Thanks for your detailed input, Boyd.......... BUT, I should have more pointedly said it's an Ebook on our website - CoTyroneIreland.com Jim
Jim McKane South Bruce Peninsula, Ontario On Tue, Dec 26, 2017 at 7:41 AM, Boyd Gray <[email protected]> wrote: > What's the question, Jim? > > This is probably THE best book written about west Ulster in the 19th > century. Let me explain why. > > 1. It is made up almost entirely of articles from the Strabane Morning > Post so, no interpretation, all primary sources, yours to analyse and > consider just as people at the time had to consider them. > > 2. It covers the early 19th century, that period when we run out of > records and as such is extremely useful. > > 3. It is packed full of names and people of genealogical interest, > including long comprehensive lists of people who registered for the vote > under the new legislation of the late 1820s, with their addresses. Were > your folks there? > > 4. No other book will give you such an informative and fascinating > insight into how people lived in the early 19th century. Read how people > stoned the boat carrying cholera victims down river from Castlefin to the > Lifford infirmary because they were so terrified of catching the disease. > This was the world of your ancestors and you can read about it for yourself > rather than have someone tell you their impressions of it. > > 5. It is edited by Faye Logue, one of west Ulster's foremost local and > family historians who has spent decades researching the area and > contributing data townland maps for the benefit of all of us. > > 6. It is well illustrated, comprehensively indexed and will be a book > that you will read all the way through as soon as you get it and then > return to it over and over again. > > If you can locate a copy, buy it!! Otherwise check out any reference to > it which you can find online at CTI or anywhere else. > > Hope this helps, > > Boyd > > > > https://www.facebook.com/westulstergenealogy/ > > http://familytrees.genopro.com/boydgray26/Boyd/ > > On 26 December 2017 at 12:19, Jim McKane <[email protected]> wrote: > >> It seems there is some question regarding the content of this Ebook. >> Please use *THIS LINK >> <http://www.cotyroneireland.com/StrabaneMorningPostINDEX.pdf>* to view >> the complete 25-page index of the surnames, places, etc. referenced in this >> valuable publication. >> >> Enjoy >> Jim >> >> Jim McKane >> South Bruce Peninsula, Ontario >> >> _______________________________________________ >> CoTyroneList mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://mail.cotyroneireland.com/mailman/listinfo/cotyronelis >> t_cotyroneireland.com >> >> >
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