----- Original Message ----- From: "Ray Marshall" <raymarsh@mninter.net> To: "Joan W." <jwhitney@pacifier.com> Sent: Saturday, August 11, 2007 11:52 AM Subject: RE: [IRL-KERRY] Bad news, Kerry researchers! > > Joan. > > You just sent that to me. > > You have to send it to the list, too: irl-kerry@rootsweb.com > > > Ray > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Joan W. [mailto:jwhitney@pacifier.com] > Sent: Saturday, August 11, 2007 1:21 PM > To: Ray Marshall > Subject: Re: [IRL-KERRY] Bad news, Kerry researchers! > > > Hey guys, I have been singing the praises of the Emmigrant Savings Bank of > NY for several weeks now. Records also, in my case, anyway, have date of > immigration, name of ship, name of family members, and in one case, "and > one > brother, George, in California". It is a great site and is on Ancestry. > Go > to NY. Go to Immigration, Naturalization, and it is about 13 sites from > the > bottom. Good luck. Joan on the Sunny (finally, 70 degrees) Washington > State coast. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Ray Marshall" <raymarsh@mninter.net> > To: "John L. Sweeney" <sweelab@enter.net> > Cc: <irl-kerry@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Saturday, August 11, 2007 8:48 AM > Subject: Re: [IRL-KERRY] Bad news, Kerry researchers! > > >> >> The shanty Irish from which I'm descended, Jack, probably couldn't afford >> a >> safety deposit box. And they probably didn't have them in the small >> towns >> on the western frontier where the adventuresome settled. >> >> But for those of you who aren't familiar with the Emigrant Savings Bank >> records, if you have relatives that lived for a time in New York City, >> they >> might be something for you to check out. >> >> Their records are on microfilm of the transactions between depositors who >> wanted to send money to Ireland to relatives so that they might be able >> to >> emigrate. The records often include the U.S. and Irish addresses. >> >> >> Ray Marshall >> in hot, humid, sticky and sweltering Minneapolis >> >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: John L. Sweeney [mailto:sweelab@enter.net] >> Sent: Saturday, August 11, 2007 9:26 AM >> To: Ray Marshall >> Cc: irl-kerry@rootsweb.com >> Subject: Re: [IRL-KERRY] Bad news, Kerry researchers! >> >> >> Good Morning Ray et al: >> >> The EWTN program presented [evidently] part of the explanation >> for the difficulties of contemporary family history searchers. >> >> Of course the behavior of our ancestors were influenced by >> the personalities and character of the original residents of the places >> those Kerryfolk made their "American home". >> >> Connecticut's original residents were solid Yankees [not The Bronx sort] >> and >> they originated the use of flammable storage places that must be >> esthetically >> pleasing to the eye and indicative of superior status. >> >> Wanting to "fit in" the Kerryfolk adopted the impractical habits >> and timeless delusions of their new Connecticut neighbors. >> >> Of course the Kerryfolk who settled in New York City had the >> example of resident New Yorkers who used various bank services. >> Thus, The Emigrant Savings Bank's safety deposit box vaults was >> the repository of matter deemed to be important to save, safely. >> >> It seemed apt to throw in a bit of clarification for our "AU & NZ" >> brothers and sisters. >> >> Love, Jack Sweeney in bright & cool Palmer, Pennsylvania. >> >> >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> 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 >> >> > > > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.5.476 / Virus Database: 269.11.13/946 - Release Date: 8/10/2007 > 3:50 PM > >