Good evening Syl: In order to promote "the lets get up and go" on this little item of some 180++ Journals and the effort of others who have used the Journals as a guide to their own area of special interest, including Galway and Cork and Wicklow, including the efforts of the Cantwells, both father and son, [and J S Clarke for that matter] these Journals represent the last great frontier of Irish genealogy written in some form of stone, marble and concrete. Being illegible to the human eye is the last excuse one would tolerate in this day of electro photo enhancement and digital enhancement. Even older stones that have been retrieved from blow ground. A great many stones have had their etchings successfully retrieved over the years. If we can do it in Egypt, and the great standing stones of the Vikings then a few stones a couple of hundred years old is "a piece of cake". So we'll hear no more of this nonsense from others especially in regards to stones cut since the 1800's Having said that, and knowing that Eneclann is working on the data base with Trinity Archives [probably one of the few complete Journal sets] is all we need to know. Searching via cemeteries is a total waste of time in this day and age. Eneclann [one clan] has assured our Foundation that once completed that is will be searchable by surname and will take another year of so. My recommendation is to cheer Eneclann on, to diarize the process every other month and ask them to finish the job, not only for ourselves, but for those genealogical enthusiast to come after us. Eric In regards to other grave yards here in Canada, the Japanese grave yards where removed especially in BC and transfered to a central location and the stones preserved in memorial walls during the War and for very good reason. The same held true of a couple of German cemeteries in Ontario, especially any military cemeteries. Most of the German war graves were moved to Kitchener Ontario which used to be called Berlin. National stupidity has a very large price to be paid, including any country that alligned themselves with the German cause in both Wars.