Hi Liz, I'm relatively new to this group, but I have Sullivans from Kerry too. Mine are from Ballinakilla, near Glenbeigh. I can give you more details if this matches yours. This family is also related to the Powells of the same location - they seem to be the same ones as here<http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=wdromanski&id=I21816>, but if your Sullivans don't match these ones already, then they most likely won't match mine, as mine appear to be these ones. I haven't contacted William Romanski about these yet to confirm a match. regards, Steve. On 8 July 2013 11:34, <Lizziems@aol.com> wrote: > Hi Ray > Just to let you know I am still hanging in there and reading all the posts, > even if I have nothing new to contribute. As to the Golden boy, Jack > Sweeney, all of us old timers miss his great irish humor and wit. I still > have the Irish soda bread recipe. > I think with so many doing DNA testing these days, people are checking > their roots in other ways that on the Kerry rootsweb, but I may be > corrected on > that? > I still enjoy hearing from the old friends and looking for someone, anyone > to have a family tie with my Sullivan family, there are no less then four > of us that I know of that have Sullivan's and so far, none match up. > Ray, keep up the great job, things around here are like the stock market, > some days it's up and some day's it's down, but it is still gaining new > information all the time. I have found many good research sites that > people > have posted here and to them I am most appreciative. > Liz in hot and humid Space Coast Florida > > Researching" Sullivan, McGrath and Scott > > > > In a message dated 7/8/2013 3:00:23 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, > irl-kerry-request@rootsweb.com writes: > > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. List has been very quiet (Ray Marshall) > 2. Brandon/cloghane (sandy stegmayer) > 3. One of my favorite posts (Cheryl Labrecque) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Sun, 07 Jul 2013 11:52:39 -0500 (CDT) > From: "Ray Marshall" <ray.marshall@gmail.com> > Subject: [IRL-KERRY] List has been very quiet > To: <irl-kerry@rootsweb.com> > Message-ID: <76C93BD2975C4EEBA7515A53E9ECC9B9@lydiad4cd4461f> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > > Greetings all. This is the management speaking. Actually there hasn't > been > much to manage. > > Actually, the list has changed over the years after it started in October > 1998. As far as I know, we "peaked" with about 650 subscribers and we > still > have about 590, so people are hanging on. Some coming and some leaving, > all > the time. Many of you might not know that you can see all of the Kerry > List > Messages here: http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index/IRL-KERRY/ > > And if you want to search all the Kerry List Messages, where there is an > incredibly amount of information, you can go here: > http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/search?path=IRL-KERRY > > Try searching for "Flynn's Goat" and see what you find. Our Poet > Laureate > with a golden tongue, Jack Sweeney, R.I.P., contributed many delightful > emails to the list and Flynn's Goat was one of his best subjects. His > tastiest, of course, was the recipe for soda bread. > > The Kerry List has been a wonderful list with wonderful subscribers and > virtually no arguing, something that some lists are known for. > > But the internet has changed a lot in those 25 years. Back in the olden > days, there were hardly any Irish websites with genealogical information > and > few Irish genealogists who were on the internet to communicate with. > > So one of the first activities of subscribers of all lists was to > contribute > to a GenWeb web page where collected information was posted for > everybody's > use. I would imagine that few people visit there on purpose these days. > The Kerry List pages are still up, but I can't recall the last time > someone > has contributed something to them, or corrected information altered by new > findings: http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~irlker/ > > And when people couldn't find what they wanted on the Kerry page, they > would > come back to the list and make their request and their were always lots of > people ready to help out. Most of us are at a brick wall of some kind or > another during much of our genealogical careers, so helping out others is > a > fine way to hone our skills, re-familiarize ourselves with our research of > many years past and stay in contact with our internet pals. > > But we don't see much contributing, or many questions these days, and when > there are questions, we don't see many people ready to help out by giving > some advice. Just for information, in 2003, 1279 messages were posted > between January and June, 213 per month, in 2008, the number was 86 per > month; and this last six months in 2013, only 36 per month. > > Probably the biggest culprit for that decline in activity is the > incredible > advances in search engine technology. Along with that would be Irish web > sites that are well along in their plans to put more and more Irish > information in the Internet, and of course, more and more Irish people > with > computers at home who we can contact directly. There is just a lot more > information that we can find on the internet these days without having to > ask questions of the Kerry List. But there is still value to the list > because we all will arrive at brick walls and will need to ask of others > how > to proceed, if possible. > > You're probably wondering where and why I'm going here. > > One of our long time Kerry List subscribers emailed me the other day > complaining (nicely) about the fact that while we do get regular requests > from people (often in the early stages of their Kerry research), looking > for > help on names and places and whatever. But there aren't that many > responses > for them. Which means that they will be unlikely to ask another question > of > us. > > Now I know that some of you do respond to questions if you do have > knowledge > that might be of benefit to the questioner. And I thank you very much for > that. You know who you are. But I would bet that there are many more who > could add to the information. > > Even if there is a lot more information available on the internet these > day, > when it comes to looking for the names and townlands of the poor (and most > of us are descended from the Irish poor), lots of help is still needed. > > And Griffiths Valuation and the Tithe and other census substitutes are > still > needed and it takes a little skill to become familiar with them. > > What would be nice is if those of you who have transcribed lots of records > could contribute them to the Kerry Web Page There are huge gaps in the > information on the Kerry Page that many of you could fill. Check it out: > http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~irlker/ > > Ann Hammer has been patiently waiting "on the cloud" for more > contributions: > aphammer@charter.net > > I'm not too picky on contributions to the List. If you have anything like > a > recipe', poem, songs, culture items, traditions, books, etc. let the List > know about it. If nothing else it keeps reminding people that the List > does > exist for your benefit. > > And I truly understand that many of you are not doing much research these > days. I'm one of them. I'm mostly busy organizing the thousands of files > that I have collected and developed over almost 40 years so that they can > be > useable for others. That is my priority now as I'm well into my senior > years. But my health is still pretty good, all things considering. > > A reminder: when you are responding to a message on the Kerry List, or > any > list, make sure that your contribution is reflected well in the subject > line > of the message header. And delete portions of messages that don't apply > to > your subject, too. > > > All my best to you all. > > Ray Marshall > Kerry List Administrator > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Sun, 07 Jul 2013 13:29:41 -0400 > From: "sandy stegmayer" <ssteg@verizon.net> > Subject: [IRL-KERRY] Brandon/cloghane > To: <irl-kerry@rootsweb.com> > Message-ID: <E2EB327C5A3747E3A53E616736EB2217@gscPC> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > Hi Ray and other listers. Sorry Ray. Sadly I don?t have anything to > contribute other than questions. My family is from the Brandon/Cloghane > area. > Names are Fitzgerald, Deady, O?Neil, and Dowd. They ended up in Holyoke > MA. If > anyone has a connection to not only these families, but any other families > in that region, I?d appreciate hearing from you. I have names other than > these that were godparents. > Take care, > Sandy > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Sun, 7 Jul 2013 19:15:28 -0400 > From: Cheryl Labrecque <chicocat007@gmail.com> > Subject: [IRL-KERRY] One of my favorite posts > To: Kerry List <IRL-KERRY@rootsweb.com> > Message-ID: > <CAFP+L0J8gc2P6Xak=5MS2NsarJ6k8FL3_Hc_+w=z-3osKkc5Cw@mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > Archiver <http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/> > > IRL-KERRY<http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index/IRL-KERRY> > > 2005-11< > http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index/IRL-KERRY/2005-11> > > 1131366545 > > When I first joined the list, I mistook Ray's weather forecast for him > announcing his birthday. Gonna be 60 Tomorrow. Of course the usually > banter between Ray and Jack followed. > > The Other Cheryl > > Brosnihan, Kilcummin > Healy Kerrisk Gortgullane and Killarney > > > ------------------------------ > > 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. > > > End of IRL-KERRY Digest, Vol 8, Issue 92 > **************************************** > > _______________ > --------------- > > Policies of the IRL-Kerry List: > http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~irlker/mailing.html > 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. > > To subscribe to the Digest version of the list, please send an email to > IRL-KERRY-D-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'subscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message. > > To visit the County Kerry Research and Resources Page go to: > http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~irlker/ > > Share your stuff! 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