Aye, I've run into the same issues with my wife's side of our family - O'Sullivan & Casey from W. Co. Cork - AAARGH! Good hunting, Cliff. Johnston "May the best you've ever seen, Be the worst you'll ever see;" from A Scots Toast by Allan Ramsay ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, June 16, 2009 6:37 PM Subject: Re: Free availability of Irish Records > > > In a message dated 16/06/2009 11:17:15 GMT Daylight Time, > [email protected] writes: > > as in the case of West Cork, mentioned in the email. > Cork, Cashel & Emly and Kerry are the main Roman Catholic dioceses where > the Bishop has not permitted access. > > > Just my luck that ALL my ancestors came from West Cork( Timoleague area), > Cashel & Emly (Pallasgreen area) and Kerry ( Listowel). I have now hit a > huge brick wall by not being able to access these records. > > As mentioned, when names in particular areas are so common then these > "heritage" units are only able to help when you can give them the > information... > which seems to miss the whole point of the reason you are searching. I > don't mind paying but dozens of useless searches are not much use to me. > > In these hard economic times I am truly amazed at their failure to > capitalise on the extra benefits that would spring from making these > records more > widely available. > > Monica > > ------------------------------- > 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