Re: Ahern website updates
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In reply to:
Ahern website updates
Dennis Ahern 12/18/06
[sent June 27th]
Today is June 27th. On this date in 1919, 48-year old Mary Lavinia (Kelly)
Ahern of Philadelphia died and was buried in St. Denis' cemetery.
See Records of St. Agatha's Catholic Church, Philadelphia, PA at
http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~aherns/ahmisrec.htm#agathahttp://homepages.rootsweb.com/~aherns/ahmisrec.htm#agatha
The Ahern obituaries page has now passed the 3,375 mark. The earliest
new obituary is for one-year-old Joseph O'Hearn, jr., of Bridgeport,
Connecticut, 25 August 1920. The most recent new obituary is for Zita
Madeline (Cox) Ahern of West Yarmouth, Massachusetts, 19 June 2007.
The Ahern researchers page has been updated, but many email addresses no
longer work. Please check http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~aherns/ahsurn.htmhttp://homepages.rootsweb.com/~aherns/ahsurn.htm
and see if you have an old posting there that needs to be updated.
You may or may not be aware that I do a certain amount of public speaking
on topics of history and genealogy. It occurs to me that some of you may
benefit from two of my lectures that are available for download at a
nominal fee (US$1.99). The following are from the Federated Genealogical
Societies conference in Boston last year.
S-367 Genealogical Sources: County Cork
at http://www.lulu.com/content/407710http://www.lulu.com/content/407710
F-269 Tracing the Irish in the American Civil War
at http://www.lulu.com/content/407602http://www.lulu.com/content/407602
See http://stores.lulu.com/fgs2006http://stores.lulu.com/fgs2006 for a full listing of topics available
as individual downloads or as packages of subjects. See
http://world.std.com/~ahern/cv.htmhttp://world.std.com/~ahern/cv.htm for a complete list of my lectures.
The following news stories have been added to the Ahern website.
- Brian Ahern of Placerville, Colorado filed a grievance against
prosecuting attorneys for having politicized a domestic violence charge
against him when he was running for state rep., 7 June 2007
- Irish Farmers' Union expressed their condolences to the family of
Maurice Christopher Ahern, of Monard, Co. Cork, who was shot and killed
in a hold-up, 7 October 1921
- Massachusetts state trooper Jeffrey T. Ahern injured in accident on
Mass. Pike, 8 June 2007
- Daniel Ahearn among guests at birthday party in Bridgeport, Connecticut,
22 February 1923
- Mrs. Wilma Ahearn of Pueblo County, Colorado welfare department addesses
meeting on the problem of inducing aliens from Mexico to return home, 16
April 1938; retires as director of department, 8 November 1940
- Richard Ahern of Denver, Colorado was engineer on train that struck car
crossing the tracks in Denver, 3 March 1937; engineer on train that
struck and killed driver of truck crossing the tracks near Platteville,
Colorado, 16 October 1942
- vaudevillians Will and Gladys Ahern appearing in Bridgeport,
Connecticut, 28 June 1923
- Margaret Ellen Ahern of Stratford, Connecticut graduates from high
school, 21 June 1923
- Chief John W. O'Hearn of Watertown, Massachusetts elected treasurer of
New England Fire Chiefs Association at convention in Boston, 13 July 1922
- Mrs. E. Ahearn of Winsted, Connecticut on State Council Friends of Irish
Freedom convened in New Haven to denounce actions of followers of Eamon
De Valera as murder, 1 January 1923
- Patrick William Ahern of Tipperary, Ireland, was ordained a priest in
1881 and sent to Australia where he met a nun in Sydney with whom he
eloped to America where she took all his money and ran off on him in
Los Angeles, California, 26 April 1901
- Chicago police raid gambling den in rear of Daniel O'Hearn's saloon,
11 September 1899
- David Ahearn of Stratford, Connecticut arrested after running over a
little boy crossing the street, 26 July 1922; to appear as witness at
coroner's hearing on imminent death of victim, 27 July 1922
- Kevin Ahern of Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania works with special education
students, 10 June 2007
- Thomas Ahern of El Toro, California to wed Edith Forsythe of Los
Angeles, 16 December 1903
- Democrat David Ahearn nominated for Supervisor in Sacramento,
California, 26 September 1900
- Private James O'Hearn of Fall River, Massachusetts tortured and burned
at the stake in the Philippines, 16 October 1900
- Mr. and Mrs. John Ahern and their daughter, Sheila, had dinner with the
Robert Loftus family at Uncle Andy's Cow Palace in Palatine, Illinois,
31 March 1967; Erin Loftus spent the weekend with her grandparents, Mr.
and Mrs. John Ahern, in Palatine, Illinois, 15 December 1967
- Albion, New York police officer Thomas O'Hearn may be under
investigation for allegedly leaving the scene of an accident in
February, 7 June 2007
- Adam Ahern from Batesville, Indiana works in the situation room at the
White House, 12 June 2007
- Dennis Ahern of Acton, Mass. has letter to the editor on subject of
religious freedom, 21 June 2007
- Irish boxer Conor Ahern to fight Bulgaria's Salim Salimov, 18 June 2007
- Connecticut boxer Frankie Ahearn in training at the Acorn gym in
Bridgeport, 21 January 1920; arrested for a breach of the peace, 29
March 1922; fined $5 for participating in a disturbance, 30 March 1922
See http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~aherns/ahnews.htmhttp://homepages.rootsweb.com/~aherns/ahnews.htm for these and more.
The Ahern Family Genealogy Website
http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~aherns/http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~aherns/