Maryann, There will always be someone to rain of a parade, no matter the reason for the parade. Keep up the good work!!! You are doing fine even if you are overworked. Julie Kauker ----- Original Message ----- From: "Maryann Arnold" <marnold@Princeton.EDU> To: <IRELAND-OBITS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, September 29, 2003 8:00 AM Subject: Re: [IRL-OBITS] appropriatness of Landowner lookups > First, let me apologize to all the "obits" list subscribers > who are getting bombarded with unwanted emails about look > ups. I would be the first to agree how annoying it is to > receive lots of emails that don't pertain to the list or > things of interest. It was never my intent to inundate > everyone but it has snowballed because it is a new > "resource" for many people. > > Second, I will be happy to continue doing look ups for > anyone if you will send an email directly to me, not to the > list. Given the number of requests it may take me a few > days to get back to everyone, but I will respond. > > Third, Mr. Ahern is correct that many Irish citizens didn't > own 1 acre or more until the land acts in 1903 and 1907 when > they purchased the land they were tenants on or increased > their holdings from less than 1 acre. > > Fourth, Mr. Ahern is correct that the Griffith's Valuation > is an excellent resource with more details than my book > provides, but the book is of a little later period than the > GV so it may have information that wasn't in the GV for a > particular area. > > Again my apologies to everyone, there is no need to "choose > sides" in the debate because those that want information can > contact me directly and everyone will be happy. > > Maryann > > Dennis Ahern wrote: > > > > James Huey <genealogy@australiamail.com> 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 ==== > > The list arcives can be found by visiting ~ > > http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/intl/IRL/IRELAND-OBITS.html > > > > ============================== > > 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 > > > ==== 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 > >