Someone on this list forwarded my mail to this list to Mr. Mick Merrigan of the Genealogical Society of Ireland. (ex Dun Laoghaire Society). Below is my response to Mr. Merrigans mail to me - with some deletions. I would like to say that I am going to do what I have said I would do to Mr. Merrigan. That is after all one of my intentions with the From Ireland web site - to tell people around the world about the various organisations in Ireland which publish Ggenealogical data. I had not intended putting the constitutions of the societies on the web site, but I will now put the constitutions of those which date pre 1900. There is more than one society which has been publishing genealogical data for over 100 years. The Clogher Record has been published since the 1920's I think, if not earlier - what I say here and what I said last night, stands. What has been known as the Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries in Ireland was the Journal of the Waterford and South East of Ireland Archaeological and Historical Society and Journal of the Ossory Archaeological and Historical Society and the Journal of the Kilkenny and South East of Ireland Archaeological and Historical Society - the last three are a bit mixed up because I don't know the dates for one ending and one beginning - *but* the original journal published by the original society which divided up and became all those others was first published c. 1850 There are others as well - Cork, Galway to name two. Just because a Society has the word Genealogical does not exclude the others which have Archaeology and Historical as genealogical societies, Jane ----------------------------------- Dear Mr. Merrigan, I'm not going to get into an argument with you. My title is Dr. I live in Ireland. I did not say that all genealogical organisations are members of CIGO. I did state that the organisation which currently calls itself The Genealogical Society of Ireland used to be the Dunlaoghaire Genealogical Society and that Dunlaoighre is a suburb of Dublin - correct? I did say that there are other genealogical socieites in Ireland which have been around for over 150 years...... they may not call themselves 'Genealogical' societies - but their constitutions indicate that they are by using words which I am sure are in your own constitution such as 'family history.' I shall copy these out for you and put them on my web site to clarify any misunderstanding as to the position and naming of Irish Societies. I will give the exact dates as to when each was formed and the articles published in the first five issues, I will give the number of pages for each article. I am sure that within that five year period there will be at least 30 articles which will have been published in many of them (as in some instances they broke articles up and divided them between a few issues) which will be genealogical - with names only - in nature and which will compare to all the books published by the Genealogical Society of Ireland. I am sure that for each Journal, they will have covered as many counties as the Genealogical Society of Ireland. Once I have done that and we see whether or not I am wrong and you are right, then you will have a right to attack me for saying that the Genealogical Society of Ireland is a name which can mislead people. Yours, Dr. Jane Lyons