Because of your prompting, I took a look and noticed right away that they have a bargain price on their homepage. It says until April 1, but it is still there so worth checking to see if the 20% discount is still good. I signed up a couple of weeks ago and found a ton of great stuff, including an article on my parents' wedding and a picture I had never seen before. The Irish News link (on my computer at least) is lower on the page so it is easy to miss unless you scroll down. Could you give us some tips on what has worked for you in narrowing down your search of the Irish American Weekly as the search engine only offers first and last name boxes and let me tell you, it is hard to work with names like Michael Higgins and Patrick Moloney. Thanks, Ann In a message dated 4/13/2012 3:54:54 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, irl-limerick-request@rootsweb.com writes: Judie, I have a subscription to genealogybank.com which is all USA newspapers; fortunately though the database includes quite a few newspapers whose main focus was on Ireland, such as: Irish American Weekly 8/12/1849 ? 7/4/1914 Irish Citizen 10/19/1867 ? 10/10/1868 Irish Nation 11/26/1881 ? 10/6/1883 Irish Voice 2/15/2006 ? Current Irish World 1/11/1890 ? 4/8/1905 They (the Irish American Weekly in particular), are chock full of Irish obits, marriages, and current political events of the day as they happened in ALL parts of Ireland and I've found it to be a wonderful source of information. In fact, would venture to say that I've found more funeral notices and obits that took place in Ireland in these US papers than I've ever found in the Irish newspapers themselves. Anyone who wishes me to look for a funeral / obituary or marriage notice for their Irish ancestors please feel free to email me directly and give me the particulars and I'll see what I can dig up for you. Happy Hunting! Kathy Researching LUBY and SHANAHAN in Co Limerick Co Tipperary Co Waterford Co Cork

Ann, I use a lot of the advanced techniques for searching (Boolean searching, wild cards, etc). Go here for an explanation of how to do these: http://www.genealogybank.com/gbnk/information/help/advanced_techniques.html The wild card might help you a bit as the E in Moloney is often dropped? In other words if you search for Molon* you'll get Molony as well as Moloney back. Hope this helps! Happy Hunting! Kathy Rhodes PS If any of you on this list are digging through newspapers for obits think about contributing these records to the Ireland Genealogy Projects Archives. It's easy to do with the online Record Submission Forms at http://www.genrecords.org/irfiles/obituary.html and that helps all of us as it gets them out there on the web in a SEARCHABLE format. ----- Original Message ----- From: AnnL7777@aol.com Subject: [IRL-LIMERICK] GenealogyBank.com Because of your prompting, I took a look and noticed right away that they have a bargain price on their homepage. It says until April 1, but it is still there so worth checking to see if the 20% discount is still good. I signed up a couple of weeks ago and found a ton of great stuff, including an article on my parents' wedding and a picture I had never seen before. The Irish News link (on my computer at least) is lower on the page so it is easy to miss unless you scroll down. Could you give us some tips on what has worked for you in narrowing down your search of the Irish American Weekly as the search engine only offers first and last name boxes and let me tell you, it is hard to work with names like Michael Higgins and Patrick Moloney. Thanks, Ann