Thank you for posting this, Bill. I love having new places to search for my elusive Driscoll family! Ginny Humling On Tue, Dec 8, 2015 at 10:25 AM, William Gawne via <beara@rootsweb.com> wrote: > Dear friends of Beara, > > This article just came in from Irish Genealogy News: > > --- Begin Cited Text --- > > Skibbereen Heritage Centre has uploaded some 2,350 burial register > transcriptions for 16 West Cork graveyards (see names, locations and dates > in table below) to its West Cork Graveyards Database. The information > provided includes name, age and address of the deceased, dates of death and > burial and, in some cases, occupation of the deceased. > > The registers were made available by Cork County Council, who are now > responsible for each of the graveyards, and were transcribed by a small > team of Skibbereen Heritage Centre volunteers. > > This upload almost doubles the size of the free-to-access database. It > already held around 2,700 records collected as a result of surveys carried > out in eleven local graveyards. The surveys involved photographing and > transcribing the headstones, mapping the graves, and gathering any local > knowledge of each graveyard and those buried within. The database holds the > transcriptions and links to photos of the memorials. > > A further survey has recently been undertaken at Kilcoe (new) graveyard, > and these records have also been uploaded to the database. > > Transcribed registers in West Cork Graveyard Database > > Abbeymahon Graveyard Skibbereen May 1900-October 1975 > Abbeystrowry Graveyard Skibbereen March 1934-Sept 1943 & > Oct 1963-June 1965 > Allihies Graveyard Castletownbere June 1990-April > 1992 > Ardagh Graveyard Rosscarbery May 1991-December 2009 > Ballymoney Graveyard Ballineen June 1961-June 1998 > Ballynacallagh Graveyard Dursey Island October 1935-May 1988 > Castlehaven Graveyard Castletownshend March > 1934-June 1967 > Drimoleague Graveyard Drimoleague April 1963-April 1969 > Durrus Graveyard Durrus June 1989-June 1995 > Fanlobbus Graveyard Dunmanway March 1960-September 1994 > Kilbarry Graveyard Dunmanway March 1960-May 1993 > Kilcaskan Graveyard Adrigole no dates on entries > Kilmacabea Graveyard Leap March 1934-February 1968 > Milltown Rathbarry Graveyard Ardfield September > 1944-January 1947 > Tullagh Graveyard Baltimore January 1900-December 1973 > Whiddy Island Bantry Bay February 1935-October 1980 > > Posted by Claire Santry, Irish Genealogy News > > --- End Cited Text --- > > I would imagine the Allihies graveyard entries would be of particular > interest to some of us. To look up a particular burial, or to browse the > database, go to http://www.graveyards.skibbheritage.com/Search.aspx > > Bill Gawne > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > BEARA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message >