> Two quick points. > > From a North American viewpoint, Ancestry.Com has some of the registers > transcribed, how complete, I do not know. They are charging $us39 per CDRom. The > "whole" of England costs about $us800 - about 30 CDs again $39 each. So there is > a precedence in price of data. Broderbund sells disks likewise. Except for rare > cases they are each portions of something larger - Volume 1 being whatever > seemed to fit on the disk! > Marketing data is tricky. You don't want to spend a small fortune and find > absolutely nothing that fits your needs. On the other hand a professional gene > probably would be delighted to have info at fingertips. I can see local FHC > purchasing commercial CDs of local relevance and charging for data extracted by > photocopy or disk (that is the current practice here.) The UK 1901 census is > going on line January 1 2002 and charging 80p per hit; expensive but making > fairly reliable data easily available. > > That brings me to my 2nd point. I would be delighted to transcribe a parish > register relevant to my searches in a common db format ( say tab delineated). I > am probably going to have to wait another couple of years before I can get over > the pond or to Salt Lake City to really go through the Ballyadams/Laois data. Is > it possible that locals could make good photo copies for us foreigners to > transcribe? The agony of splitting Kellys apart from Kealys is quite an effort! If it means anything, Michael, a Catherine Brennan from Barrowhouse married William Kealy (O'Chaollaidhe) from Slatt (my wife's grandparents ) about 1900 at Ballyadams Ch and for a while operated The Swan. If you see any likely relations while searching for your own ancestry I would be happy to know. > -- > George Tuck > Address and phone number on request to: > gtuck@canada.com > _____________________________ > > Subject: [IRL-LAOIS] Interest in genealogy - a can of worms............ > Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2001 00:57:49 +0100 > From: "Jane Lyons" <jlyons1@iol.ie> > To: IRL-LAOIS-L@rootsweb.com > > > two questions then - maybe it can get broken down from here. > > Records - would you buy them if they were available for your > area > (judgemental-what is the likelihood of use- would hope for say 12+ returns) > ...........would you encourage your local family history society to buy > them? yes as described above > What kind of records do you want? Pure genealogy? Yes - data and sources > The history of the area? To a degree - area town layouts from different periods; how boundaries ahave changed; townlands > Irish stories and history...... For me, less so - more out of interest than digging up verifiable facts. > Would you buy something even though it did not help you specifically - > simply to encourage those with Irish records to publish? No but I might be willing to transcribe. > I'm only trying to think here - what do the researchers want? What is it you > would encourage people to publish? Our "information age" is trying to digitize everything possible to create order for research, decision making and personal pleasure (What horse ran 3rd in the 1940 Grand National???) > It all boils down to economics. ...and the challenge is marketing!!! Cost = workvalue - losses due to inefficiency - profit. > That's life............whether we like it or not > > Jane Hope these ravings help./cheers/gt -- George Tuck Address and phone number on request to: gtuck@canada.com