Google tells us that the IGSI has an excellent paper written by Kyle Betit, an extremely knowledgeable research genealogist, on the Irish Estate Papers here: http://www.rootsweb.com/~irish/igsi_published/cens-sub/betit.htm You might contact the IGSI also and inquire about the status of their Estate Paper indexing project that ten years ago began to finance work being by Trinity College or someone with access to index those Estate Papers whose locations were known. I don't see any reference to it on the IGSI home page (which is finally joining the Internet). -----Original Message----- From: irl-kerry-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:irl-kerry-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Declan O'Connor Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2008 4:39 PM To: IRL-KERRY-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [IRL-KERRY] Lord Ventry's estate papers A likely location is ...THE IRISH LAND COMMISSION. This body has technically been abolished by statute. The Department of Agriculture and Food now holds all of its vast records. The Land Commission was the Government body which purchased the Ventry ( and other landlords' estates ) for ultimate distribution and sale to the existing estate tenants ( my family,and hundreds more ). It would have required the estate records for the necessary investigative legal research and 'paperwork' generally....DEC ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to IRL-KERRY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.516 / Virus Database: 269.20.2/1272 - Release Date: 2/11/2008 5:28 PM