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

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