Question for the day: ( I haven't seen this one on Irish-NYC Digest before) Is there any other means to work with the NYC Brides and Grooms list, if one doesn't live in the vicinity, other than through the LDS Library? Genie ----- Original Message ----- From: <irish-new-york-city-request@rootsweb.com> To: <irish-new-york-city@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, February 12, 2007 4:08 AM Subject: IRISH-NEW-YORK-CITY Digest, Vol 2, Issue 22 > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Account closed (ARDFERT37@aol.com) > 2. Re: *Free* Access to GenealogyBank for Several Days (Jim Garrity) > 3. Re: Account closed (Jim Garrity) > 4. Grosse Ile - "I'ile des Irlandais" - COPPS, POWER, DOUGLAS, > ROBINSON, MILLS (Maureen) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2007 19:17:15 EST > From: ARDFERT37@aol.com > Subject: [IRISH-NYC] Account closed > To: IRISH-NEW-YORK-CITY@rootsweb.com > Message-ID: <bde.ff805db.33010c0b@aol.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" > > I was using this site earlier today and now I am not able to access it. > Barbara > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2007 19:22:43 -0500 > From: Jim Garrity <jimgarrity@earthlink.net> > Subject: Re: [IRISH-NYC] *Free* Access to GenealogyBank for Several > Days > To: irish-new-york-city@rootsweb.com > Message-ID: <45CFB353.3040806@earthlink.net> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed > > http://blog.dearmyrtle.com/2007/02/genealogybank-login-not-working-from.html > > Patrica wrote: > >>I tried over and over again. It did not work for me >>patricia >> >>-----Original Message----- >>From: irish-new-york-city-bounces@rootsweb.com >>[mailto:irish-new-york-city-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of >>ARDFERT37@aol.com >>Sent: Sunday, February 11, 2007 2:30 PM >>To: irish-new-york-city@rootsweb.com >>Subject: Re: [IRISH-NYC] *Free* Access to GenealogyBank for Several Days >> >>Hi Tom. >>Is everyone using promotion@genealogybank.com and the password GenBank4U >>to >> >>login? >>I think this will work. >>Barbara >> >>------------------------------- >>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 >> >> >> >> > > -- > -- > James Garrity > NYC Genealogy Research Service, Cemetery Research & Photography > http://www.NYCgen.com > http://www.JimGarrity.com > E-mail: JimGarrity@earthlink.net > Vice-President for Family History and Webmaster, New York Irish History > Roundtable, http://www.irishnyhistory.org > Member, Association of Professional Genealogists > Member, Godfrey Memorial Library, http://www.godfrey.org > > > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2007 23:29:32 -0500 > From: Jim Garrity <JimGarrity@earthlink.net> > Subject: Re: [IRISH-NYC] Account closed > To: irish-new-york-city@rootsweb.com > Message-ID: <45CFED2C.CF83E832@earthlink.net> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > From: > "Tom Kemp" <thomas.j.kemp@gmail.com> > To: > nynewyor@rootsweb.com > CC: > "Jim Garrity" <JimGarrity@earthlink.net> > References: > 1 , 2 > > > > > Friends, > > The response to the GenealogyBank free access offer has been huge. > Despite our planning for higher demand from the free access, the > response to the offer was so > overwhelming that we had to disable that login/password. > > > > I will be back in touch with you as I meet with the staff tomorrow > > . > > My apologies for the interruption in the free access. Many thanks for > your notes of encouragement and willingness to try out the site. > > More to follow. > > > > Tom > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 4 > Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 00:06:02 -0600 > From: "Maureen" <mcshelly2@msn.com> > Subject: [IRISH-NYC] Grosse Ile - "I'ile des Irlandais" - COPPS, > POWER, DOUGLAS, ROBINSON, MILLS > To: <irish-new-york-city@rootsweb.com>, <costello@rootsweb.com>, > <DALY-L@rootsweb.com>, <higgins@rootsweb.com> > Message-ID: <BAY120-DAV131C7A60F3C890B1D1A08FE910@phx.gbl> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > For anyone planning to visit Quebec City... and lovers of the history of > the Irish. > > Subject: [IGW] Grosse Ile - "I'ile des Irlandais" - COPPS, POWER, > DOUGLAS,ROBINSON, MILLS > > > On St. Patrick's Day, March 17, 1996, Ms. S. COPPS, Minister of > Canadian Heritage, announced her plans for the national historical site at > Grosse Ile, a small island in the St. Lawrence river, 48 kilometers > downstream from Quebec City. > > Gross Ile is the burial site of thousands of Irish immigrants who died > of cholera in 1832, and of typhus, ship fever and starvation while fleeing > from the Great Hunger in 1847. > > "From now on," said the Minister,"it will be called Grosse Ile and the > Irish Memorial." > > The only remaining hospital building from 1847, is a long wooden shed > called > the Lazaretto. White crosses mark the graves of some of the thousands of > Irish famine victims buried on the island. A tall Celtric Cross was > erected > in 1909. > > Ms. COPPS stated that the department of Canadian Heritage would clear away > the brush that had overgown the mass graves to create a place of > tranquility > and reflection. Equally important, she said, was that it was to pay > homage > to the welcome, generosity and devotion of the local population who > comforted the afflicted. > > In 1832, Grosse Ile witnessed a full-scale calamity when thousands of > Irish > died of cholera. In 1847, worse was to happen as 110,000 Irish Famine > refugees sailed up the St. Lawrence. > > The mortality rate on the coffin ships -- merchant vessels used in the > timber trade, carrying Irish passengers as paying ballast -- was one in > four. > Many of the dead were buried at sea, but thousands died on the ships, > while they were anchored in quarantine in the St. Lawrence at Grosse Ile, > or in the vastly overcrowded hospital sheds and tents on the island. > > Despite heroic efforts by the medical authorities at Grosse Ile, > particularly > Dr. George DOUGLAS, the Medical Superintendent,the suffering was dreadful. > At least 5,000 and perhaps as many as 15,000 Famine victms are buried in > the mass graves on Grosse Isle. > > The story of Grosse Ile is not just one of suffering. Just as impressive > and memorable is the remarkable generosity of spirit of the Canadians. In > addition to Dr. DOUGLAS -- who contracted typhus from the Irish Famine > victims and was seriously ill for several weeks -- the story of 1847 > abounds > with Canadian heroism. Four other doctors, five Catholic priests, three > Anglican clergymen, and 42 lay workers died tending the sick at Grosse > Ile. > The Anglican and Catholic bishops and their clergy volunteered to assist > on > the island. In Montreal, all the nuns of the Grey Sisters who tended the > Irish came down with fever, and the Mayor, John MILLS, died of typhus. > The > same fate befell Michael POWER, the first Catholic Archbishop of Toronto. > > The most astonishing part of the story, however, continues to echo in > Quebec > where Grosse Ile is still known as "I'ile des Irlandais - the Irish > island." > > The Catholic clergy arranged for the adoption of more than 2,000 children > orphaned that summer. In many cases, the children were adopted into > French > Canadian familes who allowed them to keep their own Irish family names. > Which explains, in part, how so many Irish names can still be found in > completely French-speaking areas of Quebec. > > When Mary ROBINSON, President of Ireland, visited Canada in August, 1994, > the first place on her itinerary was Grosse Ile. In a moving speech, > under > canvas in the pouring rain, she said that while the failure of the potato > was > a natural disaster across all Europe, "in Ireland it took place in a > political, > economic and social framework that was oppressive and unjust." > > Ms.ROBINSON spoke for us all when she said of Grosse Ile: "This is a > hallowed place." > > -- Excerpt, "Irish America" magazine > > > ------------------------------- > > > > ------------------------------ > > To contact the IRISH-NEW-YORK-CITY list administrator, send an email to > IRISH-NEW-YORK-CITY-admin@rootsweb.com. > > To post a message to the IRISH-NEW-YORK-CITY mailing list, send an email > to IRISH-NEW-YORK-CITY@rootsweb.com. > > __________________________________________________________ > 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 > email with no additional text. > > > End of IRISH-NEW-YORK-CITY Digest, Vol 2, Issue 22 > ************************************************** >