At the recent national genealogical conference held in Boston, Michael Egan, who was one of the founders of the Irish Family History Society in 1984, that there are thousands of records all on index cards, ready to be computerized. The reason the records have not been computerized and available to people has to do with politics. Michael said that we should write to the following person to ask if the records that are on index cards could be computerized and made available to those of us who are doing family research in the West Cork area. He said writing directly to Mr. O'Donoghue is the only way to change the situation. For those of us who have to put up with the "black hole" (lack of records/heritage center available in West Cork), maybe we can make a difference by writing. Mr. John O'Donoghue Minister of Arts, Sport and Tourism c/o Dail Eireann Kildare Street Dublin 2 Jan