List, I have to share Cara's sentiments and there are many who take and don't give back. I don't say it is deliberately selfish - just unthinking that they may have some titbit of information. In the course of our own research we have come across information and I know of at least two people we have helped with the key that has unlocked the door to their own research. We both take great pleasure in the knowledge that we have helped others with only a few minutes of our time. FYI Mary, in helping another subscriber found a schoolfriend from 60 years ago, so don't give up - SHARE!!! The web gets a lot of obvious criticism but this linking of our common interest in Wexford will eventually bear fruit for all of us. We are fortunate living in Wales and can get over to Dublin and Wexford every year - some times more than once but it would appear that our colonial friends (provocative?) have better access to some records than we have access to. BUT isn't it interesting that there are very few people currently from Wexford - with the exception of Cara's pal (who I hope is in good health) - who subscribe. However in our own research I have been helped by many locals just by going there and chatting. Whilst I am on my hobby horse I must complain that there are so many websites, groups, interested parties, carpetbaggers, (no names - no pack drill) that to subscribe to all, is a full time job. Every week there is yet another list on another server and the whole font of knowledge is dissipated across the world rather than being consolidated. OK - rant over. Time for some more wine.... Mary and Alan Cooper - nee Flynn and still looking for Wafers.

>From 12000 miles away "down under" I have just read your message and note that one of your interests seems to be in the surname"Wafers"-could this be a variant or vice versa of "Waters"? I'm trying to see if there is any connection[I feel there could be] with a Catherine Waters who appears to be the husband of a Thomas Potts Handcock from Co WEX[Whitechurch/Kilmokea Parish].They had a son bapt. in Ontario{Upper Canada]in Feb 1827 and a daughter a couple of years later. Thomas Potts Handcock was in that parish in the early months of 1825 and has been traced in Canada in July that year.They had a d. later on Olivia Maria.Catherine appears to have died as TPH married in 1838 in Quebec Sarah Dunne -widow Killett?-when she died in New York in 1854 records show she was born in IRL From the IGI for Co Wex there show both Dunne and Waters family in that county.Clutching at straws, John D Rose in Auckland New Zealand -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Alan and Mary Cooper Sent: Saturday, 14 July 2007 5:42 a.m. To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [IRL-WEXFORD] HELPING OTHERS List, I have to share Cara's sentiments and there are many who take and don't give back. I don't say it is deliberately selfish - just unthinking that they may have some titbit of information. In the course of our own research we have come across information and I know of at least two people we have helped with the key that has unlocked the door to their own research. We both take great pleasure in the knowledge that we have helped others with only a few minutes of our time. FYI Mary, in helping another subscriber found a schoolfriend from 60 years ago, so don't give up - SHARE!!! The web gets a lot of obvious criticism but this linking of our common interest in Wexford will eventually bear fruit for all of us. We are fortunate living in Wales and can get over to Dublin and Wexford every year - some times more than once but it would appear that our colonial friends (provocative?) have better access to some records than we have access to. BUT isn't it interesting that there are very few people currently from Wexford - with the exception of Cara's pal (who I hope is in good health) - who subscribe. However in our own research I have been helped by many locals just by going there and chatting. Whilst I am on my hobby horse I must complain that there are so many websites, groups, interested parties, carpetbaggers, (no names - no pack drill) that to subscribe to all, is a full time job. Every week there is yet another list on another server and the whole font of knowledge is dissipated across the world rather than being consolidated. OK - rant over. Time for some more wine.... Mary and Alan Cooper - nee Flynn and still looking for Wafers. ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message