TIGS
Monthly Meeting Notes
November,
2003
These
notes were
taken and
transcribed
by TIGS Member
Kristin Ayotte
and originally
distributed
thrrough
the TIGS
mailing
list
Troy
Irish
Genealogy
Society
Meeting
Notes
November
20,
2003
On
Thursday, 11/20/03, members
of the TIGS met at the
Irish Mist in South Troy. Those
attending
were Kris Ayotte, Kaye
Brearton,
Linda Carey-Gryce, Marialice
Mangan, Bill McGrath,
Frank Ryan and Donna
Vaughn. Let me add my
congratulations to Donna.....
Bill
McGrath brought copies
of Irish poems and
stories that he has
printed out
on different
stationary,
all were suitable
for framing. If
we ever need a
fund raiser for the
group for any purpose
I highly recommend
what Bill can produce
on his computer. He
has also enlarged
the post cards of coat
of arms available
in Ireland and some
shops over here (Pat
got these for him
in Ireland) and again
they came
out
marvelous and could be framed.
Tis
herself (me) brought
a recently discovered
1949 will from my Malone
side
that
has given me
a new outlet
of leads directly
to Ireland. BUT
Lynn
produced
an 1875
will of
a Carey
family
member
that she
is investigating.
Both
documents were great and what all of us look for.
We
discussed books and
movies including "Falling
for a Dancer" that
Kaye
highly recommends,available
at overstocks.com,
and The Magdalene
Laundries.
The
latter produced a lively conversation from most of
us who attended
Catholic
grammar or high schools and were taught by Nuns. Judging
from the
conversation
I think the list could add "Nuns" to their
lively topics.
Marialice
lightened the conversation
when she told us she
had recently made
a
phone call with a question about finding a death in a newspaper
and was told
she
should check the day before and the day after the death
for the announcement!!
We
did not know they would announce the death the day before
it occured.
Bill
McGrath suggested "random
acts of kindess" as
a
site
to
get
help
from if
you
hit
a
brick
wall. He
has
had
some
good
luck
in
the
past
and
in
turn helped
out someone else.
Although
not necessarily Irish
related I brought the
site; wwiimemorial.com
This
site is in place to memorialize our family members
who participated in WWII
and is accepting submissions from family members. I
submitted my
Dad
who
was a Marine so I can now go to the site, select the
state, then the city,
enter
his surname "Cooney" and there is a tribute
to him there. There
are
simple
instructions at the site for submission of a name,
you are then given a PW
and
can enter and edit information. Great way to
honor your heros.
Mentioned
also was that the Troy
Libary has available
in the Troy Room the
records of St. Patricks
Church and St. Jean
de Baptiste Church,
these
include
baptismals and marriages. St. Patricks is right up
to 2000. Catholic
High
has
the yearbooks that have been mentioned on the list as well
as some
scrapbooks
that were put together by students over the years. The
NYS archives
also
has
available on index cards WWI and Civil War records. You
cannot touch them
but
they will show them to you, so this entails a visit to the
archives.
Not
quite list material but interesting anyway is that we found
that myself.
Bill
and Frank all lived
in Germany
at one point in our
lives. Too
bad we weren't
looking for German
Roots at that time,
if we had them.
That's
about it, we will meet next month at the Grove up across
from HVCC.
If
anyone present at the meeting has something to add
please feel free.
OH! Marialice did share a site that gives access
to old articles
in the NY Times
in a very roundabout way. I will leave that
one to her as I
did jot
it
down, but my notes are confusing.......
Kristin
Cooney-Ayotte
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