Hi Folks, What do you folks think of the Ulster Historical Foundation? I notice that if I become a member, I have access to many records, but mainly in a few counties. (Down and Antrim if I remember correctly?) All that I have found so far on my family members has been in County Tyrone, but I see on a map that Down and Antrim are pretty close. Has anyone purchased a membership to this site? What do you think? Thanks, Joan Researching BOND, MEAGHER and PELLERIN in Port Felix, Nova Scotia. Researching LAFORET in Williamsburg NY and E. Boston MA Researching CONNOLLY in Cty Tryone Ireland and Ontario Canada

The UHF is, among other things, the official (government-appointed) research center for Cos. Antrim and Down, so, yes, they have more Antrim / Down records than anything else. They do, however, collect records from all over Ireland (not just Northern Ireland) and have some resources that are country-wide (Flaxgrowers List, Calendar of Wills, etc.). They also do research for a fee in both the Dublin and Belfast depositories, organize seminars / conferences, publish journals, etc. I've been a happy member of their Guild for years, but not primarily for their online databases (most of which I've either exhausted or don't apply to my research interests). Like you, most of my folks are in Tyrone (the rest in Donegal), and I have noticed that the UHF is getting more Tyrone material, but it's nowhere near the volume of what they have for Antrim and Down. They will never have Tyrone BMD / parish registers, because the county center for Tyrone (Irish World, formerly Heritage World) (and the affiliated Irish Family History Foundation site) has those. The UHF comes annually to the US on a lecture tour (in different parts of the country each time), so it's worth going to see them if they're ever in traveling distance of you (or in a location you'd like to visit). I highly recommend them, but want to clarify -- you wouldn't be subscribing to a site (like you do with Ancestry), you'd be joining a society (in their case, their affiliated Guild) that has a Members Only section of the site as one member benefit (and lots of other member benefits). HTH Claire K. On Nov 1, 2009, at 7:29 AM, Joan wrote: > Hi Folks, > > What do you folks think of the Ulster Historical Foundation? I > notice that if I become a member, I have access to many records, > but mainly in a few counties. (Down and Antrim if I remember > correctly?) All that I have found so far on my family members has > been in County Tyrone, but I see on a map that Down and Antrim are > pretty close. > > Has anyone purchased a membership to this site? What do you think?...