Thanks Mags. I am aware that many were bapized at home and many, many baptisms were never recorded, or just plain lost. I plan to keep looking as I know her parents...actually I have an oral history which goes back to about 1760. I am really very lucky...it was given to me on one of my trips back to the homeland. Maybe one of these days we will all find the missing ancestors that have been misplaced!! :-) Maureen At 09:25 AM 3/16/2008, Margaret Butler wrote: >Hi Maureen, >I was interested to read what you said re.'Heritage centre...has most of her >siblings, so I can't figure out why not her', and that you think she may >have had a different first name. >I have similar puzzle, all of dozen siblings of my ancestor are to be found >in heritage centre/parish records, but not my g-grandfather's baptism. It >was suggested to me that if he was ill as a new born baby, the priest may >have come to the house (half way up a mountain!) and baptised the baby, but >not entered the details in the registers. >Therefore the heritage centre wouldn't have the records either. The centres >are only as good as the material , and the staff, they work with to start >with - and as people have said, mistakes can and do happen with the >transcriptions. >Cheers >Mags >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Roger-Maureen Maloney" <moemaloney@verizon.net> >To: <irl-limerick@rootsweb.com> >Sent: Sunday, March 16, 2008 3:23 AM >Subject: Re: [IRL-LIMERICK] Irish Family History Foundation and J.J. Woods > > > > Hi Jan....glad to know you also wrote to Ms. Mitchell. I told her > > basically the > > same thing that you did regarding their fees. I have been searching for > > my > > grandmother from Cavan for years without success. I do know that the > > Heritage > > Center in Cavan has most of her siblings, so I can't figure why not > > her. I am beginning > > to think that she had a different first name than we knew her by. I > > told Ms. Mitchell > > if they could devise a way to searh for children of a certain set of > > parents, that would > > be a great help for most of us. > > > > Let's all hope that in time these databases will be available free to > > search and then we can > > either pay a membership fee or the cost of the document. I have no > > problem with that, but > > this idea of paying for each search is nonsense, especially with the > > present cost of our devalued > > dollar. > > > > Hope you and the family are doing well. It has been a bit since we > > corresponded!! > > > > Maureen > > > > > > > > At 03:30 PM 3/15/2008, you wrote: > >>Thank you to "J.J.Woods" for sharing the informaton about Olivia Mitchell. > >>I > >>have used the email address he so graciously shared to thank Olivia for > >>her > >>integrity and ethics. I did say I would be willing to pay a fair annual > >>membership to help defray the cost of keeping the web site running. It > >>would > >>have to be fair, though. We could then access whatever records we were > >>interested in. > >> > >>It is my understanding that transcribing the records was part of a > >>training/make work program. The workers had no expertise in reading > >>records > >>or in genealogy. I have used the Mallow Heritage Center several times over > >>the past few years and have then checked some records when I was in > >>Ireland > >>at the National Library. I have found MANY errors in transcription. > >>Sometimes the errors are inconsequential but other times they are not. As > >>one example, I was given the name Roderick Roche as the oldest son. So > >>that > >>meant I had to look for a paternal grandfather with that name. I knew that > >>name did not run in my family so I ended my search. Last year, when I was > >>in > >>Ireland, I checked this record myself on the films at the National > >>Library. > >>The first name was not Roderick, but Garrett. WOW! That was exactly the > >>name > >>I had been looking for. > >> > >>Jan > >> > >> > >>------------------------------- > >>To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > >>IRL-LIMERICK-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' > >>without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > > IRL-LIMERICK-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > -- > > This email has been verified as Virus free. > > Virus Protection and more available at http://www.plus.net > > > > > > -- > > No virus found in this incoming message. > > Checked by AVG. > > Version: 7.5.519 / Virus Database: 269.21.7/1330 - Release Date: > > 15/03/2008 14:36 > > > > > > >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >IRL-LIMERICK-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' >without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message