaide 15th Jan 1851. He married a fellow passenger, Dora Nolan 17th Jan 1851 as Patrick Mahon. By the time that had arrived in Victoria circa 1852 he had become Patrick McMahon. I know that Dora was from Rathdrum Wicklow and the shipping records list Pat as being from Wicklow, possibly Corbellis. Dora was the daughter of Stephen Nowlan & Elizabeth Farrell from Drumgoff. I would love to hear from anyone with information on either of these two families. I have a RC Baptism record, with the baptisms of children of Ross Mahon & Biddy Doyle. One is for Pat Mahon 8.3.1823 in the parish of Rathdrum at Ballard South. His godparents were John Byrne and Mary Felming. His siblings were Bridget 1817, Ann 1820, Eliza 1825 and Ross 1828. The latter two were baptised at Killaveney. Is there any that I can find out if this Patrick is mine? Is anyone researching this family?

Ayatollah Steve Hayes issued the fatwa that follows against >> >> HOW TO CALCULATE THE DAY OF THE WEEK FOR JULIAN DATES AS OF 1.iii.IV >> - via Hans' E-Z Wondrous 2-Fold 3-Step 4-Function Calculator Method - >If you don't want to be seen as a spammer, don't multipost. > > If you weren't a netnazi and a thread-mangler, you wouldn't cross- -post to separated threads, nor make condemnatory statements as if the Julian calendar wasn't officially recognised till WWI over vast areas such as the Ottoman and Russian Empires--and not just for use by Eastern Rite Churches. Thus, s.g.slavic shouldn't have been dropped. Nor should s.g.west-indies, as the Old Style calendar was in use there well into the 1700s. Real genealogists want to know the weekday of events in such places. You obviously don't, and so didn't have the decency to read the entire post to find out that it was neither spam nor misposted.

Dora Smith <tiggernut24@yahoo.com> wrote: > http://fsbeta.familysearch.org Excellent. Thank you.

I looked at the familysearch.org website last night for the first time in a long time and found that the Irish record indexes have disappeared from their pilot site. The Philadelphia death records have lost the images that used to be there as well. Is something happening there?