Just tried looking at records and am not finding the toolbar that they say should allow magnification. Help!? Theresa > Dear friends of Beara, > > Below, I quote from an article in today's Irish Times. I've tried to look > at the site myself, and right now it's unreachable. No doubt it's being > overwhelmed by all the people trying to look at it. > > I'm not sure there will be anything more in this than we've already had > access to via the online records of the Diocese of Kerry, but we can > always hope. > > Bill Gawne > > --- Begin quoted text --- > > Irish Times ~Irish Catholics can now trace ancestry online back to 1740s > Almost > 300 years of parish registers to be made available by National Library of > IrelandThose of Irish Catholic ancestry, wherever they are, will be able > to trace their origins back almost 300 years online from today > (Wednesday). > > Taoiseach Enda Kenny and Minister for Arts, Herigage > <http://www.irishtimes.com/search/search-7.1213540?tag_person=Herigage&article=true> > and the Gaeltacht Heather Humphries > <http://www.irishtimes.com/search/search-7.1213540?tag_person=Heather > Humphries&article=true> will officially launch the entire collection of > Catholic parish register microfilms held by the National Library of > Ireland > <http://www.irishtimes.com/search/search-7.1213540?tag_organisation=National > Library of Ireland&article=true> (NLI) online. > > Involved are over 370,000 digital images of the microfilm reels on which > the parish registers are recorded and which will be accessible free of > charge. > > These parish register records are considered the single most important > source of information on Irish family history prior to the 1901 Census. > Dating from the 1740s to the 1880s, they cover 1,086 parishes throughout > the island of Ireland > <http://www.irishtimes.com/search/search-7.1213540?tag_location=Ireland&article=true>, > and consist primarily of baptismal and marriage records. > > The NLI has been working to digitise the microfilms for over three years > under what is had described as its most ambitious digitisation programme > to date. > > Ciara Kerrigan > <http://www.irishtimes.com/search/search-7.1213540?tag_person=Ciara > Kerrigan&article=true> of the NLI, who has been managing the digitisation > of the parish registers, said: “We announced initial details of this > project last December, and received a hugely enthusiastic response from > people worldwide with an interest in Irish family history. We are > delighted that the week when we can publish all the digitised records > online has now arrived.” > > It was, she said, “the most significant ever genealogy project in the > history of the NLI.” > > The microfilms have been available to NLI visitors since the 1970s but > digitisation means that for the first time anyone, anywhere will be able > to access them. A dedicated hashtag for the new service is > #ancestorsonline > > Further information at www.nli.ie, or @NLIreland > > > > > ------------------------------- > 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 --------------------------------------------- This message was sent using SnowCrest WebMail. http://www.snowcrest.net

There should be a toolbar on the top right with a + and - along with the print, download etc.. icons From: kerstentm via <beara@rootsweb.com> To: beara@rootsweb.com Sent: Wednesday, July 8, 2015 8:36 PM Subject: Re: [BEARA] Irish Catholics can now trace ancestry online back to 1740s   Just tried looking at records and am not finding the toolbar that they   say should allow magnification.  Help!?  Theresa > Dear friends of Beara, > > Below, I quote from an article in today's Irish Times.  I've tried to look > at the site myself, and right now it's unreachable.  No doubt it's being > overwhelmed by all the people trying to look at it. > > I'm not sure there will be anything more in this than we've already had > access to via the online records of the Diocese of Kerry, but we can > always hope. > > Bill Gawne > > --- Begin quoted text --- > > Irish Times ~Irish Catholics can now trace ancestry online back to 1740s > Almost > 300 years of parish registers to be made available by National Library of > IrelandThose of Irish Catholic ancestry, wherever they are, will be able > to trace their origins back almost 300 years online from today > (Wednesday). > > Taoiseach Enda Kenny and Minister for Arts, Herigage > <http://www.irishtimes.com/search/search-7.1213540?tag_person=Herigage&article=true> > and the Gaeltacht Heather Humphries > <http://www.irishtimes.com/search/search-7.1213540?tag_person=Heather > Humphries&article=true> will officially launch the entire collection of > Catholic parish register microfilms held by the National Library of > Ireland > <http://www.irishtimes.com/search/search-7.1213540?tag_organisation=National > Library of Ireland&article=true> (NLI) online. > > Involved are over 370,000 digital images of the microfilm reels on which > the parish registers are recorded and which will be accessible free of > charge. > > These parish register records are considered the single most important > source of information on Irish family history prior to the 1901 Census. > Dating from the 1740s to the 1880s, they cover 1,086 parishes throughout > the island of Ireland > <http://www.irishtimes.com/search/search-7.1213540?tag_location=Ireland&article=true>, > and consist primarily of baptismal and marriage records. > > The NLI has been working to digitise the microfilms for over three years > under what is had described as its most ambitious digitisation programme > to date. > > Ciara Kerrigan > <http://www.irishtimes.com/search/search-7.1213540?tag_person=Ciara > Kerrigan&article=true> of the NLI, who has been managing the digitisation > of the parish registers, said: “We announced initial details of this > project last December, and received a hugely enthusiastic response from > people worldwide with an interest in Irish family history. We are > delighted that the week when we can publish all the digitised records > online has now arrived.†> > It was, she said, “the most significant ever genealogy project in the > history of the NLI.†> > The microfilms have been available to NLI visitors since the 1970s but > digitisation means that for the first time anyone, anywhere will be able > to access them. A dedicated hashtag for the new service is > #ancestorsonline > > Further information at www.nli.ie, or @NLIreland > > > > > ------------------------------- > 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 --------------------------------------------- This message was sent using SnowCrest WebMail. http://www.snowcrest.net ------------------------------- 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