Over the last while I've been having major computer problems with the result that I haven't been adding photos or much to this site or my From Ireland web site.  Outside of not adding new stuff though, I have been busy working on a new web site for County Laois or Queen's Co., which is my main county of interest cos I grew up there. 

 

The thing is, there are so many ways that the counties around any one county connect, you have Dioceses taking in more than one county, you can have one parish spread though two or more counties, you can have a civil parish of one name in one county but the Roman Catholic parish of the same name taking in townlands in two counties.  Galmoy in Kilkenny and Portarlington in Laois are prime examples of this.  Galmoy covers Laois & Kilkenny and Portarlington covers Offaly & Laois.

 

Anyway, I decided that I've seen too many people asking questions on the various county rootsweb mail lists which never get answered cos people tend to think of counties as being fixed individual entities.   I've created a new mail list or group on Google Groups for Laois and the counties which surround it.  I meant to include Tipperary in the name, but I forgot!! and I ended up with a group called : Carlow-Kildare-Kilkenny-Laois-Offaly-Ireland-genealogy

* Group home page: http://groups.google.com/group/carlow-kildare-kilkenny-laois-offaly-ireland-genealogy

 

So, even though it looks like I've not been too busy, I have, between setting up the Laois or Queen's County Genealogy web site at http://www.laoisgenealogy.com (to which I am busy moving information from the Laois section of my From Ireland web site, and then the new Google Group for the above counties.  Then, I have to go back to anywhere that I have the old URL's at and change them, just like with this site.  in the meantime, I have lots more new gravestone photographs to go on this site or From Ireland when I get round to it.

 

Jane