I recommend the novel "The Whitest Flower," by Brendan Graham, as a way to learn about the terrible circumstances in Ireland in the 1840s.  The story is told in the experiences of an Irish woman who is a survivor of what life threw at her.  Brendan Graham was inspired by three songs, he said in the foreword.  With over one hundred recordings, Brendan Graham's songs have enjoyed success across the world. Graham was born in County Tipperary in 1845 and lived in Australia for five years before returning to Dublin, where he lived at the time of publication. A former basketball international and a recipient of Australia's Lansing Bagnall Award for business studies, he has for many yeas been an activist on behalf of composers. He has served on FORTE, a task force formed to strengthen Ireland's music industry.   Nancy Johnsen Curran http://pages.prodigy.net/nancycurran Genealogy research and photography in the capital region of New York State

Does anyone know how to contact Barbara Jeffries? She used to have a great website where many church records were transcribed. The website has been down for several years now, but the last I heard, Barbara was still around, somewhere! She is not listed in the Capital Area phone book (not by her name or initial). The list of church records can still be found at the www.Olivetreegenealogy.com website, but every link is broken. It was such a valuable service, I just wish there was some way to contact her... Suggestions? Thanks, Rebecca

I thought I heard that she had passed on?? Kristin -----Original Message----- From: Rebecca Rector <rrector1@nycap.rr.com> To: ny-troy-irish-gensoc@rootsweb.com Sent: Wed, 13 Aug 2008 12:44 pm Subject: [NY-TROY-IRISH-GENSOC] Barbara Jeffries Does anyone know how to contact Barbara Jeffries? She used to have a great website where many church records were transcribed. The website has been down for several years now, but the last I heard, Barbara was still around, somewhere! She is not listed in the Capital Area phone book (not by her name or initial). The list of church records can still be found at the www.Olivetreegenealogy.com website, but every link is broken. It was such a valuable service, I just wish there was some way to contact her... Suggestions? Thanks, Rebecca ===NY-IRISH-GENSOC Mailing List=== Did you pay your 2008 Dues? Troy Irish Genealogy Society http://www.rootsweb.com/~nytigs/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NY-TROY-IRISH-GENSOC-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message