Good Morning Ron: In this colony butter & margarine are sold by the pound [16 ounces]and packaged in pound amounts or, more conveniently, wrapped in 4 separate quarter sections, each 4 ounces. So, 1.5 quarters would be 6 ounces. Slante, Jack Sweeney up and awake but not too bushy, in Palmer, Pennsylvania.

I recall from my very early childhood that each St. Patrick's Day included corned beef, cabbage and boiled potatoes. My mother used to say that her Irish side of the family (Irvines) made this menu a staple for their St. Patty's Day celebration. Until about 2 years ago, I had no idea that my Irish heritage would be so far-flung and seemingly all-encompassing! O'Connors, Somervilles, Cogans, Irvines.....each day of my search seems to "dig up" another branch either in Leeds, England, or some small town here in the States. One of my dear cousins in Castleisland even sent me a small packet of peat so that I could be afforded the pleasure of knowing what my gg grandfather's home in Gortglass might have smelled like. She also sent me a small stone from the bohreen (sp?) on gg grandfather Daniel O'Connor's farm so I'd always have a piece of Kerry with me. We Kerry cousins are not gone....we are just busy continuing our wonderful - sometimes tearful - journey which will, hopefully, culminate in bringing the past alive by finding "new" family members. By the way, I am finishing up "The Star of the Sea" by Joseph O'Connor. If anyone wants to know what it was like for a lot of our families during the famine years, it is money well-spent. Heart-wrenching and hopeful at the same time....a story of courage, despair and faith. Happy St. Patrick's Day to us all - and may the road rise up to meet you; may the wind be always at your back. SallyAnn (O'Connor) McChesney Ohio, USA irl-kerry-request@rootsweb.com wrote: Today's Topics: 1. Re: Where are you all? Happy St. Pat's Day (MonicaBOS@aol.com) 2. Re: Where are you all? Happy St. Pat's Day (Ann O'Hara) 3. Irish Soda Bread (John L. Sweeney) Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 19:05:23 -0400 (EDT) From: MonicaBOS@aol.com Subject: Re: [IRL-KERRY] Where are you all? Happy St. Pat's Day To: raymarsh@mninter.net, KerryKuzzin@cs.com, IRL-Kerry@rootsweb.com Ha! No Holy Week is going to slow down the festivities here in Boston! We are a very stubborn lot. Monica In a message dated 3/9/2008 9:54:06 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, raymarsh@mninter.net writes: Well, who better to kick out the Kerry List's annual celebration of our national feast day than Marge, our "Kerry Kuzzin" from the land of cars and swimming pools. Since Easter is the earliest it has been for something like 150 years (First Sunday after the First Full Moon after the Vernal Equinox, if you really must know), St Patrick's day falls on the Monday of Holy Week this year. In theory. But the Catholic church frowns on feasts and celebrations during Holy Week, so in the Archdiocese of St Paul and Minneapolis, our day is now being celebrated on Saturday, March 15. Businesses, if they haven't run into reservation problems, like the idea because a Saturday will bring out more people for our (puny) parades and pack our bars. Purists with totally green blood, are aghast. Any reactions where you live? Ray Marshall Minneapolis Searching Reidy, Loughnane, McAuliffe, Hartnett, Aherne and Flynn from Kerry Searching Scanlon and Carney from either Cork or Waterford. Searching Marszalkiewicz from Budziszewko -----Original Message----- From: irl-kerry-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:irl-kerry-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of KerryKuzzin@cs.com Sent: Sunday, March 09, 2008 1:14 AM To: IRL-Kerry@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [IRL-KERRY] Where are you all? Happy St. Pat's Day Here we are coming up to St. Patrick's Day and everyone on this list is taking time off from searching their ancestors? No soda bread recipes? No discussion of the leprechaun webcam? (thank God) Did you all start celebrating early? I, for one, will be searching the Casey collection tomorrow in hopes of finding some new tidbit of information. It should be a breeze, after all I'm looking for those very UNUSUAL names of SULLIVAN, SHEA, O'CONNOR, KELLY and that very COMMON one of GOLDEN. :) But I do have a clue - they were from Kerry! A little jest there! Actually, the Sullivan/Shea family was from CoarhaBeg on Valentia and my Goldens were in Killinane in 1871. So, Ray, if you are paying attention here - do you have any useful tips to give me? I have not yet found that 16,000,000 name index. It seems to me that every volume has several indexes of names. One for each set of records in each volume. Tomorrow I will remember to take with me my very good magnifying glass, my maps of where my family was, my laptop (and I will move the files that I need onto it). Is there anything that I am forgetting? Just in case some of you only check in once this week, I will say Happy St. Patrick's Day now. Marge in Southern California ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to IRL-KERRY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message **************It's Tax Time! Get tips, forms, and advice on AOL Money & Finance. (http://money.aol.com/tax?NCID=aolprf00030000000001) Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 19:10:51 -0400 From: "Ann O'Hara" <yannster@ptd.net> Subject: Re: [IRL-KERRY] Where are you all? Happy St. Pat's Day To: <MonicaBOS@aol.com>, <raymarsh@mninter.net>, <KerryKuzzin@cs.com>, <IRL-Kerry@rootsweb.com> The bars in Scranton, PA have been asked to wait until 9 am to open on parade day. Some will comply. ----- Original Message ----- From: To: ; ; Sent: Monday, March 10, 2008 7:05 PM Subject: Re: [IRL-KERRY] Where are you all? Happy St. Pat's Day > Ha! No Holy Week is going to slow down the festivities here in Boston! We > are a very stubborn lot. > > Monica > > > In a message dated 3/9/2008 9:54:06 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, > raymarsh@mninter.net writes: > > > Well, who better to kick out the Kerry List's annual celebration of our > national feast day than Marge, our "Kerry Kuzzin" from the land of cars > and swimming pools. > > Since Easter is the earliest it has been for something like 150 years > (First Sunday after the First Full Moon after the Vernal Equinox, if you > really must know), St Patrick's day falls on the Monday of Holy Week > this year. In theory. > > But the Catholic church frowns on feasts and celebrations during Holy > Week, so in the Archdiocese of St Paul and Minneapolis, our day is now > being celebrated on Saturday, March 15. > > Businesses, if they haven't run into reservation problems, like the idea > because a Saturday will bring out more people for our (puny) parades and > pack our bars. Purists with totally green blood, are aghast. > > Any reactions where you live? > > > Ray Marshall > Minneapolis > Searching Reidy, Loughnane, McAuliffe, Hartnett, Aherne and Flynn from > Kerry > Searching Scanlon and Carney from either Cork or Waterford. > Searching Marszalkiewicz from Budziszewko > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: irl-kerry-bounces@rootsweb.com > [mailto:irl-kerry-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of KerryKuzzin@cs.com > Sent: Sunday, March 09, 2008 1:14 AM > To: IRL-Kerry@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [IRL-KERRY] Where are you all? Happy St. Pat's Day > > > > Here we are coming up to St. Patrick's Day and everyone on this list is > taking time off from searching their ancestors? No soda bread recipes? > No > discussion of the leprechaun webcam? (thank God) Did you all start > celebrating early? > > I, for one, will be searching the Casey collection tomorrow in hopes of > finding some new tidbit of information. It should be a breeze, after all > I'm > looking for those very UNUSUAL names of SULLIVAN, SHEA, O'CONNOR, KELLY > and that > very COMMON one of GOLDEN. :) But I do have a clue - they were from > Kerry! A > little jest there! Actually, the Sullivan/Shea family was from CoarhaBeg > on > Valentia and my Goldens were in Killinane in 1871. > > So, Ray, if you are paying attention here - do you have any useful tips > to > give me? I have not yet found that 16,000,000 name index. It seems to me > that > every volume has several indexes of names. One for each set of records > in each > volume. Tomorrow I will remember to take with me my very good magnifying > glass, > my maps of where my family was, my laptop (and I will move the files > that I > need onto it). Is there anything that I am forgetting? > > Just in case some of you only check in once this week, I will say Happy > St. > Patrick's Day now. > > Marge in Southern California > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > IRL-KERRY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and > the body of the message > > > > > > **************It's Tax Time! Get tips, forms, and advice on AOL Money & > Finance. (http://money.aol.com/tax?NCID=aolprf00030000000001) > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > IRL-KERRY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 19:29:23 -0400 From: "John L. Sweeney" <sweelab@enter.net> Subject: [IRL-KERRY] Irish Soda Bread To: <IRL-Kerry@rootsweb.com> It's that time again. Usually about once a year around March 10th. Irish Soda Bread: Kerry Recipe. Get yourself 2 lovely bowls. One of them should be able to hold about a fluid gallon. The other need not be as large, half the size would be adequate. Find a strong wooden spoon and a decent whisk. Clear about a square yard [square meter] of a table in the kitchen, near the oven. The oven ought to be on and set for 350°F and be heating up while you make the bread. You’ll be making 2 loaves now, because both the recipe and experience require that amount. You could halve the recipe but the frustration and disappointment aren’t worth not having another loaf to eat after you’ve consumed the first. So, be good to yourself and your loved ones and make two. You’ll thank me for the suggestion. In the smaller of the two bowls put all the wets. In the larger bowl put all the drys. Larger bowl: 6 cups of sifted flour, white if your children are American’s, brown is OK, 6 teaspoons of baking powder. Small bowl: 1 cup of sugar, 3 cups of milk, 3 nice eggs, 1.5 quarters of softened margarine or butter. Using the whisk stir the wets until they’re all nicely blended. Take a whole box of raisins [that’s about 15 ounces] and dump them into the drys, use the wooden spoon and mix them evenly through the flour and baking powder. Now, add the wets to the drys and mix your concoction until the mass has the consistency of a cake batter. [That’s what it is after all]. You’ll have two 9 inch round bake pans ready for business with their insides greased and floured so the Irish Soda Bread doesn’t stick because it will, you know, unless you do something about it. Now, using the head God gave you for the purpose, dump half the cake mix into the pan on the left and the other half into the pan on the right. Put the two pans into the middle of the oven cook them for 45 minutes to an hour until a knife plunged into the center comes out clean of any cake mix sticking to it. You can use a tooth-pick but you’ll burn your fingers because they’re too short. If you’ve followed the instructions the Irish Soda Bread will be about 3 to 4 inches high. When the bread has cooled, make your self a nice cup of tea, get some butter and have a go at your creation. You’ll love it! To contact the IRL-KERRY list administrator, send an email to IRL-KERRY-admin@rootsweb.com. To post a message to the IRL-KERRY mailing list, send an email to IRL-KERRY@rootsweb.com. __________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to IRL-KERRY-request@rootsweb.com with the word "unsubscribe" without the quotes in the subject and the body of the email with no additional text.

It's that time again. Usually about once a year around March 10th. Irish Soda Bread: Kerry Recipe. Get yourself 2 lovely bowls. One of them should be able to hold about a fluid gallon. The other need not be as large, half the size would be adequate. Find a strong wooden spoon and a decent whisk. Clear about a square yard [square meter] of a table in the kitchen, near the oven. The oven ought to be on and set for 350°F and be heating up while you make the bread. You’ll be making 2 loaves now, because both the recipe and experience require that amount. You could halve the recipe but the frustration and disappointment aren’t worth not having another loaf to eat after you’ve consumed the first. So, be good to yourself and your loved ones and make two. You’ll thank me for the suggestion. In the smaller of the two bowls put all the wets. In the larger bowl put all the drys. Larger bowl: 6 cups of sifted flour, white if your children are American’s, brown is OK, 6 teaspoons of baking powder. Small bowl: 1 cup of sugar, 3 cups of milk, 3 nice eggs, 1.5 quarters of softened margarine or butter. Using the whisk stir the wets until they’re all nicely blended. Take a whole box of raisins [that’s about 15 ounces] and dump them into the drys, use the wooden spoon and mix them evenly through the flour and baking powder. Now, add the wets to the drys and mix your concoction until the mass has the consistency of a cake batter. [That’s what it is after all]. You’ll have two 9 inch round bake pans ready for business with their insides greased and floured so the Irish Soda Bread doesn’t stick because it will, you know, unless you do something about it. Now, using the head God gave you for the purpose, dump half the cake mix into the pan on the left and the other half into the pan on the right. Put the two pans into the middle of the oven cook them for 45 minutes to an hour until a knife plunged into the center comes out clean of any cake mix sticking to it. You can use a tooth-pick but you’ll burn your fingers because they’re too short. If you’ve followed the instructions the Irish Soda Bread will be about 3 to 4 inches high. When the bread has cooled, make your self a nice cup of tea, get some butter and have a go at your creation. You’ll love it!

The bars in Scranton, PA have been asked to wait until 9 am to open on parade day. Some will comply. ----- Original Message ----- From: <MonicaBOS@aol.com> To: <raymarsh@mninter.net>; <KerryKuzzin@cs.com>; <IRL-Kerry@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, March 10, 2008 7:05 PM Subject: Re: [IRL-KERRY] Where are you all? Happy St. Pat's Day > Ha! No Holy Week is going to slow down the festivities here in Boston! We > are a very stubborn lot. > > Monica > > > In a message dated 3/9/2008 9:54:06 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, > raymarsh@mninter.net writes: > > > Well, who better to kick out the Kerry List's annual celebration of our > national feast day than Marge, our "Kerry Kuzzin" from the land of cars > and swimming pools. > > Since Easter is the earliest it has been for something like 150 years > (First Sunday after the First Full Moon after the Vernal Equinox, if you > really must know), St Patrick's day falls on the Monday of Holy Week > this year. In theory. > > But the Catholic church frowns on feasts and celebrations during Holy > Week, so in the Archdiocese of St Paul and Minneapolis, our day is now > being celebrated on Saturday, March 15. > > Businesses, if they haven't run into reservation problems, like the idea > because a Saturday will bring out more people for our (puny) parades and > pack our bars. Purists with totally green blood, are aghast. > > Any reactions where you live? > > > Ray Marshall > Minneapolis > Searching Reidy, Loughnane, McAuliffe, Hartnett, Aherne and Flynn from > Kerry > Searching Scanlon and Carney from either Cork or Waterford. > Searching Marszalkiewicz from Budziszewko > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: irl-kerry-bounces@rootsweb.com > [mailto:irl-kerry-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of KerryKuzzin@cs.com > Sent: Sunday, March 09, 2008 1:14 AM > To: IRL-Kerry@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [IRL-KERRY] Where are you all? Happy St. Pat's Day > > > > Here we are coming up to St. Patrick's Day and everyone on this list is > taking time off from searching their ancestors? No soda bread recipes? > No > discussion of the leprechaun webcam? (thank God) Did you all start > celebrating early? > > I, for one, will be searching the Casey collection tomorrow in hopes of > finding some new tidbit of information. It should be a breeze, after all > I'm > looking for those very UNUSUAL names of SULLIVAN, SHEA, O'CONNOR, KELLY > and that > very COMMON one of GOLDEN. :) But I do have a clue - they were from > Kerry! A > little jest there! Actually, the Sullivan/Shea family was from CoarhaBeg > on > Valentia and my Goldens were in Killinane in 1871. > > So, Ray, if you are paying attention here - do you have any useful tips > to > give me? I have not yet found that 16,000,000 name index. It seems to me > that > every volume has several indexes of names. One for each set of records > in each > volume. Tomorrow I will remember to take with me my very good magnifying > glass, > my maps of where my family was, my laptop (and I will move the files > that I > need onto it). Is there anything that I am forgetting? > > Just in case some of you only check in once this week, I will say Happy > St. > Patrick's Day now. > > Marge in Southern California > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > IRL-KERRY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and > the body of the message > > > > > > **************It's Tax Time! Get tips, forms, and advice on AOL Money & > Finance. (http://money.aol.com/tax?NCID=aolprf00030000000001) > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > IRL-KERRY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > >

Ha! No Holy Week is going to slow down the festivities here in Boston! We are a very stubborn lot. Monica In a message dated 3/9/2008 9:54:06 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, raymarsh@mninter.net writes: Well, who better to kick out the Kerry List's annual celebration of our national feast day than Marge, our "Kerry Kuzzin" from the land of cars and swimming pools. Since Easter is the earliest it has been for something like 150 years (First Sunday after the First Full Moon after the Vernal Equinox, if you really must know), St Patrick's day falls on the Monday of Holy Week this year. In theory. But the Catholic church frowns on feasts and celebrations during Holy Week, so in the Archdiocese of St Paul and Minneapolis, our day is now being celebrated on Saturday, March 15. Businesses, if they haven't run into reservation problems, like the idea because a Saturday will bring out more people for our (puny) parades and pack our bars. Purists with totally green blood, are aghast. Any reactions where you live? Ray Marshall Minneapolis Searching Reidy, Loughnane, McAuliffe, Hartnett, Aherne and Flynn from Kerry Searching Scanlon and Carney from either Cork or Waterford. Searching Marszalkiewicz from Budziszewko -----Original Message----- From: irl-kerry-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:irl-kerry-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of KerryKuzzin@cs.com Sent: Sunday, March 09, 2008 1:14 AM To: IRL-Kerry@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [IRL-KERRY] Where are you all? Happy St. Pat's Day Here we are coming up to St. Patrick's Day and everyone on this list is taking time off from searching their ancestors? No soda bread recipes? No discussion of the leprechaun webcam? (thank God) Did you all start celebrating early? I, for one, will be searching the Casey collection tomorrow in hopes of finding some new tidbit of information. It should be a breeze, after all I'm looking for those very UNUSUAL names of SULLIVAN, SHEA, O'CONNOR, KELLY and that very COMMON one of GOLDEN. :) But I do have a clue - they were from Kerry! A little jest there! Actually, the Sullivan/Shea family was from CoarhaBeg on Valentia and my Goldens were in Killinane in 1871. So, Ray, if you are paying attention here - do you have any useful tips to give me? I have not yet found that 16,000,000 name index. It seems to me that every volume has several indexes of names. One for each set of records in each volume. Tomorrow I will remember to take with me my very good magnifying glass, my maps of where my family was, my laptop (and I will move the files that I need onto it). Is there anything that I am forgetting? Just in case some of you only check in once this week, I will say Happy St. Patrick's Day now. Marge in Southern California ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to IRL-KERRY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message **************It's Tax Time! Get tips, forms, and advice on AOL Money & Finance. (http://money.aol.com/tax?NCID=aolprf00030000000001)

May the Leprechauns be near you, To spread Luck along your way. And may all the Irish Angels Smile on you St. Patrick's Day. Sent to all of you online friends from, Marge in Southern California Searching: Golden, Sullivan, Kelly, Shea, in Kerry and Connecticut O'Connor in Kerry Fee, Cassidy, Gilbride in Fermanagh, Cavan and Connecticut Lynch in Limerick and Connecticut Walsh, Stackpole, Garvey/Garrey/McGarrey, Donovan in Kildare

I believe it will be something like another 250 years before this happens again. And I think a lot of Irishman will be happy to note that. Yes, there is confusion all over because of the Parade Celebration and the Holy Day coinciding. I don't know why, my God is a forgiving God and surely he could turn his head the other way to allow the Irish their day of Celebration. I think they could still manage to bring their big hangover heads to celebrate Mass. Liz in sunny Florida wondering why we have so much ado about so little. **************It's Tax Time! Get tips, forms, and advice on AOL Money & Finance. (http://money.aol.com/tax?NCID=aolprf00030000000001)

Happy St. Patrick's Day to you Marge and if you find anything good in the Casey Collection about your Sullivan's - that may be related to mine, we will all celebrate with a pint of the green. Liz in sunny and warm Space Coast Florida. **************It's Tax Time! Get tips, forms, and advice on AOL Money & Finance. (http://money.aol.com/tax?NCID=aolprf00030000000001)

While going thru some saved emails recently I came across one from Ray Marshall (Thanks Ray) with a link to a database ancestry had added that had UK WW1 pension records. On ths database I found the papers of a gentleman I have been researching. It was 22 pages long and on one page I found his next of kin, his mother listed then crossed out and his brother entered. It gave a partial address for the brother here in the USA. Unfortunately I cannot read it:(. If anyone is willing to take a try please email me and I will send it to you off list. I am emailing these 2 lists because I know Ray is on the Kerry list and the gentleman I am researching, Hugh Hanley came from Roscommon. Thanks, Cheryl

In a message dated 3/9/2008 8:54:46 AM Eastern Standard Time, raymarsh@mninter.net writes: But the Catholic church frowns on feasts and celebrations during Holy Week, so in the Archdiocese of St Paul and Minneapolis, our day is now being celebrated on Saturday, March 15. Businesses, if they haven't run into reservation problems, like the idea because a Saturday will bring out more people for our (puny) parades and pack our bars. Purists with totally green blood, are aghast. Any reactions where you live? Ray, In New Rochelle NY we just came from the annual Irish Benevolent Society's Communion Breakfast, ususally held the Sunday before St. Patrick's Day, but bumped due to Palm Sunday. No one minded - the Church can switch us around, but the NYC Parade will be on the 17th come hell or high water! and the celebrations go on in spite of Holy Week. We're full of sausage and eggs and bacon and soda bread, it's actually good to give ourselves some time to recuperate before the next feast! Happy St. Patrick's Day to all - whenever you celebrate! Noreen in NY **************It's Tax Time! Get tips, forms, and advice on AOL Money & Finance. (http://money.aol.com/tax?NCID=aolprf00030000000001)

I am searching for a connection with a Portuguese ancestor in Co. Kerry. the most likely connection is sailors from the the 5 ships of the Spanish Armada that landed near the Blasket Islands and settled in Co. Kerry. The family name of interest is Oliviera or other variants of Oliver. If anyone has any information, please post it up. Cheers Gerry O'Connell

Well, who better to kick out the Kerry List's annual celebration of our national feast day than Marge, our "Kerry Kuzzin" from the land of cars and swimming pools. Since Easter is the earliest it has been for something like 150 years (First Sunday after the First Full Moon after the Vernal Equinox, if you really must know), St Patrick's day falls on the Monday of Holy Week this year. In theory. But the Catholic church frowns on feasts and celebrations during Holy Week, so in the Archdiocese of St Paul and Minneapolis, our day is now being celebrated on Saturday, March 15. Businesses, if they haven't run into reservation problems, like the idea because a Saturday will bring out more people for our (puny) parades and pack our bars. Purists with totally green blood, are aghast. Any reactions where you live? Ray Marshall Minneapolis Searching Reidy, Loughnane, McAuliffe, Hartnett, Aherne and Flynn from Kerry Searching Scanlon and Carney from either Cork or Waterford. Searching Marszalkiewicz from Budziszewko -----Original Message----- From: irl-kerry-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:irl-kerry-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of KerryKuzzin@cs.com Sent: Sunday, March 09, 2008 1:14 AM To: IRL-Kerry@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [IRL-KERRY] Where are you all? Happy St. Pat's Day Here we are coming up to St. Patrick's Day and everyone on this list is taking time off from searching their ancestors? No soda bread recipes? No discussion of the leprechaun webcam? (thank God) Did you all start celebrating early? I, for one, will be searching the Casey collection tomorrow in hopes of finding some new tidbit of information. It should be a breeze, after all I'm looking for those very UNUSUAL names of SULLIVAN, SHEA, O'CONNOR, KELLY and that very COMMON one of GOLDEN. :) But I do have a clue - they were from Kerry! A little jest there! Actually, the Sullivan/Shea family was from CoarhaBeg on Valentia and my Goldens were in Killinane in 1871. So, Ray, if you are paying attention here - do you have any useful tips to give me? I have not yet found that 16,000,000 name index. It seems to me that every volume has several indexes of names. One for each set of records in each volume. Tomorrow I will remember to take with me my very good magnifying glass, my maps of where my family was, my laptop (and I will move the files that I need onto it). Is there anything that I am forgetting? Just in case some of you only check in once this week, I will say Happy St. Patrick's Day now. Marge in Southern California

Here we are coming up to St. Patrick's Day and everyone on this list is taking time off from searching their ancestors? No soda bread recipes? No discussion of the leprechaun webcam? (thank God) Did you all start celebrating early? I, for one, will be searching the Casey collection tomorrow in hopes of finding some new tidbit of information. It should be a breeze, after all I'm looking for those very UNUSUAL names of SULLIVAN, SHEA, O'CONNOR, KELLY and that very COMMON one of GOLDEN. :) But I do have a clue - they were from Kerry! A little jest there! Actually, the Sullivan/Shea family was from CoarhaBeg on Valentia and my Goldens were in Killinane in 1871. So, Ray, if you are paying attention here - do you have any useful tips to give me? I have not yet found that 16,000,000 name index. It seems to me that every volume has several indexes of names. One for each set of records in each volume. Tomorrow I will remember to take with me my very good magnifying glass, my maps of where my family was, my laptop (and I will move the files that I need onto it). Is there anything that I am forgetting? Just in case some of you only check in once this week, I will say Happy St. Patrick's Day now. Marge in Southern California Searching: Golden, Sullivan, Kelly, Shea, in Kerry and Connecticut O'Connor in Kerry Fee, Cassidy, Gilbride in Fermanagh, Cavan and Connecticut Lynch in Limerick and Connecticut Walsh, Stackpole, Garvey/Garrey/McGarrey, Donovan in Kildare

Hi List I would llike to thank some many members of this list for all the helpful advice they have given me regarding my forthcoming visit to Kerry in May of this year. Kerry Kate Marge from Southern California Patricia O’Shea from New Zealand Joe Owens. Trish Jensen Kathleen Fitzgerald Declan O’Connor Jeanne Baldwin and Mary Ann from Michagen Apologies if I have missed anyone. I have thanked them all personally but just wanted the list as a whole to know how helpful people are. I am gradually finding my way around all the various villages and look forward to a fruitful visit. Even if I don’t find out any more information about my Glosters it will be a priveledge to visit and experience the county of my great grandmother Ellen Gloster and hopeful to attend Mass in the church where she worshiped each Sunday until she left to come to New Zealand where she along with her husband Angelo Mastrapasqua heads a family consisiting of

Helen, as far as I've been told, they are the synonymous. I had a Deborah Kerrisk married into my Kelly line. Deborah can also be Gobnet and Kerrisk can also be Healy! No wonder we can't find what we're looking for at times. I did a Google for Kerrisk and Healy and found the Healy family network site: www.healyfn.com/healy2e.html They mention that one of the O'Healy branches of County Kerry was synonymous with Kerrisk. Looks like the record you found truly may be yours! Good Luck ~Patsy~ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Helen" <hdipilato@comcast.net> To: <irl-kerry@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, March 03, 2008 8:39 PM Subject: [IRL-KERRY] Healy/Kerrisk Dear list, I have been searching the Casey collection for a marriage record on Nora Forhan and Daniel Healy circa 1840-1850. I have not had much luck but being a newbie to the collection I thought I missed it. This evening on a Donoghue Clan board which I'm also searching I saw a blurb that surprised me. It said the name Healy is synonymous with the name Kerrisk in Tralee/Killarney area. I was searching in Glenflesk, Teernaboul and Killarney. I found on a Kerry site a marriage that fits mine and name is Nora Forhan and Daniel Kerrisk. Is this true? Can Healy possibly be Kerrisk? Help would be appreciated. Helen

"the name Healy is synonymous with the name Kerrisk in Tralee/Killarney area" Some of my Quinlan ancestors in Killarney also married into the Healy family and I also found this information. At the time, a distant Quinlan relation (Michael Quinlan as some of you may remember him posting on this board) who was born in Killarney and a direct descendant of the Healy ancestor, was still living and told me this was true. Jeanne Delany Hubbard Always looking for QUINLAN, DWYER and DUCKET in the Killarney area

Hi All, My ancestors in County Kerry are MYERS, one daugter who married O'CONNOR. I am looking for the marriage record of WILLIAM MYERS and MARGARET ______ who married about 1832. They immigrated to US about 1852, settling in Washington, DC. WILLIAM MYERS was born about 1810 and died between 1850-1878 in DC area. MARGARET ____ MYERS was born 1813 and her death certificate dated January 22, 1878 of Washington, DC records that she lived in Washington, DC for 26 years....which is what I'm basing their immigration to US on. She is buried at Mt. Olivet Cemetery in Washington, DC but there is no burial record for him who died earlier. All of their children were born in Kerry: Daniel 1833, Patrick 1840, Ellen 1841, MARGARET 1844 (my line), John - January 1847, and Hannora 1850. MARGARET MYERS born 1844 married WILLIAM THOMAS WHEELER on September 30, 1869 in Washington, DC. He was born in 1847 in Marland, USA. Her sister ELLEN MYERS married MICHAEL O'CONNOR on June 5, 1858 in Washington, DC. MICHAEL O'CONNOR was born September 1835 in Kerry. He died June 6, 1900 in Washington, DC. Both are buried at Mt. Olivet Cemetery in DC. In 3 US Census Michael O'Connor is listed as a Dairyman, as was his father in law. If anyone can help me to find the family and township of MYERS (MAYERS?) and O'CONNORS of Kerry I would greatly appreciate any leads. Sincerely, Sherry _________________________________________________________________ Climb to the top of the charts! Play the word scramble challenge with star power. http://club.live.com/star_shuffle.aspx?icid=starshuffle_wlmailtextlink_jan

Good Evening, 'Tripped over' this little tidbit while browsing books at Lulu.com. Thought there might be a need for another lister...................... This work offers a detailed account of the extant records as well as an in-depth description of how to trace the career of a teacher AND some students in nineteenth century Ireland. Although the focus is on the Republic, transcripts cover Northern Ireland . Paid pupil monitors, who were actually young students, are also examined. These records are a bonus as this 'occupation' would not have been noted in any of the coventional records as the monitors would have been listed only as 'scholars' or 'pupils' (ie:in a census); thus, an important work even if your forbear was not known to have been a teacher. Research examples as well as transcriptions of monitor's records are included. The publication of 'Records Generated by the Comissioners of National Education' will soon follow (March '08) and enhance the success of the serious researcher of Irish Family History. . Sounds interesting... Regards, FBK --------------------------------- Looking for last minute shopping deals? Find them fast with Yahoo! Search.

Dear list, I have been searching the Casey collection for a marriage record on Nora Forhan and Daniel Healy circa 1840-1850. I have not had much luck but being a newbie to the collection I thought I missed it. This evening on a Donoghue Clan board which I'm also searching I saw a blurb that surprised me. It said the name Healy is synonymous with the name Kerrisk in Tralee/Killarney area. I was searching in Glenflesk, Teernaboul and Killarney. I found on a Kerry site a marriage that fits mine and name is Nora Forhan and Daniel Kerrisk. Is this true? Can Healy possibly be Kerrisk? Help would be appreciated. Helen

Hello again Ray No, they didn't use Edward but Edmund ( and earlier Edmond ) or Eamon - awkward squad!!! Mary