Before everyone gets over excited I am yet again going to point out the fact that - The Dublin Library do not have ALL the entire Roman Catholic parish registers on Microfilm Yes they have 520 films but they are not and never will be the complete set of Parish registers for Dublin - and I simply find it hard when people release these media things and suggest that ALL parish registers exists. SOrry for my two pence worth but I am tired of reading this fact that is not true. Cheers Cara ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, November 06, 2010 3:06 AM Subject: [IRL-DUBLIN] IRL-DUBLIN] The National Library of Ireland --Catholic register collection > >From another List: > > Friday, 29 October 2010 > Next major online offering may be entire Catholic register collection > > The National Library of Ireland (NLI) is planning to scan all 520 > microfilms that make up its collection of Roman Catholic parish registers > and put the > scans online. > > While they won't be transcribed (so genealogists will still be going > cross-eyed and pulling their hair out with frustration at the many > illegible pages > of records) nor indexed, this step would be hugely beneficial. At present, > family historians have to visit the NLI in person, and only one microfilm > for each parish is made available at any one time. > > So, while not perfect, having this resource online would be an outstanding > advance. The collection represents, for the majority of researchers, the > main source of birth, marriage and death records for pre-1864 (when civil > registration started). > > The project is still at the tender stage, so it's some way off, but > scanning and uploading 520 films to the web isn't an enormous undertaking > and > should be achievable within a year from now. > > Source: John Grenham/Irish Times" > > _http://irish-genealogy-news.blogspot.com/2010/10/next-major-online-offering > -may-be.html_ > (http://irish-genealogy-news.blogspot.com/2010/10/next-major-online-offering-may-be.html) > ****************************** > ATTENTION TO ALL:- Do any of you ever get to the bottom of this mail?, and > do you remove the details that do not apply to your mail and change the > SUBJECT LINE for best useage of ARCHIVED MATERIALS. > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > I use BullGuard Spamfilter to keep my inbox clean. It is completely free: www.bullguard.com/freespamfilter