A source that is particularly hard to handle is the older newspapers of Ireland as they are so large, and are very tedious to search. The NLI -Dublin did index the Freemen's Journal 1763-1771 but that is now not available for perusal. Newspapers are treasure troves for families such as the landed gentry, merchants, medium sized tradesmen and craftsmen. They are totally useless for farmers, and the small land holder, these people tended to be ignored by the press. Information in the main to be found is marriages. Obituary notices and birth notices were confined to the "rich". So if you are not able to find an obituary notice, in early Irish newsprint, you would have to address where your family was on the social ladder of those times. And apart from isolated areas where early registers exist, or where they are covered by the 1821 census, the years between, 1800-1830 prove a decisive obstacle to the farming community, who were of course the bulk of the population in Ireland in the early 19th Century. It is not easy to foresee how we can overcome this problem, even by future extensive indexing of the extant sources; as one of the saddest features of Irish Genealogy is the generations of neglect of records and indeed of recording records. Cheers Cara