Thanks Susan, The article refers to Kerry Church records. I wonder if that might include parishes in Country Cork within the Diocese of Kerry! Anyway, as pointed out in one of the comments to the article, "... the website www.irishgenealogy.ie the article states - no hyphen...". www.irishgenealogy.ie John On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 9:16 PM, Susan Daily <cullivans@gmail.com> wrote: > I saw this article mentioned in Dick Eastman's newsletter, and wanted to > share. I know there are Beara listers who do have some overlap into the > Kerry area, so maybe this may be a good source for you! If you click on the > link, you will also get to read some user comments which may answer your > questions. They are not online today, but might be appearing Nov 24. > > > http://blog.eogn.com/eastmans_online_genealogy/2009/11/kerry-church-records-to-appear-online.html > > Kerry Church Records to Appear Online > The Clerical Whispers web site has an article of interest to anyone with > Kerry ancestry. The site states: > > Almost 600,000 Kerry church records have been handed over to the Department > of Arts, Sport and Tourism as part of a major genealogy project. > > They include documents relating to baptism, marriage and death, some of > which date back to the 1750s. The records will now appear free of charge on > the irish-genealogy.ie website and will allow people to trace their Kerry > roots more easily. > > You can read the full article at > > http://clericalwhispers.blogspot.com/2009/11/kerry-church-records-handed-over-to.html > . > > My thanks to Judith Wight for telling me about this story. > > ------------------------------- > 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 >