http://longislandgenealogy.com/Ireland/ghtindex.htm Current - October 2007 And always these to check frequently Checking land records - all counties can yield many clues http://www.rootsweb.com/~irlarchive/main.htm Great srch engine at bottom of every Here are two great sites sent in by another IRELAND-L member http://www.namethesaurus.com/Thesaurus/Search.aspx and here http://www.ireland.com/ancestor/surname/ Fascinating variations - of surname spellings and pronunciations

http://www.namethesaurus.com/Thesaurus/Search.aspx A good site, geniebugged, and I thank you for it, but it shouldn't be taken as an absolute final, last word. It gives, for example, 27 Name X- , 2910 Soundex - , and 78 Metaphone- matched equivalents to "Slowey", but doesn't find the surname "Sloan"which is a recognized variation coming from the same Celtic root. ----- Original Message ----- From: "geniebugged" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Cc: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, December 01, 2007 10:04 AM Subject: [IRELAND] Not sure if this Ireland database a help - > http://longislandgenealogy.com/Ireland/ghtindex.htm > > Current - October 2007 > > And always these to check frequently > > > Checking land records - all counties can yield many clues > > http://www.rootsweb.com/~irlarchive/main.htm > > > Great srch engine at bottom of every > > > Here are two great sites sent in by another IRELAND-L member > > http://www.namethesaurus.com/Thesaurus/Search.aspx > > and > > here http://www.ireland.com/ancestor/surname/ > > > > Fascinating variations - of surname spellings and pronunciations > > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Waiting to hear from you / Carol and Chris to get all that I have gathered to you all - have been saving in folders and Thanx for the go ahead on Sloan as that name on the Immigration Ships CD I have - back later w/more As I find these site - the first names I check are Slowey [all sp] O'Neil [all sp] and variations of Byrnes/Burns - MY Iriosh - everyone has a GGGM Named Bridget O'Neill Mimi http://www.namethesaurus.com/Thesaurus/Search.aspx A good site, geniebugged, and I thank you for it, but it shouldn't be taken as an absolute final, last word. It gives, for example, 27 Name X- , 2910 Soundex - , and 78 Metaphone- matched equivalents to "Slowey", but doesn't find the surname "Sloan"which is a recognized variation coming from the same Celtic root.