Thanks, Dennis. In fact people can do their own lookups !!! Go to this web-site, and they are there, county by county !! pdf images of the book !! http://members.cox.net/hayes1966/lo1876.htm No need to ask anyone else to do the looking .. (and this list can get back to Obits) James ----- Original Message ----- From: Dennis Ahern Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2003 01:43:42 -0400 To: IRELAND-OBITS-L@rootsweb.com Subject: appropriatness of Landowner lookups > > James Huey said > > >At the risk of being bombed as a "party-pooper", (or being jumped on by > >the list-owner), I thought this was a list to post Obituaries found in > >Irish records. Lookups for Landowner lists, and queries about specific > >County records which are NOT obituaries, should go to other more > >appropriate lists. > > I second that emotion. What people need to realize is that the book > "Land Owners in Ireland; Return of Owners of Land of One Acre and > Upwards in the several Counties, Counties of Cities, and Counties of > Towns In Ireland" is a very limited in scope. It is not as extensive a > list as Griffith's Valuation, for example. Only a small percentage of > landowners had more than one acre. All of the Aherns in Ireland are shown > at http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~aherns/ahloii.htm#landowners for > example and they total 15 persons, or 14 actually as Charles Ahern owns > land in two different counties. I would suggest that in future anyone > with a lookup request, contact Maryann directly. You might also find that > this book is available at a public Library near you. > > -dja