Joy Rich wrote: > You absolutely do have my permission, Fiona. Thank you for letting > other people know about B-Ann's passing. > > Joy > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Jim Garrity <mailto:jimgarrity@earthlink.net> > To: Joy Rich-Earthlink <mailto:joyrichny@earthlink.net> > Sent: Sunday, March 02, 2008 9:54 PM > Subject: [Re: [NYNEWYOR] A Friend, B-Ann Moorhouse, Has Passed Away] > > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: Re: [NYNEWYOR] A Friend, B-Ann Moorhouse, Has Passed Away > Date: Sun, 02 Mar 2008 21:05:01 -0500 > From: Fiona Jones <mourneminers@optonline.net> > Reply-To: nynewyor@rootsweb.com > To: nynewyor@rootsweb.com > References: <47CB43FD.60408@earthlink.net> > > > >Joy - please may I have your permission to post this to the NIR-DOWN LIST if >you have not already done so. > >Fiona. >======= >IGP Co. Down Coordinator >http://www.rootsweb.com/~nirdow2/index.htm >Author of Miners of Mourne >http://www.fipacian.com/MinersofMourne.htm > >-----Original Message----- >From: nynewyor-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:nynewyor-bounces@rootsweb.com] >On Behalf Of Jim Garrity >Sent: Sunday, March 02, 2008 7:19 PM >To: nynewyor@rootsweb.com >Subject: [NYNEWYOR] A Friend, B-Ann Moorhouse, Has Passed Away > > >I write to you with a heavy heart about the passing of B-Ann Moorhouse. >B-Ann was a professional genealogist (and a CG) for several decades. She >was loved and respected by the enormous number of people whose lives she >touched. B-Ann was the epitome of kindness and graciousness. She >believed in people and encouraged them to fulfill their potential. She >was always eager to share - especially with the next generation of >professional genealogists and with librarians and archivists - the >astonishing amount of wisdom, knowledge, and insight she had in the >field of genealogy, particularly concerning Irish and colonial American >genealogy. Another area of great interest to B-Ann was the history of >African American families in Brooklyn. > >B-Ann was the founder in 1978 of the Ulster Historical Foundation's >Ulster Genealogical and Historical Guild, a research co-operative >established to link people worldwide who shared a common interest in >Irish genealogy. She also founded the Genealogy Workshop at the Brooklyn >Historical Society, which, at the time, was named the Long Island >Historical Society. She authored numerous articles for genealogical >publications, abstracted Kings County, New York, administration >proceedings and typed them on an extremely temperamental computer, and >created finding aids for New York City for several New York state censuses. > >She was given access to basements and storage rooms in New York City's >Municipal Archives (when it was still in the Tweed Courthouse), Brooklyn >Surrogate's Court, and the Long Island Historical Society. Left to her >own devices, she proceeded to rummage around and found hidden treasures >that she brought to light. > >B-Ann passed away on February 15, 2008, in Georgia. Her beloved niece, >Ann, who assured me that B-Ann died peacefully, moved her there last >year so that she could care for B-Ann in her last months. It will bring >a smile to your lips to know that, under Ann's care, our B-Ann of the >small frame gained sixteen pounds in six months. > >Soon before she moved to Georgia, Jim Garrity and I paid her what turned >out to be our final visit. We took her for a stroll on the promenade >in her Brooklyn Heights neighborhood and then out to dinner. We had a >wonderful time. It is just one of so many good memories of her that we >will have with us always. > >Ann has sent to The New York Times the obituary that B-Ann wrote about >herself. It will be published at >http://www.legacy.com/NYTimes/DeathNotices.asp . B-Ann will be dearly >missed by her friends and her family. > >Joy Rich >Brooklyn, NY > > >Jim Garrity, List Administrator >jimgarrity@earthlink.net >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >NYNEWYOR-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes >in the subject and the body of the message > >Jim Garrity, List Administrator >jimgarrity@earthlink.net >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NYNEWYOR-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > >