Sorry, but your Familysears.org doesn't work - not valid. --- Original Message ----- From: "Carla Johnson" <csj0767@sbcglobal.net> To: <irl-limerick@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, March 16, 2008 10:40 PM Subject: Re: [IRL-LIMERICK] Irish Family History Foundation and J.J. Woods > Hi Maureen, > > I don't know if this will help but have you tried doing a parent search > on Familysears.org? Once I found my husbands grandfather and who his > parents were then I did a parent search and came up with his siblings. > This would have been difficult otherwise as they were German and from > Denmark. They can go up upwards of ten different names and them all be > their right name. > > Carla > > > > ----- Original Message ---- > From: Roger-Maureen Maloney <moemaloney@verizon.net> > To: irl-limerick@rootsweb.com > Sent: Saturday, March 15, 2008 8:23:54 PM > 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 > > ------------------------------- > 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 >

I think the correct address should be: www.familysearch.org On 17/03/2008, mike@obrienclan.com <mike@obrienclan.com> wrote: > > Sorry, but your Familysears.org doesn't work - not valid. > > --- Original Message ----- > From: "Carla Johnson" <csj0767@sbcglobal.net> > To: <irl-limerick@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Sunday, March 16, 2008 10:40 PM > Subject: Re: [IRL-LIMERICK] Irish Family History Foundation and J.J. Woods > > > > Hi Maureen, > > > > I don't know if this will help but have you tried doing a parent > search > > on Familysears.org? Once I found my husbands grandfather and who his > > parents were then I did a parent search and came up with his siblings. > > This would have been difficult otherwise as they were German and from > > Denmark. They can go up upwards of ten different names and them all be > > their right name. > > > > Carla > > > > > > > > ----- Original Message ---- > > From: Roger-Maureen Maloney <moemaloney@verizon.net> > > To: irl-limerick@rootsweb.com > > Sent: Saturday, March 15, 2008 8:23:54 PM > > 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 > > > > ------------------------------- > > 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 >