I hope you will not mind that I have added the Teskey website to the list Ken McDonald Please do a copy/paste and add your resources to the list. Then re-post it for all of us and we'll try to keep it updated that way. If there's a mistake, please let me know or just correct it in your next post. THANK YOU, Everybody!! Susan ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Current List of Resources: 1. *Palatine Families of Ireland*, by Hank Jones. Published by Picton Press of Camden, ME, 1990 (Susan Willig, Carole Ruckle Richardson) 2. *To Their Heirs Forever*, by Eula C. Lapp. Published by Mika Pub. Co. of Belleville, Ontario, 1977. (Susan Willig, Carole Ruckle Richardson) 3. IRISH RECORDS James G. Ryan basically the civil parish vs. religious parish correlation...lookups available (Susan Patt Spencer) 4. THE SURNAMES OF IRELAND MacLysaght shows origins of names..lookups available (Susan Patt Spencer) 5. STATE CENSUS RECORDS (USA) Ann S. Lainhart give info about what's contained in the state census returns and when they were taken for each state...lookups available (Susan Patt Spencer) 6. "People Make Places" Patrick J O'Connor, by ireacht na Mumhan Books 1989 (Chris LeGear, Carole Ruckle Richardson) 7. "The Irish Palatines of Ontario" Carolyn A Heald, available as part of "Canadian Papers in Rural History" by Langdale Press, Gananoque, Ontario (Chris LeGear) 8. "The Irish Palatines" Rev. Dudley L Cooney. 1999 Deutsch Irischer Freundeskreis but available from the Palatine Heritage Centre, Rathkeale. (Chris LeGear) 9. 1881 Great Britain Census available to me and I'm willing to do look-ups. (Chris LeGear and Terry Pyper) 10. ) "A New Genealogical Atlas of Ireland" by Brian Mitchell,(1986, Baltimore, 123pp), with maps and listings of provinces, counties, baronies, Poor Law Unions (PLU), civil parishes, dioceses and probate districts. For townlands, I refer to a lovely Website posted by Ed Finn at: http://www.seanruad.com/cgi-bin/iresch. (Terry Pyper) 11. Cassell's Gazetteer of 1899 ('A complete topographical dictionary of the United Kingdom' , which - at that time, of course, included Ireland). Nothing more than photocopied pages of descriptions of localities, with illustrations and maps, but interesting. (Terry Pyper) 12. "Irish Family Names" by Kelly (Lois Sparling: [email protected] ) 13. "Over the Hill and Far Away: Tracing the Sparlings" compiled by Bryant. (Lois Sparling: [email protected] ) 14. several 19c Ordnance Survey Maps, including Ryninch Upper townland in north Tipperary near Killaloe. (Lois Sparling: [email protected] ) 15. The Irish Palatine Association's website www.erin.ie/ipa is a useful source. Whilst it's not yet as friendly as it should be, it does contain some useful information. It has a unique record of pupils who enrolled at Rathkeale No 2 School between 1873 and 1910, soon to be joined by a record of pupils at the No 3 School. (Submitted by Ken McDonald 2 Greenfields, Stansted, Essex, CM24 8AH, England [email protected] ) 16. "The Smeltzers of Kilcooly", R. M. Smeltzer (Carole Ruckle Richardson Baltimore, MD [email protected] ) 17.. "The Loyalists of Ontario", Reid (Carole Ruckle Richardson Baltimore, MD [email protected] ) 18.. "Early Palatine Emigration", Knittle (Carole Ruckle Richardson Baltimore, MD [email protected] ) 19.. Teskey family website www.teskey.org - Family Tree - Teskey Family Tree - Surnames. This contains hundreds of spouses and descendants with other Palatine surnames, and shows how they are related through the Teskey line.