Hi Robert, Thanks, that makes great sense! Inexperienced researchers may be frustrated by it just being the calendars, but anyone who's ever traveled to PRONI and begrudged the time it takes to get up to speed on pulling the numbers for what to order into the Reading Room will see this as a great time saver! Personally, I look forward to it going online. Claire K. On Aug 26, 2008, at 3:24 PM, Ulster Ancestry wrote: > > > Hello Claire, > > PRONI have scanned their catalogues/calenders {you know the big > blue/red/black books that line the walls of search room} > These are going on line some time later this year, not the actual > contents of the Archive. > I have a feeling that this may further fustrate rather than help > distance researchers as they will see on line for the first time > indexes to hundreds of thousands of available paper collections but > will not be able to get at the actual content. > > best regards > Robert > www.ulsterancestry.com > >>> A question re NI news reporting I'm hoping someone living in NI >>> can > answer for me. My cousin in Belfast (who does not do >>> genealogy > research, but knows all the family stories from >>> growing up on the > family farm in Tyrone) says a recent news >>> report is that "all of the > PRO records" are going online. I >>> assume she means PRONI (because she > asked if this means I won't >>> be going to Ireland to research in the > future).> > _________________________________________________________________ > Win New York holidays with Kellogg’s & Live Search > http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/107571440/direct/01/ > > ------------- > Our community web-site: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/ > ~cotyroneireland > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > COTYRONEIRELAND-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message Claire K seekay@comcast.net Plan now! FGS '08 "Footprints in Family History" 3-6 September 2008, Philadelphia, PA http://www.fgsconference.org