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.)