You can tell it is Saturday because I am sending a lot of email. Here is something interesting from the newest Rootsweb Review: SEARCH THE ROOTSWEB SURNAME LIST (RSL) BY E-MAIL. Want to search the RSL's more than 600,000 surnames submitted by more than 100,000 researchers, but you don't have Web access and so you can not go to <http://rsl.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/rslsql.cgi>? Now you do not need Web access. Just write an e-mail with the surnames you are researching in the body of the message, one surname per line, and send it to <rsl-search@rootsweb.com>.

I saw this on another list and thought it was valuable to pass on: Just a quick note to let everyone know about the new Surname Resource pages at RootsWeb. The page that will lead you to each surname is at: http://resources.rootsweb.com/surnames/ Check it out :) The pages contain lots of valuable links for each surname. Pat

cuig An Meitheamh, De' Sathairn,( 5 June,Saturday), or in Manx, queig Mean Souree, Jesarn In 1723 Adam Smith , Scottish author of The Wealth of Nations was born. In 1819 John Conch Adams, Cornish astronomer and discoverer of the planet Neptune, was born.(Speaking of which, I have spent so many evenings in my basement office lately that I have lost track of the planets. Is that Mars or Saturn that is now sitting next to Spica in the constellation Virgo? It looks reddish so it may be Mars.) In 1868 James Connolly, Irish revolutionary hero was born in Edinburgh, Scotland. He was a founder of the Socialist Republican Party (1898)and was one of seven signers of the Poblecht n hEirean ( Proclamation of the Irish Republic) in 1916. "Irishmen and Irishwomen! In the name of God and of the dead generations from which she receives the old tradition of nationhood, Ireland, through us, summons her children to her flag, and strikes for her freedom... (it goes on for several more paragraphs and is signed by by Thomas J. Clarke, Seam MacDiermada, Thomas MacDonough, P.H. Pearse, Eamonn Ceannt, Joseph Plunkett and Connolly)

Just read your post and wondered if Agnes O'CONNOR/O'CONNER ... or the name ALPHOSINE or ALPHOUSINE as a first, middle, or last name ... or the last name of FOERST relate to your Chicago O'Connors? If so, my husband's grandmother may be part of the branch you are seeking, so please write back to us at: jtwiswall@compuserve.com .

Unsubscribe Rena Courville Smith P. O. Box 813 Balboa, CA 92661 http://home.att.net/~renasmith -----Original Message----- From: OCONNOR-TIPP-D-request@rootsweb.com [mailto:OCONNOR-TIPP-D-request@rootsweb.com] Sent: Sunday, May 30, 1999 4:21 AM To: OCONNOR-TIPP-D@rootsweb.com Subject: OCONNOR-TIPP-D Digest V99 #44 << Message: ATT00002.eml (399 bytes) >> << Message: [OCONNOR-TIPP-L] Add your surnames (1.05 KB) >>

--part1_dffb16b7.24857845_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In a message dated 6/1/99 1:05:38 PM Eastern Daylight Time, TPOC writes: Subj: Check out O'Connors of MA and RI Date: 6/1/99 1:05:38 PM Eastern Daylight Time From: <A HREF="mailto:TPOC">TPOC</A> Hi everybody; I have put together a single purpose home page because I don't know of any easy way to get done what I want done. That is; to publicize a picture that includes members of a long lost branch of my paternal O'Connors who family lore says lived in the Chicago area in the early 1900s.. I am hoping that those of you with web pages with O'Connor content will add the following link which will lead to the picture and more particulars. I am copying family members and others who might be interested. <A HREF="http://hometown.aol.com/tpoc/myhomepage/heritage.html">Click here: O'Connors of MA and RI </A> Thank you for any consideration. Tom O'Connor --part1_dffb16b7.24857845_boundary Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Disposition: inline Return-path: TPOC@aol.com From: TPOC@aol.com Full-name: TPOC Message-ID: <dffb16b7.24856ce2@aol.com> Date: Tue, 1 Jun 1999 13:05:38 EDT Subject: Check out O'Connors of MA and RI To: TPOC@aol.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: AOL 4.0 for Windows 95 sub 10 <A HREF="http://hometown.aol.com/tpoc/myhomepage/heritage.html">Click here: O'Connors of MA and RI </A> --part1_dffb16b7.24857845_boundary--

Hi all, I just looked at the Rootsweb Surname list for the O'Connors from Tipperary on only found a few names there. Here is the url: http://rsl.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/rslsql.cgi Once you get to the site, put O'Connor in surname space and Tip in the location. Then you will get a list of all the O'Connors from Tipperary. If your search is not listed, you can then click on Add your Surnames to the RSL. You would be surprised how many people contact me because they found my surname at this site. Try it, it may help. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Pat (Patraigin) Connors, California Siochain Leat (peace be with you) Researching: Connors/O'Connor, McEntee, Campbell, Flynn/O'Flynn, Smith, Phillips, Carter, Boyle, O'Rourke, Healey, Cullinan, Hoare, Todd, Owen, Booth, Gallagher, Fahey, Ryan http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/c/o/n/Pat-Connors/ mailto:nymets@pcweb.net Volunteer of Random Genealogical Kindness at http://www.rootsweb.com/~tnraogk/index.htm ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

This was recently sent to me and I want you all to know about this new exciting tool made possible by Rootsweb: Hi, listowners -- This is an early announcement of an upcoming service that's likely to be of interest to our listowners. One of the requests we get most often from RootsWebbers is for better navigation tools. RootsWeb provides a dizzying assortment of surname-oriented research resources, so much that it can be overwhelming to even the experienced user. Folks are constantly asking us if there's some way to unify the Websites, mailing lists, RSL entries, and GenConnect boards together in a single resource. We're extremely proud to let you know that now they can. We've created 5,000 new "Surname Resources," a new way to navigate RootsWeb's surname offerings. These are *not* yet public -- We'll be announcing them in the 26 May edition of the RootsWeb Review -- but we wanted to give our list and GenConnect board administrators a first chance to look at the new Resources. What *is* a Surname Resource? Although these new resources are still under construction, they are operational. Stop by http://resources.rootsweb.com/surnames/ and feel free to explore. These Surname Resources cover the 5,000 most common surnames from the RootsWeb Surname List. Many of them are completely new -- we created more than 3,000 new mailing lists just for this project. (We may even do the next 5,000-15,000 most common surnames!) The new lists and GC Boards are presently administered by a few (extremely busy!) RootsWeb staff members, but eventually we'll take volunteers to adopt them. We're still working out the details, but we will definitely give preference to folks who already administer existing mailing lists and surname boards for the same names. When we're ready to take that step, we'll announce it here. So look around, have fun, and let us know what you think! -- Regards, Tim Pierce RootsWeb Genealogical Data Cooperative system obfuscator and hack-of-all-trades

Hi all, I came back to over 1000 messages after being gone for five days! But, got the last one graduated from college and pretty happy. Here's one message, I would like to pass on: Hi everyone, I have just started a mail list for everyone who wants to find help in getting photos of their families headstones. To subscribe to the list simple send a message to CEMETERY-PHOTOS-L-request@rootsweb.com with the word subscribe and you will be added to the list. You don't have to be a professional photographer just someone who has a camera and would not mind taking pictures for other people who can't make it to your area of the world and vice versa. I hope a lot of you will give it this list a try and I hope that you will be able to find someone to help you. The larger the list gets the better chance you will have of finding someone to help you. Thank you for reading this message. Paula Easton CEMETERY-PHOTOS-L Listowner If anyone has a cemetery somewhere in the Sacramento, Marysville, Chico, Eureka area in California, email me privately and I'll see what I can do. Pat Connors, Listowner

Hi all, I just wanted to inform all of you that I will be out of town until next Monday. So if you write to me or have asked for a GV lookup, it will take a while before I can answer. If anyone is having trouble unsubscribing, I suggest you read your welcome notice, it has all the instructions or you will have to wait until I get back. I am not unsubbing so will have lots of mail waiting when I get back. Pat Connors, Listowner

I've just done another 30 GV lookups and want to warn you that if you request one after tomorrow it will take two weeks because I will be out of town next weekend. We currently have 45 members to the list. If any are new and don't know what GV is, I suggest you read the OConnor-Tipp list archives. Also, if you put in a location within a county, put only Civil Parishes. If you don't know, just give me the county. I need help. I will be out of town (NY and Ireland) for the months of July and August and need someone to take over my listowner duties. The way I do it, it really requires little work. Please email me if you are interested. Hope you all have a great weekend. Slan go foill, Pat

Ron Cushman from the Ireland list posted this today and graciously allowed it to be copied to other lists. I suggest that anyone who wishes to enquire about what is on a CD, do the following, to obtain FREE searches: Please do a search of either "The Master Name Index" or the "Family Finder Index" (FamilyTree Maker) for your subject name. OR try the On-line Family Finder Index , http://www.familytreemaker.com/cdhome.html . (ONLY THESE, NOT the simlarly named Family Research /Report that can be generated.) Please copy, for inclusion in your request, the information found on the above search. This indicates to the volunteers that the name is found on this CD (and that you have checked). These 2 Master Name Index/Family Name Index are the same CDs, just different companies, and will tell you if your subject's name appears on any disk and will provide the number of the disk(s) to look into further. With the CD numbers in hand, you can visit the vollunteer CD lookup page: http://genweb.net/~gen-cds/cdlist.html to find out who is volunteering to do lookups on that CD. In most cases, you can click on the volunteer name/email address to send a request. ***IMPORTANT***: PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, read (and observe) the rules posted on the volunteers page. As one of the volunteers listed, I certainly appreciate it when requestors do so... - you may also want to read descriptions of the CD's where your name was found, on the Family Tree Maker site, ( http://www.familytreemaker.com/ ), to become familiar with what each CD holds. This will set your expecations, and enable you to supply useful information for the volunteer to use in searching for you. Ron (permission granted to copy this info to other lists...just make sure the same info has not recently been covered, please.)

I just sent out over 30 lookups. Thank you to those who asked for just a surname and a county when you knew it. I know you got what you asked for. However, some were not clear to me and I had to guess so if you got something different than you expected, resend your request, but this time just the surname and the county if you know it. Also, if you ask for a specific area, please limit it to the CIVIL PARISH only because that is how the index is arranged. If you don't know whether you have a civil or religious parish, just use the county. slan go foill, (bye for now) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Pat (Patraigin) Connors, California Siochain Leat (peace be with you)

> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Subject: HELLO EVERYONE I'M LOOKING FOR MARGARET&JOHN O'CONNOR > Date: Sat, 08 May 1999 21:08:51 -0500 > From: Matt <msimkule@fcg.net> > To: 0CONNOR-TIPP-L@rootsweb.com > > HELLO FROM ILLINOIS. > > Hi my name is Dave Sullivan and we are going to IRELAND the first week > of June. > My O'CONNOR connection is as follows. LOTT SULLIVAN came CO. CLARE to > the USA and then to Illinois in about 1848 with two of his sons JAMES > and DENNIS. Another son ( also named LOTT) came shortly after in about > 1852. Most of the family spent 2-4 years in New York state and > Pennsylvania prior to central Illinois. The name LOTT was used in our > family for many generations. > > LOTT was married to MARGARET O'CONNOR the daughter of JOHN O'CONNOR > > In a family Bio it indicated that MARGARET had passed away in Ireland > and is believed to be buried near Killaloe or in that general area. She > was apparently a Irish scholar who had been a diligent student of her > father JOHN O'CONNOR who had been trained for the priesthood and who > was given apparently unusually superior advantages in education. JOHN > was the only son of JOHN O'COONOR who was married to a SALLIE McGRAW > > MARGARET had at least 2 sisters > > BRIDGET the oldest married PATRICK COFFEE > ELIZABETH married JOHN DUCY > The only brother was WILLIAM who died unmarried > > It is believed that they came from CO CLARE and LOTT had worked for > SIMON PURDIN who lived a few miles north of KILLALOE in the TINARANA > HOUSE > The PURDIN family owned over 6000 acres mostly in CLARE. > > If anyone can help I would like to say hello to the ones that are still > in Co. CLARE next month.

This is very important and I hope all of you take the time to heed it's message: When we launched RootsWeb, we assumed that our users would prefer to support us as much as they were able, in exchange for a site open to all, without banners plastered all over everything and without having resources locked up (as is done at other genealogy sites), available only for fees on the order of $60 per year. Instead, people can support RootsWeb for as little as $12 per year. We thus hoped that a reasonable fraction of our users, perhaps half of them, would support us in some way. And because we expected support from the community, we made promises to projects like USGenWeb that we would freely host them for the good of the Internet genealogy community. We have no intention of reneging on those early promises, but it has been difficult, because the community support we anticipated has not been there. Although people use the site like crazy, fewer than 7% of our users have chipped in to keep things going. The other 93%? Perhaps they're busy, or they're broke, or they won't pay unless they have to, or they don't think RootsWeb is useful. Who knows? But it means that RootsWeb has run at a cash flow loss. In simple terms, Karen Isaacson and Brian Leverich have donated not only their time as system administrators but a substantial part of their personal resources to provide the genealogical community with RootsWeb. The rest of RootsWeb's staff have also made substantial contributions. Because RootsWeb's costs exceed its income, we can't provide all the genealogical facilities we'd like to support. These could include online searchable databases of pension records, census indexes, vital records, or countless other valuable genealogical services that we could easily provide -- if only we could afford the staff to support them. And, ultimately, RootsWeb can't even continue to exist if we don't bring our costs and revenues into balance, something we want to have under control before the transition to non-profit status (as opposed to losing money status) is completed. We are doing what we can to remedy the situation. For instance, we are selling banner advertisements where we can. However, this alone will never provide enough revenue to cover the costs of the unbannered volunteer projects which consume most of RootsWeb's resources yet by their very nature produce no direct revenue, even as they provide invaluable content to the genealogical community. The new communities, from their inception, will be fully supported by advertising. They will be paying their own way. We can shift some of the costs of maintaining the Web, mailing list, GenConnect, and search engine servers onto the new communities, so that the new communities will subsidize a genealogical community that hasn't been supporting itself. Although we have been disappointed in the amount of financial support of the genealogical community, we would like to express our deep gratitude to the writer of the letter above and the other 7% of our users who have helped make RootsWeb available to the whole community. Without their support and encouragement, there would be no RootsWeb. If you would like to join the folks who are making RootsWeb possible and thus help us bring new genealogical data online, freely available to all, please visit: <http://www.rootsweb.com/rootsweb/how-to-subscribe.html> or send e-mail to: RW-info@rootsweb.com

I am seeking info on my great grandmother.All I have for info so far is: MATILDA G. CONNORS (Parents names unknown) b.4-12-1852 Ireland d.9-27-1932 Berwick, ME She migrated to the US-date unknown- settled in Buffalo, NY Married Mitchel (Michael) Burke -date and place unknown Had 5 children: Hugh-b? Leo-b? Mary Gertrude-(My grandmother) b.1-29-1882 Buffalo, NY Estella G. b.12-8-1883 Buffalo, NY James A.-b.10-22-1887Buffalo, NY

I came across the following site on another list. It explains how to do a genealogical search at an LDS Family History Library or on their beta Familysearch.com site. Using an FHL is probably the only way some of us can research our ancestors because we live so far away from where they originated and and where they settled. I drive over an hour and across two mountain summits to get to the one closest to me. During the winter I don't go much because of the snow but the weather is great now and I have ordered films from County Mayo, and Yonkers, NY and can't wait to see them next week. So, here is the helpful site. Hope you all find it useful. http://www1.familysearch.org/sg/how-to.html Pat (Patraigin) Connors, California Siochain Leat (peace be with you)

Hi all, I haven't heard much from anyone lately and know that we have 45 members to this list. So how about I start a role call, which is that everyone list their O'Connor/Connor ancestor and see if any of us are related. I have the following O'Connor members: Edmund, b ca 1808, arrived in NYC 1847 Jeremiah, b ca 1819, arrived in NYC 1848 John, b ca 1818, arrived in NYC August 1847 Patrick, b ca 1826,arrived in NYC March 27, 1854 Redmund, b ca 1816,arrived in NYC 1837 Timothy, b ca 1810, arrived in NYC 1864 William, b ca 1819, arrived in NYC November 15, 1844 or 1849 They are all brothers, uncles or cousins and are from the Tipperary/Limerick border area of Doon Civil Parish. They all ended up in Troy NY (across the river from Albany). Timothy is my gggrandfather and was married to Catherine Ryan from Cappamore, Limerick. They had at least three children: Mary, Margaret and James, my ggrandfather. Timothy's father and mother were: Bryan O'Connor and Ann Gallagher. Any connections out there? Slan go foill (bye for now), Pat (Patraigin) Connors, California Siochain Leat (peace be with you)

I am offering to do lookups. For those who don't know what the GV is, here is an explanation: According to the cd put out by Broderbund: "It references more than one million individuals who occupied property in Ireland between 1848 and 1864. Since no Irish census of the nineteenth century has survived, Griffiths Valuation is a record of extreme importance....can be used to identify an Irish ancestor's exact place of origin, and on Griffith's Valuation links an individual to a specific townland and civil parish." If you request a lookup, all I need is the name and county if you know it. It only has head of householders, so your person should be an adult during this period to be listed. Wives are not listed, unless they are widows. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Pat (Patraigin) Connors, California Siochain Leat (peace be with you) Researching: Connors/O'Connor, McEntee, Campbell, Flynn/O'Flynn, Smith, Phillips, Carter, Boyle, O'Rourke, Healey, Cullinan, Hoare, Todd, Owen, Booth, Gallagher, Fahey, Ryan http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/c/o/n/Pat-Connors/ mailto:nymets@pcweb.net Volunteer of Random Genealogical Kindness at http://www.rootsweb.com/~tnraogk/index.htm ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

I came across the following site on another list. It explains how to do a genealogical search at an LDS Family History Library or on their beta Familysearch.com site. Using an FHL is probably the only way some of us can research our ancestors because we live so far away from where they originated and and where they settled. I drive over an hour and across two mountain summits to get to the one closest to me. During the winter I don't go much because of the snow but the weather is great now and I have ordered films from County Mayo, and Yonkers, NY and can't wait to see them next week. So, here is the helpful site. Hope you all find it useful. http://www1.familysearch.org/sg/how-to.html Pat (Patraigin) Connors, California Siochain Leat (peace be with you)