When I was small and growing up in Winthrop I always thought East Boston was really "Easta Bos". People there were mostly Italian and called it that. NOW, I live in Florida but have a granddaughter who lives in Easta Bos. LOL

--LOL LOVE Hoyoke! Has anyone ever been to Hayvril? Jan LIVE, FREE genealogy help at www.genealogyforum.org ---- [email protected] wrote: > Another gem........Hoyok > > David Nicholson > > "When they ask why we died, tell them because our father's lied" > Rudyard Kipling upon his son's death in WWI > > ------------------------------- > 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

Where in QuinZee did you grow up? I spent several years there, and my grandparents lived there from 1900 until 1952.

Dear Dave, Interesting quote from Kipling after the loss of his son in the Great War. What posessed you to recall it, please ? Also, I am from Quin zee. All other such named cities pronounce their name as QuinSee. Never knew it said any other way, growing up. Joe

Jude: EastaBos it was...maybe still is. :Brian >From: "Jude Galvin" <[email protected]> >Reply-To: [email protected] >To: <[email protected]> >Subject: Re: [MASUFFOL] Boston Pronounciations >Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2006 16:17:02 -0500 > > > > >Brian. > > >Thats Easta-Bos! > > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "brian mccarthy" <[email protected]> >To: <[email protected]> >Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2006 12:13 PM >Subject: Re: [MASUFFOL] Boston Pronounciations > > > > Paul: > > > > I left East Boston in 1947 and still get a reaction similar to yours. > > > > :Brian of San Diego > > > > > > > > >------------------------------- >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

Jackie: I lived in East Boston from 1932 to 1947. Indeed, I always referrred to my hometown as "EastaBos". So, now, my California license plates are just that, - EastaBos - . Brian McCarthy >From: [email protected] >Reply-To: [email protected] >To: [email protected] >Subject: Re: [MASUFFOL] Boston Pronounciations >Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2006 16:04:40 EST > >When I was small and growing up in Winthrop I always thought East Boston >was >really "Easta Bos". People there were mostly Italian and called it that. >NOW, >I live in Florida but have a granddaughter who lives in Easta Bos. LOL > >------------------------------- >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

In a message dated 12/13/2006 2:10:20 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, [email protected] writes: Rudyard Kipling upon his son's death in WWI full book online A Ken of Kipling: Being a Biographical Sketch of Rudyard Kipling By William Montgomery Clemens Google Books online

Another gem........Hoyok David Nicholson "When they ask why we died, tell them because our father's lied" Rudyard Kipling upon his son's death in WWI

Paul: I left East Boston in 1947 and still get a reaction similar to yours. :Brian of San Diego >From: "Priscilla Haines" <[email protected]> >Reply-To: [email protected] >To: <[email protected]> >Subject: Re: [MASUFFOL] Boston Pronounciations >Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2006 00:01:09 -0700 > >Don't lose it!!! > >-----Original Message----- >From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] >On Behalf Of PAUL NICHOLS >Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2006 5:25 PM >To: [email protected] >Subject: Re: [MASUFFOL] Boston Pronounciations > >I grew up in Boston and haven't been living there since 1964 .. yet, >most people I meet for the first time, after just a few comments back >and forth, ask me if I come from Boston...hard to lose the accent >completely. > > Paul of San diego > >------------------------------- >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 > >-- >No virus found in this incoming message. >Checked by AVG Free Edition. >Version: 7.1.409 / Virus Database: 268.15.16/582 - Release Date: 11/Dec/06 > > >-- >No virus found in this outgoing message. >Checked by AVG Free Edition. >Version: 7.1.409 / Virus Database: 268.15.16/582 - Release Date: 11/Dec/06 > > > > >------------------------------- >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

Dear Sue, My Gawd, but that was quite a response. Bless you for such a volume of information. I will begin my search this week, based on your wonderful recommendations. How can I begin to thank you.? Joe

Joe, Like most of the folks on the list, I enjoy helping someone else as much as doing my own research. As to thanking me, just have fun searching for your family. Sue On 12/13/06, Joseph T Chetwynd <> wrote: > > Dear Sue, > > My Gawd, but that was quite a response. Bless you for such a volume of > information. I will begin my search this week, based on your wonderful > recommendations. How can I begin to thank you.? > > Joe > > ------------------------------- > 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 >

Don't lose it!!! -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of PAUL NICHOLS Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2006 5:25 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [MASUFFOL] Boston Pronounciations I grew up in Boston and haven't been living there since 1964 .. yet, most people I meet for the first time, after just a few comments back and forth, ask me if I come from Boston...hard to lose the accent completely. Paul of San diego ------------------------------- 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 -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.409 / Virus Database: 268.15.16/582 - Release Date: 11/Dec/06 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.409 / Virus Database: 268.15.16/582 - Release Date: 11/Dec/06

Did you hear about the two Boston school teachers who went on a trip to CA? When they returned they were asked how they went and they said, "By way of Dedham!" -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.409 / Virus Database: 268.15.16/582 - Release Date: 11/Dec/06

In a message dated 12/12/2006 10:17:05 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, [email protected] writes: Don't forget DANVUZ ................. I love it !

Don't forget DANVUZ ................. David Nicholson "When they ask why we died, tell them because our father's lied" Rudyard Kipling upon his son's death in WWI

Joe, Basically, you figure out which part of the family you want to start with first. Let's say you want to work on the Donovan family. I like to check the US Censuses to start. Once you find the family, you can get approximate ages, occupations, immigration dates, places of birth, and naturalization status. Many on this list have access to either www.ancestry.com and/or heritage quest through a public library. Additionally, most/all? local Family History Center have access to ancestry.com for free. You can find your local Family History Center at www.familysearch.com, look for Family History Centers on the second toolbar on the web page to find the ones nearest you and their location and hours of operation. These are at LDS Churches. All they ask is you sign in, so they can track usage. I'm not a LDS member and have found them very easy to deal with. Additionally, ancestry.com has some of the Boston City Directories on-line. There is a free-website, http://www.damrellsfire.com/cgi-bin/directory_search.pl , that has some from 1845 to 1875. Also, like myself, a number of the folks on this list have access to some of the directories on microfilm from the FHL and are willing to do lookups as time permits. I haven't used them, but the Boston Public Library can make copies of pertinent pages from the Boston City Directories and send them to you for a small fee. You have a couple of choices to look for birth, marriage, and death records. The FHL does have microfilms of both the City of Boston records and the Massachusetts Archives copies of those records. The database I've been referring to is the New England Historic Genealogical Society's website www.newenglandancestors.org . Like ancestry.com, most of the databases requires a paid subscription. In the NEHGS's case, it is currently $75 to use the on-line databases. Again, a number of folks on this and other Massachusetts county lists have access and are willing to do lookups. As many of the experienced researchers have pointed out to me, the Massachusetts Archives and the NEHGS database derived from those archives, are copies of the town records. If you were dealing with a small town, let's say Saugus, you are only looking at two microfilms that you can order from the Family History Library in Salt Lake City, Utah from your local Family History Center. The current cost of order a film at my local FHC is $5.50 to keep the film at the FHC for six weeks. Unfortunately, Boston requires a great many films, which is one of the reasons the NEHGS database is popular. The database is not complete. There are a number of image of registers loaded on the servers and not linked, meaning you can't click on them and see them. Additionally, there are a number of register images not yet loaded on the server. There is a problem with birth records for folks with a surname starting somewhere in the Ss and going though Zs in the 1886-1890 time frame. The indexes were not loaded and I don't know when they might be. There are some other problems, but the vast majority of images are available. The FHL also have probate records, with indexes and actual records available on microfilm I suggest you go to the "search the catalog" link on familysearch.org and use the "Place" search, type in Boston in Place and Massachusetts in (part of) and see what choices come up. Once you get the basic data on your family, you can write to the Catholic Cemetery Association and Archivist, Archdiocese of Boston for church records for your family, if you want more information like who were the sponsors and witnesses. I'm assuming those Donovans and Murphys were Catholic. If you find when your ancestors immigrated, both the FHL and ancestry.comhave ships manifests available, microfilm for the former and on-line database for the later. I have found some of my family, but not all. There are more choices for searching, which you will see from answers folks give questions on this list. I might suggest you start by asking for help from this list and once you know how involved you want to get consider a subscription to the NEHGS database. If you can't get easy access to your local FHC or access to Heritage Quest from a local library, you might want to consider ancestry.com. The NEHGS does have some information for New York, but as I have no family there, can't tell you how much. More and more of the Canadian information is coming on-line, free through http://automatedgenealogy.com/index.html and other sites, and paid through ancestry.com. I do suggest you check out the GenWeb project. Just type in the state or province and GenWeb in a search engine and you can find the area you are looking at. Most are broken out into the counties and towns. The GenWeb sites have links to helpful websites, might have databases of vital records on-line, could have cemetery listings, and just helpful information on your search. They vary in quality, but all the coordinators are doing the best they can, Let me know if you need more information. Do post with a new subject any request for your family and let us help you get started. Best of luck in your search. Sue Richart Chewelah, Washington State On 12/12/06, Joseph T Chetwynd wrote: > > > Please tell me briefly, if you will, how this all works. I would like to > learn more about my own family members, if at all possible. The > Chetwynds, my father's family, go back to 1780's. They were from England > and, as Loyalists, they left from New York for ( now called ) Shelburne, > NS. On my mother's side, there are Donovans, Murphy's and , I believe, > Kidney's, all from the county Cork area of Ireland. My G-G-GF, John > Donovan, arrived in Boston in 1854. > > How should I go about making my inquiries and to whom should they be > directed ? > > Thankyou, > > Joe The Calker > >

--still laughing here! Who ever said that Bahstoneeins were a clan with no sensa humah! Loved the fohk n knife story! Jan LIVE, FREE genealogy help at www.genealogyforum.org ---- [email protected] wrote: > This is one of my all time favorite stories. I was 18 and visiting my > future husband's family. I was setting the table with "his" father and I said to > him................"Shall I put the fahk n knife on the table?" He > said...Jackie!!! Needless to say, I was very embarrassed. Yes, that is one of my all > time favorites from the olden days. > > ------------------------------- > 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

--Hey Farns! That Bahstin Lexicon is a keepah! Gonna put it in my scrapbook! Thanks! Jan B LIVE, FREE genealogy help at www.genealogyforum.org ---- [email protected] wrote: > Bahstin! A Bawstin Lexicon ah The letter between "q" an "s." ahdery Runs through the middle of the city. Ahftah foah o’clock, it’s clogged with cahs . ahnt Sistah of your fathah or muthah. Also: are not bah Serves beah and hahd likkah: The train to Noo Yok has a bah cah. bayah Ferocious brown or black animal. beah Malt beverage; e.g., Gansett. bon As in: Where were you bon? I was bon in J.P. Bawstin cream pie A frosted layah cake. Broons Professional hockey team, named after bayahs. Buljah President of the state Senate. Likes the guvnah; does not like Howie Cah. bzah Strange, odd: The Stuart case was bzah. cahdnal Oversees the Ahchdiasis of Bawstin. If speaker is over 50, refers to Richard Cushing. Chahlie He may ride forever ‘neath the streets of Bawstin. Last seen rumblin’ through Leechmeah; now needs 80 cents to get off thtrain. Chahlz The rivah; take the MTA across. chowdah Clams, milk, buttah Only a Noo Yokka (e.g., a chowdahead) puts tomatoes in it. con Stahchy veggie that comes on a cob. ‘The Pilgrims stole the Indians’ seed con to get through the wintah of 1621. connah Where streets intersect; e.g., Fields, Uphams. Dappab The city councilah most likely to drop by at your wake. Dot Short for Dotchesta. Mahky Mahk, the rappah, grew up neah Dot Ave. Emeffay The Museum of Fine Ahts. Evacuation Day When the redcoats left. Same date as St. Patrick’s Day; a legal holiday if you work in City Hall fah Not neah heah: Chiner is fah from Needum. fayah What life is not. fok What you eat pahster with. frappe Milk, ice cream, and syrup mixed together. Take out the ice cream, and it’s a milkshake. fyah Blaze: The Great Fya of 1872 reduced a lahge paht of Bawstin to cindahs. gahbidge What they used to dump in the hahbah. Gahden What they’re tearing down this yeah. guvnah Chief exeeutive of the commonwealth. hahbah What the Sonsalibidy dumped the tea into in 1773. To find it, walk east until your hat floats. hahlakwin A blend of vanilla, chocolate, and strawberry ice cream, served at pahties. Hahnsbagah Attorney general; the man who would be guvoals. Hahvid Country day school across the rivak The guvnah went there. So did Hahshbagah. Not the mayah, though. hahf-ahst Done without regard to detail heah Done with the eaha Listen, my children, and you shall heah Of the midnight ride of Paul Reveah. Also: not thayah hoss Equine quadruped. Runs at Suffick. Howahya How are you? Ianeah Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary. khakis What you staht the cah with. mayah Chief executive of the city. Used to be Irish, before the Irish moved to Milton. James Michael Curley was the mayah of the pooah. Mutberagawd! Favorite expletive of a fawmah mayah. nawtheasta A multiday stawm that blows in from the wotta. In February, a blizzid. NINA No Irish Need Apply. Employment signs remembered bitterly by third-generation Irish who never saw one. Noo Yok Sinkhole of America, 240 miles south of Tremont Street. Everyone at RU comes from Noo Yok. Oah Greatest Broon evah. Woah Numba Foah. Also: what the Hahvid crew rows with. oddah I’m Mahtha. Can I take yiz oddah? owah Sixty minutes. Also belonging to us. pahk Can’t do it in Hahvid Yalhd. Not downtown, eitha. Maybe in Glosta. pahkah One who pahks a cah. pahker What you wayah in the winta. pahlah Where the sofer is. Pahselz Former coach of the professional football team neah Patuckit; Moah popula than the guvnah - this yeah. pahster Spaghetti, ziti, etc., served with veal pahm. paht Neighborhood of the city: What paht of Bawstin are you from? Dot? Rozzie? Eastie? pahty A social gathering. Also: Democratic or Republican. pastah The rectah of a parish, like St. Mahgrit's or Sacred Haht. pickchas Canvases by Sahjent et al. hanging in the Emeffay pitchas They throw fast-balls at Fenway. retahded Silly: Making Nancy Kerrigan wear her Olympic medal at Disney World wasn’t just "corny"; it was retahded . Rawjah He throws the fastest fastballs at Fenway. Reveah He rode through Ahlington on a hoss, shouting: "To ahms!" Lived in the Nawth End. Also: the city just above Bawstin on the wotta shua Of course. Seltz Local professional basketball team. Plays on a pahkay floah at the Gahden. shot Not tall. The mayah is shot. squayah Intersection with a bus stop, a smoke shop, and a Brigham’ s; e.g., Cleary, Oak, Maverick, Codman. speeka Tip O’Neill, back when the Democrats ran things. Now refers to Chahlie Flaherty up the State House. Mistahspeeka, to you. Sistah (variant) I know the ansah, Sistah Mary of the Immaculate Conception. Call on me. tamorrah The day aftah today. tonic Coke, Sprite, etc. Not to be confused with tonic wotta, which goes with gin. waw An ahmed conflict As in: "If they meanto have a waw, let it begin heah." wof A peeah, jutting into the hahbah; e.g., Rowes, India, Long. wottah A blend of hydrogen and oxygen. Also: a street next to Milk. Yankee Descendant of the folks who stole the Indians’ seed con. yeah A 365-day period: The Red Sox always make us wait until the next one. yiz You, plural. As in: "Ah yiz goin’ down the Cape tamorrah?" _http://pages.prodigy.net/cotter_family/Bawstin.htm_ (http://pages.prodigy.net/cotter_family/Bawstin.htm) ------------------------------- 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

I grew up in Boston and haven't been living there since 1964 .. yet, most people I meet for the first time, after just a few comments back and forth, ask me if I come from Boston...hard to lose the accent completely. Paul of San diego

--Dear Joe, Haven't seen it yet, but I've been hearing about it on the radio. We live in the western part of the state, and we're kinda rooted in after 23 years! Haven't ever been to Charleston! When I leave home, I go to Boston, or Pittsburgh, or NJ, Don't have time to waste on more SC places! I am still having problems understanding what they say down HERE! At least I can understand what folks are talking about in Boston! Jan LIVE, FREE genealogy help at www.genealogyforum.org ---- Joseph T Chetwynd <[email protected]> wrote: > I was just recently down to Charleston, SC. I was calking on the new > pilot schooner they are builfding there, The SPIRIT of SOUTH CAROLINA. > Do you knmow about it ? > > Glad you are enjoying the great new england accent symposium. It is > great fun. > > Joe > > ------------------------------- > 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