Hi Kathleen Attached Donegal Ancestry booklet produced by Boyd Gray. Boyd is a member of this mailing list. No attachments on the Mailing list message. In some case I have used Tiny URLs to save space. Always start with what you know and write it for refernce................. Work back from the present, some records may give you a clue as to where things happen, BMD etc. Next check the IGI at family search. http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Search/frameset_search.asp Then visit your local Family History Centre: http://www.familysearch.org/eng/Library/FHC/frameset_fhc.asp Ask the staff lots of questions, many FHCs have staff that are knowledgeable about How To Do Research. Look at the resources they have on their In-House PCs, many disk sets and data files are on these computers and not anywhere else except Salt Lake City. Next review the films (with advise from the staff) that they have in-house. and proceed from there. Next join the various mailing lists and message boards at Rootsweb and Yahoo dealing with genealogy. http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/index/intl/IRL/ http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/index/index.html Here are a few members websites that deal with Ireland/Donegal My site: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~hiflyte/ and visit the links page at: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~hiflyte/links/links.htm Lindels Site: Has the most complete listing for Donegal on-line........................ http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~donegal/ Carol Queen's Site: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~donegaleire/ Bob Hilchey's site: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~bhilchey/DonegalMain.html Don Kelly's Site: http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~irldon2/index.htm http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~irldon/ John Hayes Site: A must for reference data e.g. Griffith Valuation http://www.failteromhat.com/ Record Dates and locations http://www.irishtimes.com/ancestor/browse/counties/rcmaps/donegalrc.htm Newspaper Donegal Democrat: http://www.donegaldemocrat.ie/ Reference data at the FHC or on-line Ireland Catalog held by LDS (mainly in Salt Lake Ut) must be ordered in via your local FHC. http://tinyurl.com/5dl3d Family Search Research Guidance: http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Search/RG/frameset_rg.asp Family Search Research Guidance for Ireland: http://tinyurl.com/2ujaxj Family History Archives at Brigham Young Uvniversity (BYU) http://www.lib.byu.edu/fhc/ LDS Indexing Project: http://www.familysearchindexing.org/en/home/home.jsf?pname=homeTab LDS Family Search Pilot Project: http://search.labs.familysearch.org/recordsearch/start.html?datestamp=1183776820771#p=0 Index welcome page http://labs.familysearch.org/ And last but not least. Ask questions on the Mailing List Donegaleire List: http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/index/intl/IRL/DONEGALEIRE.html Ireland -Co-Donegal http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/index/intl/IRL/IRL-CO-DONEGAL.html Ireland Donegal http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/index/intl/IRL/IRL-DONEGAL.html IRL-Donegal-Rollcall List: http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/index/intl/IRL/IRL-DONEGAL.html The above should keep you busy for a few hours Bob Cdn ================================== Kathleen Kane wrote: <SNIP> > Your family history and pictures are fascinating .I have not been at genealogy research long . I have managed to locate family members back to Donegal , 1848 . The problem is , I cannot afford to go onto the search engines with fees . Can you advise me to any sites , specific to Donegal , that are free. I would appreciate this very much . Thank you > Kathleen Kane > ******************************************* >