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From: Lawrence Barrett <>
Subject: Re: [NY-IRISH] car rentals - Bob Ryan
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 23:17:19 -0700 (PDT)
In-Reply-To: <0a3501c6f42d$9c6a5dc0$d6a80144@ibmlhjigdzm4db>


Bob and Jan
I don't know what card you are using but my RBC Visa has served me numerous times for collision coverage in Europe on rentals and I just changed to an RBC Visa Avion for points and was assured that the rental coverage was still there.
Lawrence
bob ryan <> wrote:
Yes Jan, That is what I'm saying. I haven't called my card company yet but I
intend to.

Bob

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jan Fortado"
To:
Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2006 8:57 PM
Subject: [NY-IRISH] car rentals - Bob Ryan


> It seemed as if there was only ONE card left. I was able to rental
> insurance
> this past March in Ireland with a platinum Master Card (only a platinum
> one). Are you saying that even the platinum Master Card can't be used for
> insurance now?
>
> Jan
> ----- Original Message -----
> From:
> To:
> Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2006 1:00 AM
> Subject: NY-IRISH Digest, Vol 1, Issue 27
>
>
>>
>>
>> ====NY-Irish Mailing List====
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>> Today's Topics:
>>
>> 1. Re: cheap Ireland Airfares (bob ryan)
>> 2. GenealogyBank Launched (Jim Garrity)
>> 3. Far-out Family Lore ()
>> 4. Association of the color green with Irish nationalism
>> ()
>> 5. Re: Association of the color green with Irish nationalism
>> ()
>> 6. Re: Association of the color green with Irish nationalism
>> (Gerry Eberwein)
>> 7. Garden City Hotel ()
>> 8. Re: Far-Out Family Lore? (Clare Higgins)
>>
>>
>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> Message: 1
>> Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 21:49:55 -0400
>> From: "bob ryan"
>> Subject: Re: [NY-IRISH] cheap Ireland Airfares
>> To:
>> Message-ID: <05f401c6f320$e0e6e850$>
>> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1";
>> reply-type=original
>>
>> I want to pass this along too.
>>
>> Car rentals
>>
>> No more using a credit card that used to cover insurance on your rental
>> car.
>> A friend just returned and said it figured out to about 21 Euros a day.
>> He
>> hasn't got his bill yet so that price might be off a little.
>>
>> Bob
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "jeanine"
>> To: ;
>> Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2006 8:52 PM
>> Subject: [NY-IRISH] cheap Ireland Airfares
>>
>>
>>> wanted to pass this along in case someone is planning a trip to Ireland.
>>>
>>> Jeanine
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> $169 & up -- Ireland from 4 Cities
>>> http://www.travelzoo.com/Top20.asp?id=101263007
>>>
>>>
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>>
>>
>>
>> ------------------------------
>>
>> Message: 2
>> Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 21:54:18 -0400
>> From: Jim Garrity
>> Subject: [NY-IRISH] GenealogyBank Launched
>> Cc: , ,
>> , ,
>> , ,
>> , ,
>>
>> Message-ID: <>
>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
>>
>> Hello, Folks....
>>
>> GenealogyBank was launched this morning. The website is at:
>>
>> http://www.GenealogyBank.com
>>
>> You can search it for free and get a brief record. To get full records,
>> you need
>> to sign up. The site is heavy on content: newspapers; American State
>> Papers; US
>> Serial Set; enhanced SSDI; digital books, and more.
>>
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>>
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>>
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>>
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>>
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>>
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>> starting in
>> 1937.
>>
>> There is a writeup of GenealogyBank at http://genealogyblog.com/ and
>> http://dearmyrtle.blogspot.com/
>>
>> I am in no way connected with GenealogyBank, by the way.
>>
>> --
>> James Garrity
>>
>> Vice-President for Family History and Webmaster, New York Irish History
>> Roundtable, http://www.irishnyhistory.org
>> Member, Association of Professional Genealogists
>> Member, Godfrey Memorial Library, http://www.godfrey.org
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> ------------------------------
>>
>> Message: 3
>> Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 22:36:24 EDT
>> From:
>> Subject: [NY-IRISH] Far-out Family Lore
>> To:
>> Message-ID:
>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII"
>>
>>
>> Hi Clare,
>>
>> Go for it! I for one would love to hear some of your stories.
>>
>> Pat
>>
>> From: "Clare Higgins"
>> Subject: [NY-IRISH] Far-Out Family Lore?
>>
>> Hi, folks. As long as the subject of religion has come up, does anyone
>> want
>> to swap stories about the role of religion in their family history? I
>> have a
>> story about my GGF almost becoming a priest. It's a pretty good one, but
>> I
>> don't want to go off topic, since this is list about genealogical
>> research.
>> Still, stories like these are part of family history. I have other
>> stories
>> on other topics, and some of them are real doozies. Can/should we do
>> this?
>>
>> Please advise. Thanks.
>>
>> Clare Higgins
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> ------------------------------
>>
>> Message: 4
>> Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 22:47:10 EDT
>> From:
>> Subject: [NY-IRISH] Association of the color green with Irish
>> nationalism
>> To:
>> Message-ID: <>
>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII"
>>
>> Hi Jerry,
>>
>> Could it possibly have anything to do with the fact that Ireland has ten
>> thousand shades of green in the landscape? Just a thought.
>>
>> Pat
>>
>>
>> From:
>> Subject: Re: [NY-IRISH] The Color Orange
>> To: (mailto:)
>>
>> Now can anybody tell me where the association of the color green with
>> Irish
>> nationalism comes from? Why not blue, the ancient royal color of
>> Ireland?
>> Or any other color?
>>
>> Le gach dea-ghu? / Best, - Jerry
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> ------------------------------
>>
>> Message: 5
>> Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 22:51:16 -0400
>> From:
>> Subject: Re: [NY-IRISH] Association of the color green with Irish
>> nationalism
>> To:
>> Message-ID: <00a801c6f329$72722610$>
>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
>>
>> Hi Pat,
>>
>> Sure could. Sounds good to me. Best, - Jerry
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From:
>> [mailto:]
>> On Behalf Of
>> Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2006 10:47 PM
>> To:
>> Subject: [NY-IRISH] Association of the color green with Irish nationalism
>>
>> Hi Jerry,
>>
>> Could it possibly have anything to do with the fact that Ireland has ten
>> thousand shades of green in the landscape? Just a thought.
>>
>> Pat
>>
>>
>> From:
>> Subject: Re: [NY-IRISH] The Color Orange
>> To: (mailto:)
>>
>> Now can anybody tell me where the association of the color green with
>> Irish
>> nationalism comes from? Why not blue, the ancient royal color of
>> Ireland?
>> Or any other color?
>>
>> Le gach dea-ghu? / Best, - Jerry
>>
>>
>>
>>
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>> ------------------------------
>>
>> Message: 6
>> Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 20:03:40 -0700
>> From: "Gerry Eberwein"
>> Subject: Re: [NY-IRISH] Association of the color green with Irish
>> nationalism
>> To: ,
>> Message-ID: <000501c6f32b$35b58670$>
>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
>>
>> It sure wasn't because of the color of money. Most didn't have any.
>>
>>
>> Gerry
>>
>> Tracing the lineage and posterity of Orson Burgess and Elizabeth O'Bolger
>> from the Finger Lakes of New York.
>>
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>> O'BOLGER, SLAYTON, TENNEY, TORREY, WATKINS & WHITNEY; and a few more.
>>
>> Gerald Eberwein
>> PO Box 605
>> Naco AZ 85620-0605
>> (520) 432-1231
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From:
>> [mailto:]
>> On Behalf Of
>> Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2006 7:51 PM
>> To:
>> Subject: Re: [NY-IRISH] Association of the color green with Irish
>> nationalism
>>
>> Hi Pat,
>>
>> Sure could. Sounds good to me. Best, - Jerry
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From:
>> [mailto:]
>> On Behalf Of
>> Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2006 10:47 PM
>> To:
>> Subject: [NY-IRISH] Association of the color green with Irish nationalism
>>
>> Hi Jerry,
>>
>> Could it possibly have anything to do with the fact that Ireland has ten
>> thousand shades of green in the landscape? Just a thought.
>>
>> Pat
>>
>>
>> From:
>> Subject: Re: [NY-IRISH] The Color Orange
>> To: (mailto:)
>>
>> Now can anybody tell me where the association of the color green with
>> Irish
>> nationalism comes from? Why not blue, the ancient royal color of
>> Ireland?
>> Or any other color?
>>
>> Le gach dea-ghu? / Best, - Jerry
>>
>>
>>
>>
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>> ------------------------------
>>
>> Message: 7
>> Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 23:06:57 EDT
>> From:
>> Subject: [NY-IRISH] Garden City Hotel
>> To:
>> Message-ID:
>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII"
>>
>>
>> Margaret.
>>
>> Great story! I loved the fact that your grandfather, Leslie, was a
>> bellhop
>> at the Garden City Hotel. It's still a great hotel and I've stayed
>> there
>> several times over the years. They even welcome our dog, a Welsh
>> Springer
>> Spaniel named Riley (as in 'The Life of Riley"). My husband is a member
>> of the
>> Garden City Golf Club which is right across the street from the hotel so
>> we
>> stay there every year when he goes up (from Florida) to play golf for a
>> few
>> days. We always have a great time.
>>
>> Pat
>>
>> From: Margaret Malloy
>> Subject: [NY-IRISH] Effects of Religion on Family History
>>
>>
>> ............6 year old Protestant Leslie E. Ryan gets a job as a bellhop
>> at
>> the
>> Garden City Hotel in Garden City, Long Island, NY.
>> He meets 21 year old off the boat, very Catholic head housekeeper
>> Agnes GANNON (GUINANE) (b. 1891 Liverpool, Eng)
>> After going together for 5 years because Olive won't give her consent
>> for her son to marry a Catholic, Leslie turns 21, becomes a Catholic
>> and marries Agnes.
>> They have a daughter Peggy who is my mother.
>> Leslie is gone but became a Catholic's Catholic. He could argue
>> either the Augustinian or Aquinine side of any theological issue and
>> often engaged priests in such debates just for fun.
>>
>> I recently had a conversation with a first cousin from Huntington
>> Long Island who thought that the Ryan side of the family were all mid-
>> westerners!
>>
>> Margaret
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> ------------------------------
>>
>> Message: 8
>> Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 23:13:13 -0400
>> From: "Clare Higgins"
>> Subject: Re: [NY-IRISH] Far-Out Family Lore?
>> To:
>> Message-ID: <000501c6f32c$83b6be60$>
>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
>>
>> Well, we can try my story on for size. I sent it before but I don't think
>> it
>> got through. It's about the social pride of having a priest in the
>> family,
>> so in a way it combines religion with culture.
>>
>> My great-great-grandmother, Ellen Palmer Lynch, had eight children, one
>> of
>> them named John. The family lived in Reen, Kenmare. When John grew up,
>> Ellen
>> began pressuring him to become a priest. He never wanted to, but
>> dutifully
>> began his studies. At the very last moment, when he was due to take Holy
>> Orders, he could not go through with it, and told his mother so. She
>> kicked
>> him out of the house. He was sixteen. The entire family ostracized him,
>> and
>> he had nowhere to go, so he immigrated to America, taking his 14-year-old
>> brother James with him. They stayed in New York City with their sister
>> Margaret, who had come to the U.S. earlier and was a successful saloon
>> keeper. Eventually all John's siblings came over and did quite well.
>>
>> At one point John's brothers decided to invite their mom to the U.S. for
>> a
>> visit, and sent John over to Ireland to fetch her. I don't know whose
>> brilliant idea that was, but when John got to the house, his mother
>> refused
>> to let him in. So he had to spend the night at a neighbor's house and
>> then
>> went back to the U.S. without her. They never saw one another again.
>>
>> John married in 1893 and his first child was my grandmother Nellie. So if
>> it
>> weren't for a never-frocked almost-priest, I wouldn't be here!
>>
>> My cousin got this story from her mother (who was one of John's other
>> daughters), and she said Ellen wanted John to be a priest just so she
>> could
>> lord it over her neighbors. She said a lot of people in the neighborhood
>> felt that way, that a priest in the family was a "status symbol." John's
>> wishes didn't seem to count.
>>
>> Clare
>>
>>
>>
>>
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