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Irish Family History 184 Shownotes
Among Todays Topics at the Irish Roots Cafe:

1)   Family of the Day: Rodgers
2)   Irish County of the Month:  Limerick
3)   Searching For: O’Hara, Sheerin, Tarrant
4)   Curious News:  Oklahoma and Ireland
5)   Web Page of the Month: Irish Archives go online
6)   Curious Note: St. Pats Day in Boston & surrounds
7)   One minute podcast: Gelshinan, Gunshinan roots

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This Weeks Audio Timeline

Todays Topics:                    1:00
Interview with Bethany:      2:00
Interview continues:            4:00
Books of the Month:            6:30
The Magnificent Seven:        9:30
Irish Name of the Day:       11:30
Sources:                            15:30
Websites of the Week:        16:30
Curious News and Notes:   18:30

Total Time: 25:50
Our Enhanced Irish Family History podcast with photos and
links can be found at:

http://www.irishroots.com/content/view/103/156/

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Notes This Week:
What’s happening today at the Irish Roots Cafe

1)  This week we move right into our interview !
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One Minute Podcast
Let’s listen to one of our 7 podcast series’ on Song; Recitation;
Travel; History; Irish-America; or Irish language.

Todays Podcast extract is from
Interview with Bethany Frank, with a few notes on her
family history and Gunshinan or Gelshinan of Longford, Ireland,
and how her Aunt played a crucial role in finding a start to her
family history.
Bethany first interviewed me for ‘Voices of the Past’ in a podcast
with written shownotes that can be found here:
http://www.voicesofthepast.org/2011/01/13/mike-olaughlin-of-the-irish-roots-cafe-talks-about-discovering-shared-family-history-through-new-media/

For more podcasts like todays sample extract, go to:

Irish Family History: http://www.irishroots.com/content/view/97/152/
Photo Enhanced version:  http://www.irishroots.com/content/view/103/156/
Irish in America:  http://www.irishroots.com/content/view/98/154/
Irish Song /recitation:  http://www.irishroots.com/content/view/99/153/
Irish Video Shorts:  http://www.irishroots.com/content/view/104/157/
Irish Hedge Row History: http://www.irishroots.com/content/view/105/158/
Hello Fada, Irish language: http://www.irishroots.com/content/view/106/159/
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We publish more Irish genealogy books than anyone in the world !

Books of the Month:

1)  Families of County Limerick, Ireland. hardbound, 184 pages.
Indexed, maps, illus.
sample excerpt:
Modern Day Families
‘The foregoing families may be found in Limerick and surrounding
areas today, and are given among the old Irish families of the
kingdom of Thomand.’……. In more modern times the following
families are given as being the most numerous in the area:
Ryan (91) O’Brien (78) Fitzgerald (58) Sullivan (50) Hayes (45)
(likely from O’Hea) Walsh (45) Collins (40) O’Connell (39)
Murphy (38) Moloney (38) O’Connor(37) Lynch(31)
McNamara (31) O’Donnell (28) Ahern (25)  Many more families
are given with their historical notes, but the list is too long to
give here. Find more at the address below:
http://www.irishroots.com/id4314.htm

2) Co. Limerick Genealogy & Family History Notes. Spiral bound
sample excerpt:
Part Three
Coats of Arms and Genealogical Notes.
Arms connected in some way to the county, as taken from the
Irish Book of Arms. The original listings provide specific
locations for families, and clues for future research. Old
illustrations of arms are included for the families of : Atkinson;
Barry of Sandville; Bernard; O’Brien of Cahirmoyle; Bury;
Cooper; Coote; Croker; Delmege; Dickson; Evans; Fane;
Fitzgerald; Goold-Verschoyle; O’Grady of Kilballyowen; Greene;
Guillamore; Holmes; Jocelyn; Kelly; Lloyd; Low; Lyons;
Lysaght; Massey; Maunsell; Morony; Pery; Pomeroy; Quin;
Rose; Ross-Lewin; Seymour; Southwell; Tracy; Tuthill; Waller;
and Westropp; all with County Limerick connections.
Find more from this work at the address below.
http://www.irishroots.com/id4836.htm

Both books published by IGF and the Irish Roots Cafe.
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Coming Up:
Irish Archives go online, with much more to come.
Flax Growers list link for 1796.
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Time to raise our eyes skywards, give thanks, and  ask for help !
Here are todays “Magnificent Seven” :

1)  Judy Bramhall of Windsor Heights, IA, your Families
of County Cork, has shipped !

2) Welcome new member Dennis Tarrant of Aurora, CO,
searching for birth records for grparents: Dennis Tarrant
b 09/1864, prob. Enniskeane, Cty. Cork; Father, John
Tarrant, Mother Johanna Tarrant and Mary Fitzgerald
b. 1866. Father Richard Fitzgerald, Mother Nora. (12)

3) JoAnn Sheeran of Wilmington, DE your Families of Donegal
and beginners Irish genealogy guide has shipped !

4) Welcome new member Barbara Widmer of Loveland, OH
Family arrived 1830 in U.S., Joseph and Andrew Rodgers.(12)

5) Dana Murphy of Roseville, CA, your Counties Kings and
Queens, Ireland genealogy book has shipped !

6) Welcome new member JoAnn Sheeran of Wilmington, DE.
Sheeran and Maltman Families. I promised my children and
grandchildren I would find all info on both families !

7) Welcome renewing member William O’Hara of East Rockaway,
NY. Your County Clare and Limerick genealogy books shipped !
Searching: 1860 to present -brooklyn,NY, Michael J. b. 1858
m. Hanna Doran Aug.1858.

Check out our online search list at:
http://www.irishroots.com/content/view/21/45/
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Irish Family Name of the Day:
Rodgers

Todays family history in honor of member:
Barbara Widmer

Related Spellings of the Name
Rogers, MacRogers, Rogerson

Varient Spelling Groups:   #1286; 1366; 1806
From The Guide to the Various Spellings of Irish Family Names
http://www.irishroots.com/id4918.htm

History of the Name
The 1890 birth index finds the family numerous in Antrim,
Down, Dublin and Roscommon. Rogers is also a fairly
numerous English name, which will account for some in
Ireland.  McRory  is an Irish name which has been changed to
Rogers or Rodgers.
In our Families of the Clanna Rory in Ireland, we find MacRory
and/or Rodgers given as chiefs of Dal-Buine, centered in Upper
Massarene and specific adjoining parishes.
The book ‘Irish Families on the California Trail’ also gives
Rogers and McGinnis among those early settlers in Bakerville
in the American west. Rogerstown, County Dublin, is also given
in the Irish Book of Arms.

copyright 2010, IGF, based in part upon
The Book of Irish Families, great and small
http://www.irishroots.com/id4098.htm

Irish Family Coats of Arms From the Irish Book of Arms
A Brief search in that work shows:
http://www.irishroots.com/id4861.htm

1)  MacRoury is listed among the Irish Septs in the Irish
Book of Arms.
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Coming Up Later in this episode:
Cobh Heritage Center, County Cork.
Family Tree Maker for Mac OSX.
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The Free Master online index at www.Irishroots.com shows:
Listings for the name 24 times, here are a few examples:

1)   W. Rodgers in Co. Derry (Londonderry) genealogy & family…
2)   Rogers and Rodgers in ‘The History of the Clanna Rory’ families
3)   Rogers and Rodgers in ‘Names of Irish Passengers to America’.
4)   Rodgers in ‘1659 Irish census’; ‘Milesian Families of Ireland’;
5)   Mac Rogers in ‘Co. Tyrone, Ireland, genealogy & family history
6)   Rogers of Meath, in the Annals of Ireland by the 4 Masters
7)   J. Rogers in Co. Limerick Ireland, genealogy & family history

You can use this free index to search for your family name:
http://www.irishroots.com/content/view/21/45/
Remember to leave off the Mac or O when typing your name.
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Around the World, in Irish Ways.
The Web Page and Video of the Month.

1)  Limerick, Anhid Graveyard, just outside the town of Croom.
Oldest headstone from 1723 for Fr. John Cantillon
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyP1Mr7vaPM

2)   Rogers Family Singing a Gospel Concert in Newfoundland.
Anyone look familiar ?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FWp6OpT8dE&feature=related

3)   Rodgers Genealogy Queries
http://www.cousinconnect.com/p/a/0/s/RODGERS

4) Ireland’s archive collections go online, including workhouses…
Starting as a descriptive site, but gauged to digitising entire collections.
at: www.iar.ie
http://www.thejournal.ie/irelands-archive-collections-go-online-2011-3/

see also our Irish Video Shorts at:
http://www.irishroots.com/irishvideo/rss.xml
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Curious News and Notes, From Ireland today

1)  Family Tree Maker for Mac OSX released in UK:
Includes 6 month subscription to Ancestry
http://www.techradar.com/reviews/pc-mac/software/home-and-reference-software/avanquest-family-tree-maker-for-mac-933415/review

2)  Cobh Heritage Center, Co. Cork: Cobh, the Queenstown Story.
Of course this is where the famous Annie Moore statue is found.
http://www.cobhheritage.com/

3)  Maughan steals violin while owner talks on cell phone.
London court hears the tale.
He tried to sell it for $162.  It was worth $2 million !

4)  Comparing Oklahoma and Ireland
http://newsok.com/ireland-feeling-the-effects-of-economic-downturn/article/3545071
Hat twip to:  NoreenBowden

5)   St. Patricks Day 2011 in New England.
Rock Shows; Traditional Shows; The Local Scene
http://www.bostonmusicspotlight.com/features-bms-guide-to-st-patricks-day-2011-in-new-england/

6)   Irish Flax Growers List for 1796.
http://www.lineages.co.uk/2011/01/12/irish-flax-growers-list-1796-2/

…….So end the notes from the Irish Hedge Row today.
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#21 – Irish Song and Recitation Festival at the Irish Roots Cafe

The Irish Pub, Uilleann pipes, Study of Music in Ireland,
and our song today ‘By the Banks of the Roses’
Advance Shownotes

Playing Time: 23:50
Song Starts at 16:45
Crying baby starts at 3:10

This weeks Chat and Sing is with Adam Braunschweig.

Adams Background
Adam grew up in Holyoke MA., outside of Boston and
Springfield.  His father was born in Germany and came to
the U.S. in 1954. Adam started off playing Irish music
around 1999, playing guitar, moving to mandolin and tenor
banjo.  From there he went to Ireland and earned a degree in
in ethnomusicology, (now there is a big word for you!), at the
University of Limerick. Then he began to study the Irish pipes
with Mikey Smith, a young uilleann piper from Dublin.

Ethnic Backgrounds
Just how did Adam come to be so involved in Irish music with
a largely German background ?  He figures it had something
to do with all the Irish theme pubs he has been in.  Adam
also notes that pubs offer an escape to folks coming in off
the streets from everyday life.

The Irish Pub sessions worldwide
We also talk about the development of the pub.  Adam
says the Irish ‘session’ started with musicians in England, who
could not put such a thing together in local tenements, etc.. so
they migrated to the pub.  We are talking about the Irish in
England, perhaps in the late 1940’s. They then went home
to Ireland and continued the practice, bringing the sessions
with them.  The same thing happened when they came the states.
Neither music nor women were allowed in the pubs earlier
as a rule.

The pub in the U.S. is also noted as being very accessible, and
does not discriminate against other groups.  Adam notes that
most of his pubs have a session every week or so, with fiddles
and instrumental tunes, and sometimes with a solo song being
sung.  There seems to be more accordion music in Ireland,
along with female banjo players today !

Irish American Music
Mick Moloney, a great banjo player, has done some
great work researching the early Irish American songs from the
1920’s and earlier. (Far From the Shamrock Shore, is a great work.) It is found that an American song in an Irish session takes its own special form.

The guitar has not been in Irish music for very long, but lately
it has been with an open drone sound, sort of like an open
tuned bouzouki.  It has nothing to do with the speed, it is
about timing.

Pubs in Ireland vs Pubs in Boston
In the countryside in Ireland Adam found the family pub much
more old style than the pubs in the city.  The city pub in Ireland
now resembles the Irish pub in America.
Adam also tells us that in Ireland, you can drop into a pub and play music anytime of the day. In America the available hours for singing might be limited. In Ireland he also found that some
singing clubs still exist.

Kansas City
Adam has been playing locally with his own group in K.C.,
and has a good mix of music. You might find him at Mike
Kellys Westsider.  Some of his songs are from the anthology
of folk music.  One of his current favorites is ‘The Banks of
the Roses’.  His song for us today is that very one:

By the Banks of the Roses
By the Banks of the Roses my Love and I sat down.
And I took out my violin to play my love a tune
In the middle of the tune, O she sighed and she said
O Johnny, lovely Johnny, Would you leave me

O when I was a young man, I heard my father say
That he’d rather see me dead and buried in the clay
Sooner than be married to any runaway
By the lovely sweet banks of the roses

O then I am no runaway and soon I’ll let them know
I can take a good glass or leave it alone
And the man that doesn’t like me, he can keep
his daughter home
And young Johnny will go roving with another

And if ever I get married, twill be in the month of May
When the leaves they are green and the meadows
they are gay
And I and my true love can sit and sport and play
On the lovely sweet banks of the roses.   (end)

Listen to the whole interview
To listen in to the whole chat and sing episode
go to our web page at www.Irishroots.com
and click on Irish Song and Recitation Broadcast
on the left hand side of the page…. thanks….

Irish Sing-a-long
Coming up last Saturday of this month,
Be sure to contact me for details

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Emily with Harp, in Song !
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The worlds most published author his field,  Mike
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written over 700 articles. He also hosts three broadcast
series, including the first weekly podcast on Irish
Family History ever produced.

His works include a 34 book set on Irish Family
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