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Thanks for posting this. Even though the chapters/essays are numerous, there are even more topics that I can think of. I like the approach that each subject has been the focus of a single researcher, and all are grouped together in a collection that is then worthwhile to purchase. It is also good to...

U. S. District Court for the Western District of New York, NARA M1677 record group, naturalizations Michael Malone petition 522238 14 Sep 1854; A. H. 7183529 Jeane Foley Dwyer's family, before surviving members moved to Iowa: LDS filming of St. Mary of the Cataract records (Niagara Falls NY) Cathari...

Rev. Michael Kane. S. J. “The people of Spencer may be justifiably proud of the honor and distinction earned by [Rev. Kane], as the town may with propriety call him one of her sons, though the first three months of his existence were spent in a small township in county Clare, Ireland. The influences...

Michael J. Keane “In the list of Chicago's most honored citizens...the name of Mr. Keane stands high. He was born in Ireland, Kilkee, County Clare, September 29, 1849, and as an infant of three weeks, left the old country. He is the son of...Simon Keane, forced to leave Ireland without an hour's del...

Freeman's Journal 14 Jan 1879 “We regret to announce the death, at his residence in Ennis, on the 12th instant, of the Very Rev. Dean Kenny, who had just entered upon his 88th year. Apart from his other claims to public notice, the fact that Dean Kenny was sixty-four years a priest, and the oldest V...

Galway Mercury reported in The Freeman's Journal 31 Mar 1853 “Every week is adding to the numbers who are flocking away to America and Australia from this part of Ireland. Not a day passes that large bodies of emigrants do not leave Galway by the trains; while from the lower part of the country, as ...

History of McHenry Couny (Munsell Pub. Co., Chicago, 1922) p. 653 “James S. Howard, one of the oldest native sons of Greenwood Township, and a prominent farmer of this county, was born on the farm he still occupies, October 14, 1844. He is the son of Matthew and Catherine (Short) Howard, natives of ...

Freeman's Journal 9 Nov 1881 “...list of evictions: Ballyvaughan Branch, county Clare, reports writs serve on John CASEY; rent, [pound sign] 80, valuation, [pound sign] 44, landlord, McNamara minors, Ennistymon. ... Feakle Branch, Clare reports writs served on Thomas GALLAGHER; rent, [pound sign] 21...

Freeman's Journal 16 Jul 1862 “Thursday, the steamship City of Washington...of the Liverpool, New York, and Philadelphia (Inman) Line...embarked from Queenstown fourteen cabin and two hundred forty-eight steerage passengers... making in all five hundred and ninety-eight passengers and crew. The clas...

Just so the outer world knows, I am sending you directly as text in emails (now that I have your real addy) the info in the attachment attempted in Open Office format. As to Melville, that does bring up some results via Google on the Clare County Library site, although those are limited to Kilrush i...

Word of the Vandeleur evictions had reached upstate New York, as evidenced in this brief article appearing on 14 Apr 1888 in The Oswego Palladium newspaper: "Arrangements have been made to evict 200 tenants of the Vandeleur estate in county Clare." Going back further in time, in the 9 Apr 1851 editi...

Remember when searching for Chicago deaths to see the posting of obituaries grouped with New Orleans, which has Chicago deaths in a pdf (none of those names appear if you are using the search engine). Here is a stray Chicago death repeated in an upstate New York newspaper for which the image apparen...

I have found a long-mislaid notebook in which I transcribed newspaper items which are mostly obituaries but with one marriage notice and some other notable events. These were from images not completely legible, so I did my best to be accurate and complete. My typing this time is accurate. All these ...

Although I have nothing definitive to contribute to the effort to track Michael and Mary (Cassidy) Donnellan, I am sending directly to Sean a computer file of Cassidy, Donnellan, and Melvin records gleaned from online indexes. To summarize those, there is a good-looking Terryglass, Tipperary birth i...

Those are very good details, Sean. What springs to mind is that the Michael-Mary wedding took place in Killaloe, being the bride's parish. I wonder if anyone can narrow down the years, but it was likely between 1904 and 1910, so that Michael was at least 25 and Mary, 22. The parish record might have...