Jan Fortado <janfortado@comcast.net> said: >work for them, the genealogists often have very high prices. I have known >of folks to use professionals in Ireland, including Cork. Even though the >family was REALLY poor when in Ireland, the genealogist spends time checking >wills and deeds and other such things, adding on many hours of research. >The person asking for the research isn't aware of how seldom any family >is going to have a deed or will. The genalogists should just check at >first for church and/or vital records to keep the price down. At 50 >euros an hour, research can get expensive. While it isn't the first place I'd look, do not discount the notion of finding a non-wealthy ancestor listed in the wills and administration records. I spent several days on one trip extracting all of the Aherns listed in the Calendars of Wills and Administration in Ireland from 1840 something to 1820 something. There were quite a few of them and one woman left an estate of four pounds. Four pounds is not a tremendous amount, but it could be worth a million if she was your ancestor. -dja