James, Thank you. :) Shannah ----- Original Message ----- From: "James Huey" <genealogy@australiamail.com> To: <IRELAND-OBITS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, September 28, 2003 12:32 AM Subject: [IRL-OBITS] Re: appropriatness of Landowner lookups > Thanks, Dennis. > > In fact people can do their own lookups !!! > > Go to this web-site, and they are there, county by county !! pdf images of the book !! > > http://members.cox.net/hayes1966/lo1876.htm > > No need to ask anyone else to do the looking .. (and this list can get back to Obits) > > James > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Dennis Ahern > Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2003 01:43:42 -0400 > To: IRELAND-OBITS-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: appropriatness of Landowner lookups > > > > > James Huey said > > > > >At the risk of being bombed as a "party-pooper", (or being jumped on by > > >the list-owner), I thought this was a list to post Obituaries found in > > >Irish records. Lookups for Landowner lists, and queries about specific > > >County records which are NOT obituaries, should go to other more > > >appropriate lists. > > > > I second that emotion. What people need to realize is that the book > > "Land Owners in Ireland; Return of Owners of Land of One Acre and > > Upwards in the several Counties, Counties of Cities, and Counties of > > Towns In Ireland" is a very limited in scope. It is not as extensive a > > list as Griffith's Valuation, for example. Only a small percentage of > > landowners had more than one acre. All of the Aherns in Ireland are shown > > at http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~aherns/ahloii.htm#landowners for > > example and they total 15 persons, or 14 actually as Charles Ahern owns > > land in two different counties. I would suggest that in future anyone > > with a lookup request, contact Maryann directly. You might also find that > > this book is available at a public Library near you. > > > > -dja > > > ==== IRELAND-OBITS Mailing List ==== > To unsubscribe, send a new e-mail with just the word - unsubscribe - in the message to ~ IRELAND-OBITS-L-request@rootsweb.com substituting a -D- for the -L- if in 'Digest' mode. > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 >