Please do not reply to my message if you want to help those below; this is a response to the messages below. Look under Cyndislist.com Ireland, to find a list of the Heritage Centers with addresses and information on areas covered. Lots of information on the web about what they can do for you. It costs about $50 (or did) for a general search. If your ancestors were Roman Catholic and appear in church records, then you may find out lots of things--I have heard glowing reports from people. If you have done quite a bit of searching yourself and your ancestors did not appear in Roman Catholic church records, then the Heritage Centers are less helpful. I have not learned anything for my $50. I went to Mallow, which covers North Cork, but was unable to find an office open to visit. Many of the centers are places where the computer work is done, not a place for us to visit. Communication is by mail whether from US, Australia, or Ireland itself. The centers vary greatly. I could not talk with anyone at Mallow or in north Mayo, for instance (although they had a wonderful famine exhibit). On the other hand, in 1996 the East Galway center was fantastic and friendly and interested in getting information from its researchers. The Offaly center in Tullamore was also very good and had people to confer with and publications for sale. I suggest you begin by mail. Also, visit all the web sites available through Cyndislist.com and buy yourself a good manual (about US$20) like Grenham's TRACING YOUR IRISH ANCESTORS. I refer to these things over and over to get new ideas of what to do next. Elizabeth KnowltonEW@Compuserve.com Message text written by INTERNET:CountyCork-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: Re: [Cork] Visit to Mallow Heritage Center Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Is it correct that the Mallow Heritage Centre only covers certain parts of the Cork area? Terry From: "Terry & Eileen" <tjk2001@optushome.com.au> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Linda Egan Flynn" <leflynn@pacbell.net> To: <CountyCork-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, April 11, 2002 11:43 PM Subject: Re: [Cork] Visit to Mallow Heritage Center > I've had wonderful results from the Mallow Hertiage Centre by mail. I sent them my husbands > grandmothers name and d.o.b. (1868) and her parents names along with $50 US. > > They sent the parents marriage date and place, ALL their children (I only knew of two) along > with the christening dates and sponsors names. That's not all....they also sent the marriage > of one of the boys and the christening dates and sponsors of his children who are probably > still in C. Cork. They asked for another $25 for all that information and I sent it gladly. > > So if they cannot help you 'while you wait' I'd leave them some money and all the information > you have. > > Linda Egan Flynn > **************************************************************** > > Reisenmaui1@aol.com wrote: > > > We are going to Ireland in August and I plan to visit the Mallow Heritage > > Center. I was just wondering if anyone else has had any experience with what > > can be done there. I understand they do any lookups for you but wondering > > what the cost is for having them do it. > > Thanks for any input. > > Kay<