I am passing this on with Eileen and Sean's permission. I was at one of Sean's presentation at last year's genealogy conference in Boston and highly recommend it, if you can make it. Sean Ó Dúill will be presenting a talk entitled Death and Burial customs in 19th Century Ireland on 28th November ( Wednesday)at 7PM Venue: The Irish Cultural Centre at Our Lady of the Elms College, Chicopee, Massachusetts SUMMARY OF LECTURE: Learning about the experiences of life and death of your Irish ancestors, will make the names and dates on documents come alive. Many of these traditions and beliefs were brought to the new world with them and survive in some form even today. Sean O'Duill has studied the 1937 Irish Folklore Commission Schools Project focusing on the copy books written by the children of Loisburgh. He brings to life the voices of the children who wrote the essays describing death and funeral rituals in the 19th century. The Irish wake, funeral games and superstitions will be discussed. Conference Speaker's Biography: Sean O'Duill is a fluent Irish speaker from Louisburgh, Co. Mayo. He has recently retired from teaching in St. Declan's College, Dublin and has published several articles in Irish and English on Irish folklore. Sean was the keynote speaker at the 2005 National Genealogical conference, lectured at FGS Conference in Boston in 2006 and at the Irish Genealogical Conference in Sligo in 2004. His research into Irish Folklore has developed lectures which have been of great interest to family historians in Ireland. Eileen M. Ó Dúill, CG 47 Delwood Road Castleknock Dublin 15 Ireland email: info@heirsireland.com <mailto:info@heirsireland.com> CG, Certified Genealogist is a service mark of the Board for Certification of Genealogists (USA), used under license by Board-certified associates after periodic competency evaluations -- Pat Connors, Sacramento CA http://www.connorsgenealogy.com