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Thanks, Murf. Just a rough idea, i.e. to within +/- 100mb.

Paddy

murf wrote:...But later we can do a stocktaking on the number we have.

Hi Murf,

Do you have a rough idea of the total number of mbytes of transcription data that are currently on this forum ?

Paddy

Many thanks, Sheila. Much appreciated. Paddy.

may be long shot post boy (man} telegraph boy regards mick oloughlin The Post Office has a history site at https://www.anpost.ie/AnPost/History+and+Heritage/Home/ Sounds as if much of their archive material was destroyed but they might be worth contacting. Best by phone call in my experience. Paddy C

Almost certainly. Coolreigh is in the parish of Kilnoe which is adjacent to the parish of Tomgraney (see parish maps at http://www.clarelibrary.ie/eolas/coclar ... es_map.htm). Coolreigh and Coolreagh sound identical when spoken (e.g. to a registry clerk).

Paddy

Blondie, It's difficult to give a clear answer without knowing what you have looked for online, what you have found and what your objectives are. However, you might like to check out the entry about the Clare Library Local Studies Centre at http://www.ourlibrary.ca/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=1548 I'...

Thanks for calling attention to this source, lenc. Have flagged it on the Clare Roots website at http://www.clareroots.org

Paddy

In a post yesterday at http://www.ourlibrary.ca/phpbb2/viewtop ... f=1&t=6841 Murf flagged that the EPPI website, which I had long given up for dead, is alive and kicking again. I did a couple of searches and found what I was looking for.

Paddy

Hi again Sheila I went back to the EPPI site to locate these stats, here's how: From the EPPI homepage at http://www.dippam.ac.uk/eppi In the search box put 1851 census clare........ I'm off-topic, Murf, but thanks for flagging that the EPPI site and, specifically, its Search facility, is back in b...

There are lots of books on the Great Famine, of course, but one that I found particularly evocative is Sable Wings over the Land by Ciarán Ó Murchadha (Clasp Press, ISBN 1 900545 05 5).

Paddy

Thanks for posting this, Sharon. Thought-provoking in a number of respects ("Leave notes behind - someone might read them"; "Never give up"; "Go to the top for a decision"; "Think you'll be forgotten ? Don't be too sure"; "Wall things up so that they will be found many years later"; etc. etc.). And ...

A poignant thumbnail at http://www.irelandxo.com/ireland-xo/history-and-genealogy/ancestor-database/katherine-mcnamara Husband goes off to join the Valdez goldrush in 1901 and wife Katherine begins identifying herself as a widow in 1901. Perhaps she had received news of his death. There were numerou...

Hi Sheila, That "10th Jan. 1845: Rebecca of John Arthur and Mary Verlin; sponsors: John Verlin, Eliza Arthur." caught my eye as my family is related to the Verlins in the 19th century. I put together some notes on the Verlin families at http://www.clarelibrary.ie/eolas/coclare/genealogy/don_tran/fam...

Thanks Sheila and Kerry for raising this topic. It caught my eye particularly because I had been interested in the Clare townland of Moyrhee Commons which, I had been told, was a place where anyone could settle and which therefore became a haven for the dispossessed and low-income families. The geog...

Then, I got to thinking about his "cause of death" while in the Ennis Lunatic Asylum ~ "marasmus of the brain"...... I learned that "marasmus" is defined as "malnutrition" but no medical article that I have read applies "marasmus" specifically to the brain ...... just the body and usually the patie...