Fintan makes an excellent point here. If it is important to you, you should always look at original documents (or microfilm of same) rather than trust transcriptions). Many folks reported that the Irish genealogy project, devised as a "work program", resulted in many transcription errors causing it not to be worth the cost in some cases. Ray Marshall -----Original Message----- From: irl-kerry-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:irl-kerry-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Fintan Sheehan Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2008 11:45 AM To: Lizziems@aol.com; hdipilato@comcast.net; irl-kerry@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [IRL-KERRY] Casey advice Granted the type is v v small, but Casey and his army of volunteers who transcribed records in 1950s deserve alot of credit. I was camped out in National library in Dublin every evening for 2 weeks wading through films of original latin church records for one parish. When I saw same stuff transcribed in Casey vols I was gobsmacked. Transcription is error prone and presume they had to take some shortcuts so you could go to original records or contact parish directly if u have a query on record or feel there is something missing. Regards, Fintan ----- Original Message ---- From: "Lizziems@aol.com" <Lizziems@aol.com> To: hdipilato@comcast.net; irl-kerry@rootsweb.com Sent: Wednesday, 12 March, 2008 4:32:13 PM Subject: Re: [IRL-KERRY] Casey advice I don't have any advice, I just want you to know that I too got bleary eyed looking through the Casey Collection to the point that I stopped going to my local FHC. I got so fed up with finding information scattered all over the pages and the small fine print, that I decided that maybe, I really didn't care to find my Irish Ancestors, if that is what it was going to take. Liz - in not so sunny but warm Space Coast, Fl.