Hi Ellen John Grenham in his book TRACING YOUR IRISH ANCESTORS says the following: After a deed had been signed and witnessed one of the parties had a copy know as a Memorial made, signed it and had it witnessed by two people, at least one of whom had been a witness to the original. The Memorial was then sworn before a Justice of the Peace, as a faithful copy of the Original and sent to the Registry. Here it was transcribed into a large Manuscript Volume and indexed. The original [copy] was was retained and stored and these are all still preserved in the valuts of the Registry. I have been sent a few copies by others and they are copies of the Original[copies] and are in much better shape than the M/F copies of the MSS. Volunes. The Irish use the PUNT and it is somewhat lower than the English Pound. Today's quote is British Pound 1.63872 to the US $ Irish Punt 1.41898 to US $ Hope this helps - I have rec'd no answer to my questions from this list or the IRELAND-L@rootsweb.com List. Bill