Hmmm........? It strikes me that whoever wrote this has either a large stash of ready cash, lives in Ireland or both and has not tried to research Irish ancestors from afar Quite straight forward is not a phrase I recognise in relation to many aspects of Irish research :-( Nivard Ovington in Cornwall (UK) >>>Irish research is impossibly difficult << > To the contrary, there is actually quite a compact set of relevant > records, > almost all held centrally in Dublin or Belfast. If you start with enough > information - in particular, a place of origin in Ireland - research is > actually very straightforward.