Hello Bonnie, Some years ago, I spent a lot of time at the State Library of New South Wales, in Sydney, going through the "O'Keif, etc" volumes, extracting Toomey information. It was a huge job even though there are indexes as the indexes are not perfect. Basically, these books contain information about families in the West Cork and East Kerry area of Munster, Ireland and in many instances are transcripts of the surviving church records, including the Roman Catholic Church. Some of these were originally written in Latin and are open to the vagaries of translation. In many instances these books contain the only information available in many rural parishes of southern Ireland. Because they are transcripts, it is likely they would contain dates and places. However, they can be a bit of a lottery and only by looking at the volumes will you know if there is more information recorded. Unfortunately, I have moved away from Sydney and do not have access to them anymore. Have you considered trying to contact the person who put the information into Ancestry.com? I wish you the best with your research. Regards...Rex Toomey Port Macquarie NSW Australia -----Original Message----- From: B1house@aol.com [mailto:B1house@aol.com] Sent: Friday, 28 July 2006 11:51 AM To: IRL-CORK-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Book information Dear listers: On Ancestry.com I have found a reference to a marriage in 1815 between James PURVIS and Elizabeth PATTERSON in the Diocese of Cork & Ross. The book that it came from is a series of volumes titled "Index of O'Kief, Coshe Mange, Slieve Lougher and Upper Blackwater in Ireland", 16 volumes, Birmingham, Alabama, Knocknagree Historical Fund, 1952, 1971. Authors are Albert Eugene Casey, Eleanor L. Downey-Prince, and Ursula Dietrich. Is anyone out there familiar with these volumes? My question is whether it is worth paying a research fee to a library to check this marriage to see if there is further information, such as exact date, exact location, etc. I have located the volumes in several libraries but there is a fee for research and hate to pay $25 to find out what is on Ancestry.com is all there is. Any suggestions are appreciated. Bonnie House