Pat, I am away from home at the moment but if you will email me after March 14 I will attempt to help. Bill Fahy www.westcorkgenealogy.com -------------- Original message -------------- From: PJU <[email protected]> > At 03:01 AM 2/10/2007, Denis wrote: > > > There is a group of volunteers at > >the Cork County Library who are indexing parish records for Cork City, but > >they are not yet prepared to take research requests. > *********************** > > Denis, there is an old, but unconfirmed, story that implies that a > former bishop of Cork found that some professional researchers were > profiting from selling their services by searching diocesan > church-records. Based on that, he told all pastors to stop allowing > that practice as he did not want others to profit from what were considered > "church-owned records". As a result,very few such records were ever > opened to the public, and still are not readily available (even from > the Family History Library). > > I am particularly interest interested in the West Cork areas of > Skibbereen, Leap and Union Hall/Myross. > > Is there any truth in that old story and are old, transcribed records > of Skibbereen, Leap and Union Hall available anywhere? > > ... Pat > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message