This library certainly sounds worth investigating, Dave. If anyone gets to it, let us know. I'd love to know precisely what is in those OS records. I may have to set aside a day to be in Dublin next trip "home." Janet C On 3/24/15 3:27 PM, Dave H wrote: > Apparently not. > > DH > ----------------------------------------------------- > > > > > > FERMANAGH-GOLD Names of people who emigrated to America,townland on > which they lived,year of emigration and city in United States or > Canada where each intended to settle > > > Date: Thu, 01 Aug 2013 18:13:18 +0100 > > Has anyone experience using the RIA?? > > Thanks in advance, DH > --------------------------- > > Quote; The Royal Irish Academy, Dublin. — This library, rich in old > manuscript collections, is open to the public. Its holdings are > described in A Catalogue of > Irish Manuscripts in the Royal Irish Academy, by Elizabeth Fitzpatrick > and Dr. Kathleen Mulchrone, assisted by A. I. Pearson, Dublin, 1948, > pp. 586. > > This is another old library, rich in records for compiling genealogy. > Some of its special records are: Ordinance Survey Records, 1833-1834; > 1835- 1837, etc., > dealing with the parishes of Ulster, describing places and giving > miscellaneous information, such as names of people who emigrated to > America (name, age, religion (R. > C. or P.), townland on which they lived, year of emigration, and city > in United States or Canada where each intended to settle) ; > > Many 17th and 18th century pedigrees in manuscript ; > > > > Books of Survey and Distribution compiled in 1677, by Thomas Taylor > (this survey was ordered to have records of > names of the proprietors of property in Ireland before the Rebellion > of 1640, and record of new proprietors to whom the > estates were granted by the Commonwealth) ; a large collection of > lists of Freeholders; the Wendele manuscripts, being 190 > volumes containing pedigrees of Leinster and Munster families; and a > large collection of newspapers. > > (The Freemans' Journal, also called The Public Monitor, 1772-1773, a > rare weekly paper, gave much personal news and is full of genealogical > notes.) > >