James, Yes!! IF the transcription is correct. Remember the handwriting question that I had the other day. WE all agreed that it was Leticia. FMP had it as Artur. The greatest advantage is using them when you DON'T know WHERE to look. I have submitted many, many corrections to them. I had one family where I had the children's baptisms but could NOT find the parents marriage. I just looked back a year or so from the first child's baptism. It was a very difficult record to read but, because I KNEW the names I was looking for, I recognized it when I found it. I then notified FMP that I had found a record that they did not have. After a couple of emails they sent me the link to the record that they had and asked me to submit the correction from there. They had neither parties surname correct. I remember the woman's surname was Walsh and I think they had something like March. I cannot even remember what the husband's surname was, but I never would have gotten it from the transcription as it was so far off. In the parish of Clane in Kildare, there is a whole portion of a register that has the mother's surname as the child's surname NOT the father's. It would seem that this is because previously the recordings appeared as: XXXXX child of YYYYY and ZZZZZ Kelly. Kelly being the family surname, but following the mother's name. Then they appear as: XXXXX child of YYYYY KELLY and ZZZZZ Walsh, and they just kept transcribing the surname following the mother's name as the child's surname. Out of 7 results, the first 4 that I checked had 3 WRONG. At that point I sent FMP an email telling them that they had a problem with that microfilm # and I would NOT be submitting any more corrections as I had an appointment to get to and was trying to get these done first. I think that out of the 7 - 5 were wrong. After that I began searching those records using BOTH the father's and mother's surnames and found many more that were wrong. I did continue to report the errors after my appointment. So, I am using FMP as a guide, but I ALWAYS look at the original record and then look around in those for additional records that I may have missed. Slán, Marge in Southern California Searching: Golden, Sullivan, Kelly, Shea, O'Connor in Kerry and Connecticut Fee, Cassidy, Gilbride in Fermanagh, Cavan and Connecticut Lynch in Kildare, Limerick and Connecticut Walsh, Stackpole, Garry, Donovan, Doyle, Clowney/Clooney, King in Kildare | From: "James Mullan" <[email protected]> | To: "eireannslass @dslextreme.com" <[email protected]> | Sent: Friday, April 22, 2016 2:26:51 PM | Subject: Re: FERMANAGH-GOLD Using the FREE RC Parish Register Transcription | records on FindMyPast | Marge, | I'm spending a lot of time going through the registers at | http://registers.nli.ie/ . So that I fully understand your message below, | are you saying that all the RC records in http://registers.nli.ie/ have been | transcribed and can be accessed at FindMyPast? | James | -----Original Message----- | From: Marge in SoCal via | Sent: Friday, April 22, 2016 1:55 PM | To: fermanagh-gold | Subject: FERMANAGH-GOLD Using the FREE RC Parish Register Transcription | records on FindMyPast | When you don't know where to look at http://registers.nli.ie/ , that's when | FindMyPast comes in VERY handy. Those records are FREE forever. | You must register for a FREE account if you do not have one (no credit card | required) at findmypast.com/ | 1. Sign in first (otherwise you need to repeat your search again after | you sign in) | 2. You will get ALL results - only the RC Parish Register records are | free - so be sure to only click on those results, otherwise you will get the | option to upgrade | 3. You can narrow the search results by selecting "birth, marriage, | death" | 4. You can further narrow the results by selecting birth OR marriage OR | death - but you will still get the civil records for same | 5. Be sure to ONLY click on the FREE results | Happy hunting, | Marge in Southern California | Searching: | Golden, Sullivan, Kelly, Shea, O'Connor in Kerry and Connecticut | Fee, Cassidy, Gilbride in Fermanagh, Cavan and Connecticut | Lynch in Kildare, Limerick and Connecticut | Walsh, Stackpole, Garry, Donovan, Doyle, Clowney/Clooney, King in Kildare | ========================= | https://www.facebook.com/groups/FermanaghGold/ | ------------------------------- | 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