Anne, You can count me in - are you going to send this same message to Mid- Antrim? On Apr 1, 2010, at 10:42 AM, Anne Klintworth wrote: > Hello everyone. > > We have been talking with some people in Ballymena and would like to > have the people on the list comment on the interest in research in > the Ballymena area. > > What is your opinion of the possibility for small group trips to > Ballymena, with local contact with people with local knowedge and > familiar with the different townlands. Possibly to include research > at the Ballymena Library, cemetery trips, and church visits. > Probably with transportation incuded. Hopefully with the full > cooperation with the local government, museum and library. > > The idea would be to help establish local contacts and the ability > to gather local knowledge that has been collected by word of mouth > as well as the records available. > > Do you think this type of trip would be of interest to a lot of > people? It would definitely not be a big group tour. This would be > a much more personalized type of thing. NI sightseeing would be > optional, possibly outside of the group tour. Also a trip to PRONI > and other Belfast research venues. > > I was asked to get your input on this subject and would appreciate > any comments. > > Anne > > > > > Anne Shier Klintworth > > Check out my genealogy blog at http://genealogygirl.wordpress.com/ > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] > with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and > the body of the message