Tia A fairly good explanation here. http://history.nuim.ie/research/morpeth-roll/what-morpeth-roll Regards Clare On Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 10:51 PM, <acmbjc@aol.com> wrote: > > Continued post... > > > > > Listers: > > > In a recent W.P.G.S. [Western Pennsylvania Genealogical Society] > newsletter, Volume 39, Number 5 there is an article about a historic Irish > document called "Morpeth Roll". The article states it is available on > Ancestry.com. When I searched the card catalog on Ancestry, this document > is NOT listed. Does anyone know anything further about this document? > > > It is reportedly 420 meters long, and has been digitized, and is > considered a "pre-Famine census substitute, a genealogy resource, a family > heirloom or a politically significant document". > > > Am very curious to learn what this contains. Anyone? > > > TIA. > > > Marybeth C. > acmbjc@aol.com > > > > _______________ > --------------- > > Policies of the IRL-Kerry List: > http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~irlker/mailing.html > 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. > > To subscribe to the Digest version of the list, please send an email to > IRL-KERRY-D-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'subscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message. > > To visit the County Kerry Research and Resources Page go to: > http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~irlker/ > > Share your stuff! If you transcribed research data, share it with the > Irish genealogy community. Contribute it to the Kerry website to reach a > wide audience. Contact Ann Hammer, data maintenance. Her contact info is > at http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~irlker/ contrib.html > > ------------------------------- > 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 >