FIANNA has a good study guide to Irish genealogy offering more than 500 pages to help you find your Irish roots. http://www.rootsweb.com/~fianna/ Ellen [email protected] wrote: >Could someone explain to me what the Flax List is, and how it can be used >for information? I also keep seeing >"Griffith's Valation" everywhere, and don't know anything about that, >either. Any information or help, greatly appreciated. > >----- Forwarded by Elizabeth M Burkhart/Headquarters/USS on 11/11/2002 >12:50 PM ----- > > [email protected] > otsweb.com To: [email protected] > cc: > 11/11/2002 03:08 AM Subject: SHAMROCK-D Digest V02 #321 > Please respond to > SHAMROCK-L > > > > > > >MIME-version: 1.0 >Content-type: text/plain > >SHAMROCK-D Digest Volume 02 : Issue 321 > >Today's Topics: > #1 [SH] Affidavits & Cemeteries? [[email protected]] > #2 [SH] MURRAY Names Changed in Massa ["David N Murray" ><[email protected]] > #3 [SH] Scally Family Roscommon ["Charles and Kathie Fechter" ><cfec] > >Administrivia: > >**TO POST A MESSAGE TO THE LIST** >send it to [email protected] > >TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM DIGEST or Change to regular mail mode, see the >information on http://community.webtv.net/shamrockroots/subunsub > >SHAMROCK ROOTS homepage >http://community.webtv.net/shamrockroots/SHAMROCKROOTS > > >______________________________ > >Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit >Date: Sun, 10 Nov 2002 08:10:21 EST >From: [email protected] >Subject: [SH] Affidavits & Cemeteries? >To: [email protected] >Message-id: <[email protected]> >MIME-version: 1.0 >Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" >X-Message: #1 > >Hi list, > > In the past, I have always asked, at the cemetery office, who pays >for the perpetual care or for the upkeep of the graves. This helps you >find other relatives, (mostly ones still living). Of course I would ask >who purchase the lot & who now owns it. Now, I know to ask for >affidavits, too! :) > > I sent to Woodlawn Cemetery, in the Bronx, for records. When I >received the info I received something I never thought of pertaining to >the owners of cemetery lots -- affidavits. The affidavits show who the >cemetery lots were handed down to through the family -- giving the >person's name(s) & relationships. Interesting! With genealogy you >learn something new all the time. :) > > Happy hunting, Helen (DCGS) > >______________________________ > >Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable >Date: Sun, 10 Nov 2002 10:16:19 -0500 >From: "David N Murray" <[email protected]> >Subject: [SH] MURRAY Names Changed in Massachusetts 1780-1883 >To: [email protected] >Message-id: <[email protected]> >MIME-version: 1.0 >X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by lists2.rootsweb.com >id gAB881U1029053 >Content-type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" >X-Message: #2 > >List of Persons whose Names Have Been Changed in Massachusetts 1780-1883. >Published in Boston by Wright & Potter >15 Post Office Square >Boston, Massachusetts >1885 > >ADOPTED NAMES - MURRAY > >County: Berkshire >Date of Decree: February 3, 1880 >Original Name: Delia JEANETTE >Adopted Name: Delia MURRAY >Residence: Adams >Note: Changed by reason of adoption. > >County: Middlesex >Date of Decree: November 7, 1881 >Original Name: James MORONEY >Adopted Name: James MURRAY >Residence: Waltham >Note: Changed by reason of adoption. > >County: Middlesex >Date of Decree: November 7, 1881 >Original Name: Eliza MORONEY >Adopted Name: Eliza MURRAY >Residence: Waltham >Note: Changed by reason of adoption. > >County: Norfolk >Date of Decree: May 4, 1852 >Original Name: Patrick MURRAY >Adopted Name: James MURRAY >Residence: East Bridgewater > >County: Lincoln >Date of Decree: June 24 1806 >Original Name: Robert CUNNINGHAM >Adopted Name: Robert MURRAY >Residence: New Castle >"that Robert CUNNINGHAM, a minor and grandson of David MURRAY, of the town >of New Castle, be allowed to take the name of Robert MURRAY". > >County: Suffolk >Date of Decree: August 1, 1870 >Original Name: Sarah Erving HUDSON >Adopted Name: Sarah Hudson MURRAY >Residence: Boston >Note: Changed by reason of adoption. > >County: Middlesex >Date of Decree: November 21, 1854 >Original Name: Thomas Francis MAGUIRE >Adopted Name: Thomas Francis MURRAY >Residence: Somerville >Note: Changed by reason of adoption. > >County: Bristol >Date of Decree: May 6, 1870 >Original Name: John C. VALDANS >Adopted Name: William C. MURRAY >Residence: New Bedford > >ORIGINAL NAMES - MURRAY > >County: Suffolk >Date of Decree: March 28, 1881 >Original Name: Arthur MURRAY >Adopted Name: Arthur Murray GROUT >Residence: Boston >Note: Changed by reason of adoption. > >County: Middlesex >Date of Decree: August 8, 1854 >Original Name: Augustus P. MURRAY >Adopted Name: Charles Fairbanks MORSE >Residence: Hopkinton >Note: Changed by reason of adoption. > >County: Suffolk >Date of Decree: June 7, 1880 >Original Name: Catherine MURRAY >Adopted Name: Ellen O'NEIL >Residence: Boston > >County: Essex >Date of Decree: March 7, 1854 >Original Name: Catherine MURRAY >Adopted Name: Adelaide Herbert ROBINSON >Residence: Lynn > >County: Berkshire >Date of Decree: September 6, 1886 >Original Name: Hattie Augusta MURRAY >Adopted Name: Hattie Augusta FRENCH >Residence: Pittsfield > >County: Essex >Date of Decree: September 1, 1868 >Original Name: John George MURRAY >Adopted Name: George Murray FOSTER >Residence: Peabody >Note: Changed by reason of adoption. > >County: Norfolk >Date of Decree: May 4, 1852 >Original Name: Patrick MURRAY >Adopted Name: James MURRAY >Residence: East Bridgewater > >County: Suffolk >Date of Decree: September 14, 1874 >Original Name: Susan A. MURRAY >Adopted Name: Susan A. LIBBY >Residence: Boston >Note: Changed by reason of adoption. > > >Hope this helps someone. >Dave Murray > >______________________________ >Date: Sun, 10 Nov 2002 13:52:00 -0600 >From: "Charles and Kathie Fechter" <[email protected]> >Subject: [SH] Scally Family Roscommon >To: [email protected] >Message-id: <[email protected]> >MIME-version: 1.0 >Content-type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" >X-Message: #3 > > >My Grandfather, Thomas Scally was born on 10/20/ 1893 in Carrowbehy, which >is in the county of Roscommon, in the Barony of FrenchPark, the Parish of >Tibohine, the PLU Castlereagh and the Province on Connaught. From Thomas's >birth certificate, I know his parents were William and Elenor Boyne. Birth >was recorded in the District of Ballaghadeaaen, the registrar's District of >Caskleea, in the county of Mayo and Roscommon. I am sure these spellings >are incorrect. I also have a copy of the baptismal certificate, for the >Diocese of Elphin, in the Parish of Longhglynn. The godparents were Hubert >and Catherine Kane. > > > >I know from the 1901 census, that William was a farmer, Ann Regan, listed >as mother lived with them and there were now four children. Thomas, Thady, >Anne and Michael. From my grandfather Thomas, Elenor died young and William >remarried. There were three more sons from the second wife. All four of the >children from Elenor came to American in the 1920's and never went back to >visit. The three sons from the second marriage did not marry and stayed in >Ireland. > > > >This is all the information I have of my relatives in Ireland. I am coming >to visit in early spring next year and would like to visit in that area and >find out more about our Ireland family, but I really have no idea where to >go and even where to stay. > > > >Any information you could give about the area, or the Scally family would >be helpful. > > > > > >==== SHAMROCK Mailing List ==== >** To find a location in Ireland, use >the IreAtlas Townland Database >http://www.seanruad.com and/or >Placename Search >http://www.ireland.com/ancestor/place >name.index.cfm ** > > __________________________________________________________________ The NEW Netscape 7.0 browser is now available. Upgrade now! http://channels.netscape.com/ns/browsers/download.jsp Get your own FREE, personal Netscape Mail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com/