I have just updated the County Tipperary Surname Registry on my website: http://www.connorsgenealogy.com/tipp/ If you submitted a name, please check your entry for accuracy. If I have made a mistake or your data has changed, please email me using directions at the bottom of the surname registry pages and I will make the corrections with my next update of the site. Please note the email address in the directions (nymets11@pacbell.net) is the one I use for the many surname registries I have on my website. If you send them to this gmail address, they will not be used since I use this one just for Rootsweb Mailing Lists. Also, if you have changed your email address, remember to let me know so I can change it when I do my next update (2-4 times a year). I cannot tell you enough times about how I get emails from possible connections looking for a new email address for one that no longer works. -- Pat Connors, Sacramento CA http://www.connorsgenealogy.com nymets22@gmail.com

I have updated the following Surname Registries on my website: Monaghan: http://www.connorsgenealogy.com/Monaghan/ New England Irish: http://www.connorsgenealogy.com/NEIrish/ New Rochelle NY: http://www.connorsgenealogy.com/NewRochelle/ NY Irish: http://www.connorsgenealogy.com/NYIrishList/ If you submitted a name, please check your entry for accuracy. If I have made a mistake or your data has changed, please email me using directions at the bottom of the surname registry page and I will make the corrections with my next update of the site. NOTE: (nymets11@pacbell is the surname registry's address, if you send it to my gmail address, the addition/correction will not happen) Also, if you have changed your email address, remember to let me know ( nymets11@pacbell.net) so I can change it when I do my next update (2-4 times a year). I cannot tell you enough times about how I get emails from possible connections looking for a new email address for one that no longer works. -- Pat Connors, Sacramento CA http://www.connorsgenealogy.com nymets22@gmail.com

I have just updated the County Monaghan Surname Registry on my website: http://www.connorsgenealogy.com/Monaghan/index.htm If you submitted a name, please check your entry for accuracy. If I have made a mistake or your data has changed, please email me using directions at the bottom of the surname registry page and I will make the corrections with my next update of the site. Also, if you have changed your email address, remember to let me know so I can change it when I do my next update (2-4 times a year). I cannot tell you enough times about how I get emails from possible connections looking for a new email address for one that no longer works. -- Pat Connors, Sacramento CA http://www.connorsgenealogy.com nymets22@gmail.com

Here's a print of the original St. Augustine's Roman Catholic Church in Ossining, New York. http://images.tuckdb.org/postcards/images/000/002/856/mid/2010_08_05_13_31_15.jpg It stood adjacent to the present day Cablevision building on North Highland Avenue. The newer church borders Ossining and Croton to the north. St. Augustine's parish had the second largest Irish-Catholic community in Northern Westchester County, to the now defunct St. Patrick's Church in Verplanck, NY. Verplanck, just south of the City of Peekskill, attracted Irish immigrants to work its riverfront brickyards, as did Buchanan, Montrose, and Crugers. Croton NY attracted predominantly Italians and Irish who built the Croton Dam and infrastructure of NYC's water supply, including the Croton Aqueduct. As the New York Central Railroad crept northward from Ossining, immigrant labor was essential here too circa 1860. Barb MizScarlettNy@aol.com

Filmmaker Ken Burns is at it again tonight! "Jackie Robinson" Part 1 Jackie Robinson was the first African-American, major league baseball player. He began playing first base for the ole Brooklyn Dodgers on April 15, 1947. 9 - 11pm eastern PBS= 13 in Metro NYC [Cablevision] Please note, Part 2 will be on tomorrow night, same time, same station Barb MizScarlettNY@aol.com

Voter registration is very much a genealogical issue. When today's eligible voters have *not* voted recently: l) Some counties are removing their names from their "active" rosters, so these citizens will be unable to vote in upcoming NY elections, including federal primaries next week and the presidential election of November 2016. (2) This valuable resource will diminish in importance as voter registration is on the decline. Lots of complaints in metro NYC that New York's deadline for voter registration is too early; it was last October. Think about it: Why should the cut-off date be different state to state? Isn't six months overtly cautious in this computer age? Interestingly, today's news reports that two of Trump's voting-age children aren't registered Republicans, so...can't vote for Pops next week. If the families of politicos are out of the loop, just imagine everyday NYers. SEE:> http://gothamist.com/2016/04/11/not_good_or_classy.php?utm_source=Gothamist+Daily&utm_campaign=8814212e2c-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_73240544d8-8814212e2c-16452337 Residents of New York State can check their voting status here, where you will not find deceased ancestors.> https://voterlookup.elections.state.ny.us/votersearch.aspx Voter registrations are such genealogically rich resources. They provide more than a party affiliation, or street address, via Ancestry. What Acnestry offers is merely an index to a pithy goldmine. If you've not researched at your county board of election archives, don't knock it until you've tried it. HOW TO SEARCH In NYS, records are on file at the county level. Just as with the 1890 NYC Police Census, you begin with a street address, not a name. The larger the city, the more important it is to know the Assembly District (AD) and Election District (ED). These are some of the fancy numbers atop census pages. Most searchers pay more attention to the other ED, the Enumeration District. The MANHATTAN BOARD OF ELECTIONS is still located at 200 Varick Street. Once upon a time NYC NARA was located at 201 Varick, so a trip to one, meant a trip to the other. My APG branch met at their warehouse at 448 W 16th St. and I had to the chance to search its huge, handwritten ledgers 1916-1920 (gaps) and 1923-1956 for numerous ancestors. Remember: These records may supplement naturalization searches, since only citizens could vote. Information includes each voter's name, street address, date they last voted, names of all adults registered at the same address, DOB, party of preference, previous voting address, and voting status. So, when you vote, you'll be leaving a trail, just like Handel and Gretel leaving bread bits, for future generations. Barb MizScarlettNY@aol.com -----Original Message----- From: Lynne via <myfamroots@comcast.net, While I can sympathize, this is not related to genealogy. On 4/6/2016 6:29 PM, mizscarlettny via wrote: > Here is a list of all NY State Boards of Elections, by county. > http://www.elections.ny.gov/CountyBoards.html > > Recently I found an interactive city-wide map of voting results > from the last presidential primary. I was shocked to see that the > Upper East Side of Manhattan had the largest number of voters = 24%. > The majority of sections has single digit figures.

I have just updated the County Mayo Surname Registry on my website: http://www.connorsgenealogy.com/Mayo/ If you submitted a name, please check your entry for accuracy. If I have made a mistake or your data has changed, please email me using directions at the bottom of the surname registry page and I will make the corrections with my next update of the site. Also, if you have changed your email address, remember to let me know so I can change it when I do my next update (2-4 times a year). I cannot tell you enough times about how I get emails from possible connections looking for a new email address for one that no longer works. -- Pat Connors, Sacramento CA http://www.connorsgenealogy.com nymets22@gmail.com

I have just updated the County Limerick Surname Registry on my website: http://www.connorsgenealogy.com/LIM/index.htm If you submitted a name, please check your entry for accuracy. If I have made a mistake or your data has changed, please email me using directions at the bottom of the surname registry page and I will make the corrections with my next update of the site. Also, if you have changed your email address, remember to let me know so I can change it when I do my next update (2-4 times a year). I cannot tell you enough times about how I get emails from possible connections looking for a new email address for one that no longer works. -- Pat Connors, Sacramento CA http://www.connorsgenealogy.com nymets22@gmail.com

Today's New York Times posted about this two-part Ken Burns special about baseball legend Jackie Robinson Tonight and Monday night at 9pm, PBS, but I can't find a specific TV station. Maybe someone else can? Barb

Getcher popcorn ready! Good shows, too many choices. We've got a back-to-back genie double header tonight on TLC = The Learning Channel [28 in metro NYC, Cablevision] 9pm: "Who Do You Think You Are?" Focus: Scott Foley 10pm: "Long Lost Family" Also, on PBS' New Jersey station, NJTV [8 in metro NYC, Cablevision] 8:30-10pm : "The Jewish Journey: America" Barb MizScarlettNY@aol.com

The Church of Ireland currently are getting their records online and they are free to see at: http://ireland.anglican.org/about/151 No all the Irish were Catholic, I have two branches that were not. -- Pat Connors, Sacramento CA http://www.connorsgenealogy.com nymets22@gmail.com

Thanks so much for all you do! -Maryland Irene (Melady and others) Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE DROID

On Sunday, April 10, 2016, Sheila MacAvoy Block via <ny-irish@rootsweb.com> wrote: > Fern, > > I took that course last year and found it challenging and worthwhile. I > could recommend it to anyone interested in the background to the Rising > and the subsequent Civil War in Ireland. > > Sheila > Santa Barbara CA > ====NY-Irish Mailing List==== > Don't forget to check out the NY-Irish mailing list website. Also, > check/add your NY-Irish surnames on the Surname Registry: > http://www.connorsgenealogy.com/NYIrishList/ > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > NY-IRISH-request@rootsweb.com <javascript:;> with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

Fern, I took that course last year and found it challenging and worthwhile. I could recommend it to anyone interested in the background to the Rising and the subsequent Civil War in Ireland. Sheila Santa Barbara CA

I have just deleted a number of posts that were held for my review because of size. They were extremely long due to all the repeated garbage that the senders neglected to delete or at least trim. When sending a post to the list that refers to a previous post to the list, please take care to delete most of the repeated post keeping just the sentence(s) that you are referring to. When answering/referring to a post that was part of a digest, remove all the stuff in the repeated digest that has nothing to do with what you are replying to. If you get your mail in digest format, and referring to a post in the digest, remove all the repeats posts in the digest that have nothing to do with your message. Also, if you send a post to the list and it doesn't post right away, DO NOT send another! If a post to the list is over the size I have set for the list, it will be held for my review. Sometimes, I deem it okay and send it to the list, other times, if I think the repeated stuff needs editing, I send it back to the sender. Have patience when your post is not immediately posted to the list. I live in California, so busy people may have posted in NY in the morning and I do not see it for hours later. If you sent it at 9 am EST, it is 6 am here and I am snoring away in my bed. I do not get up till 9am or later (retired) and then have to feed my cats, make my coffee, etc. before looking at the posts to the lists. So it would be afternoon in NY before I am checking the posts that were held for my review. DO NOT send another exact post because your original one hadn't made it to the list yet. -- Pat Connors, Sacramento CA, list admin http://www.connorsgenealogy.com nymets22@gmail.com

Hello all! I am participating in a free online course through futurelearn.com and Trinity College, Dublin about this very topic. Covers the time period from 1912 to 1923. If anyone is interested here's the intro: The main focus of this course is to consider how life was lived through war and revolution. To achieve this, the course will focus on key areas of life and ask how they may or may not have been affected by the turbulent political and military events of the 1912 to 1923 period. Over the next six weeks, we will explore people’s fighting lives, their political lives, their economic lives, their social lives, and finally their private lives. We will investigate the ways in which war and revolution may or may not have impinged on each of these areas of life. The course is excellent and I understand they offer it every year. Fern Sent from my iPad > On Mar 31, 2016, at 9:04 PM, mizscarlettny via <ny-irish@rootsweb.com> wrote: > > > Thanks so much, Virginia. To me, PBS is one of the most trustworthy sources. > > This whole "Easter 1916" topic has me by the throat. The more research I do, the more it upsets me. > > Of course I cheer for my ancestors' retrieval of rights taken away circa Cromwell, [religious freedom, formal education, property > ownership, etc [[search Hedge Schools and English manorships]], but... > > l) The people aka the general potential voting population did not endorse the Easter 1916 Uprising. Livelihoods of the few > were risked by judgment of a few. It was not put up for a vote of the populace, yet... > > 2) The leaders were bold politicos who risked their lives to reinstate privileges to the common, aka RC, populace, but... > > 3) Today's commemorative events appear *to me* as typical European ploys to extract and attract American dollars. > This makes is a personal turn-off. Obviously the Easter Uprising of 1916 has a significant historical place in the lives of > Irish Diaspora era peoples, especially Roman Catholics, but it feels that commemorations are a hyperbole, not of its > impact, but of its superficial aspects. It's like memorializing the sensationalism of rebellion and war, versus confirming > basic human rights, then profiteering from the exaggeration. > > > > > > > > Barb > > MizScarlettNY@aol.com > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: VLB via <vlbcfb@yahoo.com, > > PBS is showing a three-hour special on the Rising. It's called "1916, The Irish Rebellion". It is being shown tonight and several times over the next week. Times may vary on public TV stations in different areas. It is narrated by Liam Neeson and was sponsored by Notre Dame. It is also being shown on Irish TV on RTE and the BBC. It is a vast project with filming in many places.Google the title but it sounds as if it is not to be missed. Would enjoy hearing people's opinions after they have seen it. Virginia > > ====NY-Irish Mailing List==== > Don't forget to check out the NY-Irish mailing list website. Also, check/add your NY-Irish surnames on the Surname Registry: http://www.connorsgenealogy.com/NYIrishList/ > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NY-IRISH-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Oh gosh, it looks nothing like that in my sent mail! So Sorry! To summarize: The non-profit group Reclaim the Records (https://www.reclaimtherecords.org/) has put its first records online at the Internet Archive. The index to the NYC Clerk's Marriage Records, 1908-1929 (which are distinct from the Department of Health marriage records as indexed by IGG) is now available at https://archive.org/details/nycmarriageindex. More information on the differences in the record sets is available here: https://archive.org/details/NYC_Marriage_Index_Brooklyn_1919, but essentially these records should cover the same couples, but be longer and include more information about them. I've picked a test case couple from my own family, where I already have the Health Department marriage certificate, and am ordering the City Clerk's marriage record to see what it actually contains and evaluate how useful it will be to pursue for other ancestors. If anyone has already accessed City Clerk's marriage records for this time period, I'd be interested in hearing about them. Kathleen http://whereyoucamefrom.blogspot.com/

Reclaim the Records has put their first record set online! (Most of) The index to the NYC City Clerk's marriage records (1908-1929) is now available at https://archive.org/details/nycmarriageindex. These records are separate from the marriage records already indexed by IGG, GGG, etc. More details on the distinction is available here: https://archive.org/details/NYC_Marriage_Index_Brooklyn_1919. I just found and am about to order the record for my most puzzling couple in this time period. Once I get it and can see what information it contains, I'll evaluate whether it's worthwhile to order them for all of my early 20th century NYC ancestors. Kathleen http://whereyoucamefrom.blogspot.com/ ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Reclaim The Records <newsletter@reclaimtherecords.org> Date: Fri, Apr 8, 2016 at 5:25 PM Subject: Reclaim The Records: The NYC Marriage Index 1908-1929 Goes Online! To: Kathleen Naylor <kathleen.scarlett.ohara@gmail.com> *RECLAIM THE RECORDS* *"Public data for public use"* View this email in your browser <http://us11.campaign-archive2.com/?u=5f700fdc65a51d3813e67dab2&id=efb8c131b0&e=e34dcfd172> Our eighth newsletter: The 1908-1929 NYC marriage index goes online for free public use It took one Freedom of Information Law (FOIL) request, one modification of that FOIL request, one FOIL Appeal, one Advisory Opinion issued by the New York State Committee on Open Government, one "Article 78" legal petition filed in the Supreme Court of the State of New York, one legal settlement with the City of New York, 46 brand new microfilm copies created from the master films held in one city agency's vault and another two films from another city agency's vault, one portable hard drive full of high-quality digital scans of the 48 films donated by a kind non-profit organization, several days working in the headquarters of another non-profit to borrow their Internet bandwidth and hard drive space, and sixteen months. 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Many Ancestry.com index pages have a feature over to the right that says "View Printer Friendly." When you click on it, the essential information is formatted into a neat list. It's a handy communication tool. You can copy and paste the results into a post on list, when asking for help, and you can print it as a reminder to yourself of where you stopped researching. Now, let's see how it travels through Roostweb. New York, Passenger Lists, 1820-1957 Name: Bridget Culhane Arrival Date: 28 Apr 1898 Birth Date: 1877 Age: 21 Gender: Female Ethnicity/ Nationality: Irish Port of Departure: Queenstown, Ireland Port of Arrival: New York, New York Ship Name: Teutonic Barb MizScarlettNY@aol.com

Hi Fern. Sorry it's taken me a bit to get to this, but I wanted to take a look at some of the records first. The 1865 state census for the Janes family shows four of the five children listed as being born in Richmond Co. possibly in Castleton where the census was taken. The approximate birth dates for these children are 1853, 1858, 1860 & 1864 (depending on the month they were born in), which would lead me to think that the family was in Richmond Co. at the time of the 1860 census. But, they are nowhere to be found in that census. I used all the tricks I could think of (some that Barb listed and a few others), but they just don't show up. So I looked up some of their neighbors who were nearby to them in 1865. I found the Steers family and the Clute family living near each other in 1860, but no sign of the Janes family. However, there is a dwelling just after the Clutes listed as 'unoccupied'. It's possible that the family lived in that 'unoccupied' dwelling, but weren't home at the time of the census. I don't know if 'unoccupied' means no one is actually living there, or if it just means that no one was home at that time and the census taker never went back. One other thing I wanted to mention. There are five towns in Richmond Co. in the 1860 census. It's always possible they were in one of the other four and not in Castleton in 1860. I wish I could have been of more help to you. Maybe someone else on the List would have some other ideas for you. Terry -----Original Message----- From: ny-irish-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:ny-irish-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of iamfernie22 via Sent: Sunday, April 03, 2016 3:43 PM Hi, My g,g-grandfather, Francis Janes, lived at 182 Madison St, N. Y. C in 1851 and 1854 according to naturalization records. I can't find him in censuses until the 1865 N. Y. State census as Frank Geans living on Staten Island, which is where the family stayed. I am willing to look page by page in the 1860 census if I knew how to locate the lower East Side area to barrow things down a bit. I realize he and the family might have been missed given the tenement situation. Thank you, Fern