As a backdoor approach, does the search system allow you to search for beneficiaries within the wills? A search for William O'Brien as beneficiary within a will and a will pops up showing he is the beneficiary of a will by John O'Brien of Ardagh, Co Limerick. This under the belief that William would be the son of John if age or dob match the will information. My William died in San Francisco in 1864 and I know he was a native of Co Limerick. Having no idea when his parents might have died, presumably in Co Limerick, I have no other way of finding his parents. Food for thought. In doing research we have to look at all angles. Even though I am Protestant, I found that my family was Catholic all the way down to my father through a marriage announcement in the newspaper for my grandfather. It stated he was married by Rev Father Lagan. Mike ----- Original Message ----- From: <littlehouseantiques@att.net> To: <irl-limerick@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, February 23, 2008 3:32 PM Subject: [IRL-LIMERICK] Index To Irish Wills for Co Limerick 1615-1800 > Index To Irish Wills for Co Limerick 1615-1800 > available on Ancestry.com at: > > http://content.ancestry.com/iexec/?htx=List&dbid=7287 > > Includes some other counties as well (Cork among them) > > I don't have a 'full' subscription to Ancestry.com and > cannot access these records > > However by fooling around w/ keywords I can get > it to provide SOME info such as: > > Search Terms > EXACT MATCHES ONLY > First Name: Ann > Last Name: Uniack > Keyword(s) : Indexes To Irish Wills 1909 Vol. 2 Diocese > > (to make it "REVEAL" the title, chapter and Section) > > And what I get is this: > > Ann Uniack > Title: Indexes To Irish Wills 1909 > Chapter: Indexes To Irish Wills 1909 Vol. 2 > Section: Diocese Of Cloyne > Page: ??? > > At any rate, it looks like Michael Shanahan's wife Anne Uniack died before > him and had a will of her own in her own [maiden] name. > > Does anyone have a 'full-blown' subscription to Ancestry.com and could > you do a lookup in this database and tell me if it has any more info to > offer > (like date of will, etc.?) > > Would be happy to do any lookups in any of the databases I do have access > to (all US records) in return :-) > > Thanks! > Kathy > > ------------------------------- > 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 >