Carla Johnson wrote: >I am not a member of the LDS, However I am a librarian at the FHL Center near me. I work with some wonderful people. They have shown me a few things about research and I have been able to share a few ways to do research. As well as I have been able to help them and patrons when they have problems with the computers. If not for them we would I believe have had a harder time finding anything on our relatives. I personally started with their site when I started as I was trying to find information on my husbands grandfather and grandmother who were from Germany and Denmark. They both died before he was even born. > > Carla Johnson > >Judy Christopher <ajuntasc@comcast.net> wrote: > i was so very lucky. I was able to get a book full of family heritage from >the old Limerick Archives at the Granary before the closed. I wish all >could have had the chance to do so. If you know the Civil Parish your >family came from you can write to the church and perhaps the priest there >will be glad to send any records for a donation to the parish church. Judy >Christopher (O'Brien/Fox County Limerick) >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Punch, Candace" >To: >Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2008 3:26 PM >Subject: [IRL-LIMERICK] FW: LDS Films in the church records > > > > >> >> >> >> >>The Bishop of Limerick has put a hold on all church films in his >>control area. He objects to the LDS Practice of doing baptisms and >>confirmations for their dead ancestors to seal them in an eternal chain >>together. They have gotten a lot of flack for their beliefs. I find it >>no different than the Jehovah witnesses and how many people they >>actually will be saved, the Catholic belief in Limbo, or the Shakers, >>who believe in strict celibacy and no giving in marriage. >> >> >> >>It is simply a religious belief, If it is not your belief it means >>nothing to you , right? I feel bad that the Bishop cut millions off >>from records that would unite families and give honor to Ireland as an >>ancestral home of billions of people. I have been trying to piece my >>husband's family together for 22 years. Those are the records I need. I >>know his father, Grandfather and the name of his Great Grandfather. They >>were catholic, so you all know how many records were compiled on that >>side of the religious line and why. I guess I will have to wait till the >>Bishop dies and hope for a Bishop more concerned with families gathering >>and making Ireland the point of their beginnings, then finding threat in >>some church ceremony which they don't even believe in. Till then we are >>at his mercy, or have to spend a lot of money to hire a professional >>there to do the work. The LDS Library had been my life line and they >>are in the process of putting histories, books, genealogies and amazing >>items in the huge vaults in Cottonwood Canyon that have not had the >>ability to do before now. Copies of some of the books that will be on >>line were burnt when Hitler burnt the books. The librarians have always >>been very helpful and never, ever preachy. Let them believe as they do. >>Because of those beliefs, they will be freely sharing with us, on line, >>in the next years, incredible amounts of new information from around the >>world. That to me is a win, win situation.!. >> >> >> >>Candace Punch. >> >> >>------------------------------- >>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 > > > > Judy: I notice you have FOX in your background, I'm researching Fox and am at a standstill with Maurice Fox married Julia O'Sullivan 1871.Ragheena RC church, Broadford Newcastle Limerick. His father is John Fox, then my research dies. Bonnie