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[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#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.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/407710 F-269 Tracing the Irish in the American Civil War at http://www.lulu.com/content/407602 See http://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.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.htm for these and more. 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