Names and details on Local Histories which you have on your shelves are rolling in. I received a tip on where to find the Ordnance Survey Memoirs for Northern Ireland which are available through All-Ireland Heritage at <http://www2.smart.net/~aihdrh/osmem100.html> Here is a description found at that site: The Memoirs are a uniquely detailed source for the history of much of Ireland for the time frame immediately precedingthe Great Famine of the 1840s. They were written primarily in the 1830s and intended to be printed to accompany the "6 inch to one mile" map series: but they failed to reach the presses until just recently! Now the manuscripts are being published in a series as a joint undertaking of the Royal Irish Academy,Dublin, and the Institute of Irish Studies, Queen's University of Belfast. The Memoirs document the landscape and situation, buildings and antiquities, landholdings and population, employment and livelihood of the civil parishes which are covered in each, some volumes even containing names and details of emigrants during the period written about. [!!!!] As such they are valuable sources of information for the family genealogist and local historian to use in "fleshing out" those cold statistics and impersonal data research generates by putting "people on the land back in time".The series volumes are numbered consecutively, beginning with Vol. 1.However, several counties have required more than a single volume to complete the publication of all available manuscript material. These"intra-county" volumes, while numbered sequentially for the county, do not have a sequential series volume number. The counties for which volumes are available are: Antrim, Armagh, Down, Fermanagh, Londonderry, Tyrone. Go to the site for more detailed information. Unfortunately, "the Ordnance Survey Memoirs for the Republic rest at the Royal Irish Academy in Dublin in 54 boxes and have not see the light of day for many years." Wouldn't you love to see these available on a searchable CD? I have started going through the various Heritage Center webpages to see what they have available for sale that would fit into the description of "local or parish history". This information is not easy to come by, so I would really appreciate your help in contributing more. Also, let me know if you know what is GOOD, where it can be purchased, or found in a library. And would you be willing to have your name or e-mail address attached to the listing, so you could be contacted for further information about the book. At least for now, the list will be posted at the IrishGenealogy.com site at <http://www.irishgenealogy.com/irish.htm>. More will be coming. By the way, if anything I have listed is "useless" please tell me and I'll take it off. Sunjective opinions are just fine. Anne _____________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com Or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866]