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

An annual membership fee sounds like a reasonable idea. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jan Fortado" <janfortado@comcast.net> To: <irl-limerick@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, March 15, 2008 3:30 PM Subject: [IRL-LIMERICK] Irish Family History Foundation and J.J. Woods > 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 >