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