Thanks Ernie, That puts me down to 18 films of indexes for sure. One family is on Inch Island, the second is in Co. Louth. How does one figure out the what the districts would be? Is it possible to get a cert without ordering in the volumes? I am not to worried on the Rundle (1866 to 1887) name in Louth but I think the McGinley (1885-1899) name in Donegal may give me some more trouble. Are the indexes typed or hand written? I have had look up info in England's BMD that is hand written. That can be hard to read. Sorry about all the questions, you are the first person who I have been able to ask these of. Tammy ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ernie Kraut" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2003 9:31 PM Subject: [DONEGAL] Re: IRL-CO-DONEGAL-D Digest V03 #88 > Tammy, > > The volumes are arranged by quarter and by county clusters. The index is the way I went because they list all the "Lastname, Firstname, RegistrationDistrict,Volume,Page". It helped me reduce the number of false orders. > > Unless you know the exact time of year for a BMD, you have to look through at least one and maybe four volumes. > > With the index you never have to look at more than two, the index and the exact stipulated volume. > > Ernie > > > Subject: [DONEGAL] BMD > Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2003 23:51:31 -0600 > From: Tammy <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > > > > Hi all, > I had another thought on spending my pre trip time searching for birth, deaths & marriages. Can > anyone tell me who has order through the LDS which I should be looking at first? I noticed indexes > then volumes of years. Am I right to think that the idexes should come first, or is there away to > know which volume one would need instead of getting the index? I have births and marriages ranging > from 1865- 1900. Or any suggestions on how not to spend my flight money on this? > > Tammy > > > > > ==== IRL-CO-DONEGAL Mailing List ==== > Our County Donegal website is: http://www.mindspring.com/~dickod/donegal/index.htm > If you have genealogy data for Donegal, please submit to URL above. > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 >