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