This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/YWC.2ACI/5371.1 Message Board Post: Kate, What is the film number you were looking at? If I have a copy in the FHC I visit I will take a look for you. It is most likely written in Latin and the FHC should have a Latin-English word list to help you. Once you get familiar with it, it gets a easier to understand. Also look on the internet for the Leitrim Genealogy Centre and see what they offer. They have a subscription service that will do research for you. Jack

Why was the film hard to read? Language, unfamiliar handwriting in an old-time script. or was the original simply too smudged and moldy to read, as some I have seen from Kilkenny? I took pictures under the reader, (no printer available) and cleaned them up in Photoshop (mainly brightness and contrast) Some were improved, but some were too far gone. Good luck.