In a message dated 12/25/2004 10:39:53 PM Eastern Standard Time, [email protected] writes: > In order to promote "the lets get up and go" on this little item of some > 180++ Journals and the effort of others who have used the Journals as a > guide to their own area of special interest, including Galway and Cork and > Wicklow, including the efforts of the Cantwells, both father and son, [and J > S Clarke for that matter] these Journals represent the last great frontier > of Irish genealogy written in some form of stone, marble and concrete. Being > illegible to the human eye is the last excuse one would tolerate in this day > of electro photo enhancement and digital enhancement. Even older stones that > have been retrieved from blow ground. A great many stones have had their > etchings successfully retrieved over the years. If we can do it in Egypt, > and the great standing stones of the Vikings then a few stones a couple of > hundred years old is "a piece of cake". So we'll hear no more of this is this olgham Jim Denning -Ygenealogist-MTgenealogist using dna to connect Chelsea,Ma.-Woburn,Ma.-denning-dennen-danin-dinan-dinihey-denningston-dinning- carlon-carroll-dever-cogan-malone-heslin-piscopo-mazzola-martini-farrell-mchug h-farley-grimes-lynch-doherty-SanDanto,Ita-Adargh,longford-Revere,Ma-Wintrop,M a.- and ever an growing list