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From: "Patrick Casey" <>
Subject: RE: [GALWAY] Question about site with memorial cards???
Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2003 14:59:14 +0100
In-Reply-To: <00b501c3a71d$a118e7c0$0400a8c0@how>


The Irish BM&D database to which data from these cards can be added is
the CMC Record Project at http://www.cmcrp.net . This database is not
specifically a memorial card / mortuary card database. It's for BM&D
data in general but the card data is just another form of Death data
which can be added to it.

By the way, there seem to be many synonyms for these cards (memorial
cards, in memoriam cards, funeral cards, mortuary cards, prayer cards,
etc. etc). The list is so long that I'm thinking of starting a website
and database for mortuary card synonyms, ha ha.

If any of you listers are out there visiting in the West of Ireland
please keep your eyes open for these cards and capture the data to the
CMC database. Lurk outside churches on Sunday morning, snatch those
missals away, and empty the mortuary cards into your portable scanners,
Scan parlour mantlepieces with your beady eyes. Go through the trash
skips outside those old houses. Waylay elderly people on the street and
go through their handbags. Leave no stone unturned nor kitchen drawer
unopened. You may be arrested, of course, so have your lawyer's phone
number ready when the Garda appear (but don't mention my name). You may
also be briefly committed to a mental institution but it will be in a
good cause (and we can all do with a little R&R once in a while).

Oh, and by the way, while incarcerated check your surroundings for
discarded mortuary cards.

Seriously, capture that data please. One 20th century mortuary card,
found by chance and recorded by you on the Web, may take a researcher
back into the 19th century and provide an important piece to a puzzle.

End of harangue.

Paddy

Dr Patrick A Casey
Oberwohlenstrasse 45
CH-3033 Wohlen/BE
Switzerland
Tel. (home) +41 31 829 2000
Tel. (mobile) +41 79 300 8911
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-----Original Message-----
From:
[mailto:] On Behalf Of Kathleen
Donnelly
Sent: 10 November 2003 01:00
To:
Subject: [GALWAY] Question about site with memorial cards???



Hello, would you happen to know the email addy of the site which has the
Memorial cards on it. Thanks Kathleen
----- Original Message -----
From: "mbt.robinson" <>
To: <>
Sent: Friday, November 07, 2003 11:11 PM
Subject: Re: [GALWAY] Mortuary cards versus In Memorium cards


> Many people may be familiar with "in memorium cards"
> In Ireland after a death notice is published the family is unundated
> with samples of memorium cards These aredistributed to the family and
> to
friends
> afterwards. I have received them from the U.S so the custom must be
> widespread. In Ireland they usually contain a photograph. Paddy has
> agreed that the same information appears on these as on mortuary
> cards.I was facinated to learn from Paddy that there is a site one can

> upload these
to.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Patrick Casey" <>
> To: <>
>
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