Hi everyone! I came across these two addresses while doing research. Does anyone happen to know if they are still in existence? GiGi Chesapeake, VA Researching: Shea, Kelly, Horgan, Doyle Killarney Genealogical Centre Cathedral Walk Killarney Co Kerry Ireland Regestry of Births, Deaths, & Marriages, Southern Health Board, Killarney Co. Kerry IRELAND "The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who do nothing about them" Albert Einstein --------------------------------- Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now.

> Hi everyone! > I came across these two addresses while doing research. Does anyone > happen to know if they are still in existence? yes and maybe The Southern Health Board became part of the Health Services Executive a few years ago, but the registry office is still at that address. I know someone who got married there a couple of weeks ago. They are the official government agency in charge of BMD registration. The Genealogical centre hasn't offered a service for many a year. I was down there 2 or 3 years ago and they had been closed (to the public) for a long time. I was told that they had abandoned the idea of a "visitor" centre/shop/café, which was the original plan, and were hoping to relaunch as a web-based service, but that doesn't seem to have happened. I have heard/seen nothing in the local media about the place since, either. The main purpose of the centre was to take people off unemployment assistance and have them "transcribe" records onto computers as part of a training programme. There didn't seem to be any genealogist employed, and I wouldn't be too confident about the quality of the transcriptions, if they still exist.

further to the above, just googled and I find the closure was more than seven years ago: http://archives.tcm.ie/thekingdom/2000/12/08/story5748.asp