Thanks Bee - it doesn't look from that, that the 'new' records will appear in the on-line IGI anytime soon! Hopefully we can now order the films from the LDS - sounds like reading the films will take a week of rainy days so perhaps winter will be a good time. Many thanks Eliz. O'C New Zealand ----- Original Message ----- From: <goughb@eircom.net> To: <cotipperary@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2008 12:59 AM Subject: Re: [COTIPPERARY] COTIPPERARY Digest, Vol 3, Issue 174 > cotipperary@rootsweb.com wrote: > > < For those of you who may not know, the church records that are kept in > the National Library are direct copies of the original manuscripts. That > is, they are mostly written in Latin. I found the handwriting very > difficult to read. I did my Cashel & Emly research, many years before > the A.B. came to the position he still holds. (He came from the Kerry > diocese). Because these records were photographed for microfilm many > years ago, before we had the technology we have today, they are rather > fuzzy. What I am saying is, it is a long and tedious task to try and > read through them.