"> You can save money, and time, by doing your index searches before you > leave home using microfilm from the LDS>" Only, Dennis, if one's local LDS centre has the index films as part of their stock in trade. If not, US$5.50 per film. ***** Reply to the LIST ONLY - Please ***** ***** Thanks for your consideration ***** Pádraig Mór, An Sean Gabhar ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dennis Ahern" <ahern@world.std.com> To: <irl-cork@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, November 03, 2006 6:42 AM Subject: Re: Research in Ireland > > CABOCEAN@aol.com said: > >>On Joyce Street , the records office, there is a limit of 5 look ups a >>day for certs and they are strict abouth that! There is a fee to look >>information up in in the indexes as well as a fee for photocopying a >>cert. (I don't know if they include the look up fee in with the >>photocopy). > > As has been pointed out, the General Register Office research room is at > Joyce House in Lombard Street. There are two different sorts of fees > charged related to serarching the index books to births, deaths and > marriages. You pay a fee to have a look at the index books, either pay by > the book or pay by the day. Once you find an entry in the index book, you > fill out a request and they will look up the entry in a register and make > a photocopy. There is a limit of five photocopies a day. > > You can save money, and time, by doing your index searches before you > leave home using microfilm from the LDS, or by going around the corner to > the Gilbert Library where they have the index books on microfilm and there > is no research fee, but you must get a Dublin City Archives Researchers > card. See http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~aherns/march03.htm#add for some > details about the Gilbert Library. > > -dja > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > IRL-CORK-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >