Article about Hart's Island with excellent photos in UK newspaper online. dailymail.com Scroll down to find article. Kelly

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2616584/The-Island-Lost-Souls-Heartbreaking-truth-cemetery-coast-New-York-one-womans-journey-pay-respects-dead-daughter.html On Apr 30, 2014, at 12:39 PM, Kelly <[email protected]> wrote: > Article about Hart's Island with excellent photos in > UK newspaper online. > dailymail.com > Scroll down to find article. > > Kelly > ====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 [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

From my research, a few NYC islands are of particular interest to Irish American researchers. Hart Island...possible burial ground of Irish Civil War soldiers http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2616584/The-Island-Lost-Souls-Heartbreaking-truth-cemetery-coast-New-York-one-womans-journey-pay-respects-dead-daughter.html Blackwell's/Welfare/ Roosevelt Island [NY Co.]...Irish in asylums 1903 film by Thomas A. Edison> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=983VKM3Qdms Staten Island [Richmond Co.] Hospital mass burials connected with immigrants http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/26/nyregion/refugees-of-irish-famine-to-get-a-proper-burial.html?_r=0 To think our Irish didn't suffer enough in their native land, then in the USA to be sacrificed for some cause or another. Sad. Does anyone know what county Hart Island is in? Thanks, Barb