List Members, Posted this info for general interest, I have no connection to this organization just looking for lost family. *__* Received the "Welcome to Pensear.org" brochure, it would appear that this will be a valuable finding aid in tracing lost persons. Granted it will be limited to those who applied for a Old Age Pension in 1908 and limited to NIrl at this time, they state that the records from Irl are being addressed. This will be will give us another road to look at, sadly it will not aid in my search since my people departed during the mid 1850 period. URL: http://www.pensear.org/main.html Below are the opening paragraphs from their brochure. *_What is Pensear_*? "Our researchers have taken the Irish Pension Records which are stored on microfilm and produced a database of all entries. Pensear works by allowing you to search this database using the surname you are currently researching. You decide yourself which records look relevant and pay for only those. These microfilms are available to researchers however they are very difficult to read, are not indexed and are in no particular order so finding what you are looking for can be very time consuming and frustrating. All entries were hand written and in many cases were written in pencil, so some words or letters had faded before being transferred to microfilm. Our researchers when transcribing the films have made no attempt to correct spelling mistakes nor have they tried to amend anything that may not make sense. They have tried as much as possible to show all information contained on each search record. When they were in any doubt about whether or not they were reading a particularly untidy or faded record correctly they have put a question mark. A question mark has also been used when it was impossible to read." "*_The county I am looking for is not there._* Our researchers have transcribed over 80% of these records and these are available right now on our database to help in your search. Only the province of Ulster ie. Antrim, Armagh, Donegal, Down, Fermanagh, Londonderry & Tyrone will be available. One microfilm may contain a small number of entries relating to southern counties. The Pension Records for the southern counties are not held in the same place as the Ulster records and have not been stored on microfilm, however permission is currently being sought to transcribe these records from the original books. More information on how and where these records are stored will follow in our 1^st quarterly bulletin."