It would be nice to see all other counties in Ireland following Waterford's example in trying to help amateur genealogists who don't have access to records and have to rely on friends to do the work for them. My BRENNAN/MORAN Family: http://www.brennanfamilyhistory.com Also researching the KELLY's of Co.Laois Ireland. Regards and good luck with your research Michael Brennan Kent England Home: michael@janbren.freeserve.co.uk ----- Original Message ----- From: "Martin Whelan" <mwhelan@deisedesign.com> To: <IRELAND-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, September 22, 2001 9:19 PM Subject: [IRELAND] FREE Griffiths Valuation Online Hi To All List Members I have some news that may be of interest to people interested in genealogical/historical research. Our company Deise Design www.deisedesign.com recently constructed the Waterford County Council web site. www.waterfordcoco.ie . Part of this web site allows access to something called a dynix database. This database contains Griffiths Valuation for Waterford, Gravestone Memorials, Death Register for Waterford 1864-1901 and a host of other items of genealogical interest. You can find the page at http://www.waterfordcoco.ie/index.cgi?art_id=33 It also contains details of how to contact the County Archivist. http://www.waterfordcoco.ie/index.cgi?art_id=10 If any of you wish to contact the archivist please put some thought into your query as she has a very large workload. The site contains details of the contents of the archive. It is hoped to expand this database in the coming months. In the future the site will display Griffiths Maps online (we know how we are going to do that) and Waterford Newspapers from times past (not sure how we are going to do this yet :) ). Please e-mail all comments and criticisms of the site via the site feedback form. Your message will reach the councils internet co-ordinator, she is responsible for the future development of the site. The more feedback the Council get on the new web site the more the new service will be expanded and improved by them. Also if anyone wishes to e-mail me (william@deisedesign.com) with any criticism of the site, feel free to tell me what you think. Yours Martin Whelan Dungarvan Museum Society Online ======================================================================== Martin Whelan | Déise Design | www.deisedesign.com | Tel : 086-8888975 " Our core product Déiseditor © allows organisations to publish information to their web site in a fast and cost effective manner. There is no need for a full time web developer, as the site can be easily updated by the organisations own staff. Instant updates to keep site information fresh. Sites which are updated regularly bring users back. Visit www.deisedesign.com/deiseditor.html for a demonstration " Déiseditor © " Managing Your Information " ======================================================================== ______________________________