A great new website I just learned about, with information on general genealogy research plus Irish research is www.moughty.com Donna Moughty is a professional genealogist and she just started a blog on her website which contains great information, much of it from her lectures. I heard her speak at a genealogy conference and she was excellent. Very interesting and lots of practical advice. Her lectures on DVD are also available for sale. One tip she gave was to request any additional information when requesting parish records. She had an example (which is included in one of her blogs) of a marriage certificate from St. Bernards parish in NYC (now St. Bernards at Our Lady of Guadalupe) that had a letter attached from the pastor of the parish in Ireland certifying that the person was baptized in the Catholic Church. It included the specific location in Ireland! By the way, I can confirm that St. Bernards at Our Lady of Guadalupe has been very good at providing records of baptisms. Melanie

Melanie, this is a wonderful site! Thanks!! Bev W -----Original Message----- From: Melanie Egan <megan@cfl.rr.com> To: irish-new-york-city@rootsweb.com Sent: Fri, 4 Jan 2008 9:56 pm Subject: Re: [IRISH-NYC] General Genealogy Information A great new website I just learned about, with information on general genealogy research plus Irish research is www.moughty.com Donna Moughty is a professional genealogist and she just started a blog on her website which contains great information, much of it from her lectures. I heard her speak at a genealogy conference and she was excellent. Very interesting and lots of practical advice. Her lectures on DVD are also available for sale. One tip she gave was to request any additional information when requesting parish records. She had an example (which is included in one of her blogs) of a marriage certificate from St. Bernards parish in NYC (now St. Bernards at Our Lady of Guadalupe) that had a letter attached from the pastor of the parish in Ireland certifying that the person was baptized in the Catholic Church. It included the specific location in Ireland! By the way, I can confirm that St. Bernards at Our Lady of Guadalupe has been very good at providing records of baptisms. Melanie ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to IRISH-NEW-YORK-CITY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ________________________________________________________________________ More new features than ever. Check out the new AOL Mail ! - http://webmail.aol.com