Just the way things are! Today I received photocopies of 2 pages from Rockcurry Church Register which has been "missing" for years......oh how I'd love to find who has that!! I'm working on a few contacts to see if I can find out who has these registers and if I got them I'd transcribe them for "freepages" etc...not hog them! E Macklin wrote: > OK ... why then would it not dawn on these folks to turn these > registers over > to someone like the Ulster Historical Foundation, or even have the UHF > go looking > for these people as I would presume then that this is not an isolated > occurrence? > > Eric > > From: "Dave Hall" <hallmark1@utvinternet.com> > To: <cotyroneireland@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Sunday, September 06, 2009 1:25 PM > Subject: Re: [CoTyIre] Newtownstwart Town Archives - Secretary C of I > > > Oh that would be TOO easy.....Many parish registers are "held locally" > which means some member of the congregation has them in their house, so > you must find out who has them, where they live then try and get to see > them if the person has time to even show them! > > Was talking to someone recently in Co Monaghan who mentioned an elderly > woman who used to have the registers in her home for a now closed > church, she died, the children have neither the time or interest in them > and they are now stored in a box in the attic..probably never to see the > light of day ever again. > > > > > > --- > avast! Antivirus: Inbound message clean. > Virus Database (VPS): 090906-1, 06/09/2009 > Tested on: 07/09/2009 16:39:05 > avast! - copyright (c) 1988-2009 ALWIL Software. > http://www.avast.com > > > >