I would really appreciate it if anyone who is familiar with the procedure involved in obtaining copies of books or pages from journals through interlibrary loan in the States, Canada, Australia or anywhere else in the world would please tell me how it is done in other places. There are too many people asking me how they can obtain copies of the sources I am listing on the From Ireland web site http://www.from-ireland.net I've been attached to one University or another, and for me it is a simple case of going in and asking for a form, which I fill out with the details and then my university makes a request of other libraries with which they have an inter-library loan agreement and I get a copy of the paper at whatever cost per page if it is available - or I just walk in to the National Library and fill out a similar form and pay them £1 per page. Because it's something I've done so regulary and so simply I tend to think that it will be just as simple for others around the world. I tend not to think in terms of ordinary libraries. I'd like to put a note at the top of each of my surname pages telling people how to do this if it's different in other parts of the world. When I do a search on the LDS Family Library catalogue I get the below result for Irish Periodicals. Some I recognise, some I don't. I was looking for 'The Irish Ancestor' and 'The Irish Genealogist'. I know that some of what is listed below refers to on-line newsletter or societies which are on-line, but for the most part I've never heard of the rest!! I'm thinking that maybe the Irish Genealogical Research Society newsletter referred to here is what I know as 'The Irish Genealogist' which is a journal published by the Irish Genealogical Research Society in London. There is an Irish branch in Dublin, but then, I've never heard that the Irish branch actually publishes a newsletter. It is things like this which I have mentioned in the past, something being called one thing here in Ireland and another name by the Latter day Saints which can cause real confusion when two people are talking about something and know it by those different names. In order for me to be able to direct people to a source, I need to know the other name and as I don't use the LDS libraries, I can only make matters worse if I don't find out these differences. I also have read that not all of what the LDS libraries is on the on-line catalogue and what I would like to know is if they have copies of any of our Journals, such as Breifne, Clogher Record, Seanchas Ardmhaca, any of the Archaeological and Historical Journals - such as Louth, Galway, Cork, Kilkenny, Kerry, Waterford to name but a few. Plus the good old Irish Genealogist and the Irish Ancestor. They do seem to have Annelecta Hibernica........... ------------------------------------------------------------ The All-Ireland heritage : a journal of genealogical and historical research Analecta Hibernica : including the reports of the Irish Manuscripts Commission Irish Manuscripts Commission The Celtic knot : a journal of Irish family history research Directory of Irish family history research Ulster Genealogical and Historical Guild Familia : Ulster genealogical review Ulster Genealogical and Historical Guild Family links, past and present : magazine of the Irish Genealogical Association Irish Genealogical Association (Belfast) Gaelic gleanings Inside Ireland The Irish ancestor Ffolliott, Rosemary Irish ancestors matters Irish Genealogical Project The Irish at home and abroad : a newsletter of Irish genealogy and heritage Irish family history : Irish genealogical newsletter Irish Family History Society (Newton, Massachusetts) Irish family links Irish Genealogical Association (Belfast) Irish genealogical helper Irish Genealogical Research Society (Ireland Branch) newsletter Irish Genealogical Research Society (Ireland Branch) Irish Genealogical Research Society newsletter Irish Genealogical Research Society Irish genealogy digest Champ, Minnie Irish heritage links Irish Heritage Association Irish queries Penna-Oakes, Shirley Elizabeth, 1951- Irish roots Numbers 1-20 of 31 titles related to this topic [View next set of matching titles] ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- There is nothing else when I click on the next set of matching titles and clicking on The Irish Ancestor only leads me back to the top of the page. Maybe the links were having some hicoughs when I was checking this out!! Thanks, Jane

Short answer is that ILL is easy....some can be ordered online if the local library has an up-to-date website. I know of a man who writes for the Clogher Record that orders all his resources via ILL including microfilm. The Allen County Public Library in Indiana ( www.acpl.lib.in.us/ )is a good resource, as is the Newberry Library ( www.acpl.lib.in.us/ )in Chicago.Boston College Burns Library has lots of Irish resources ( http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/cas/irish/burns.html ) and courses in Irish Studies ( http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/cas/irish/ ). The last ILL request I filled out had a space for what is the most you will pay - if there is a fee. I have not run into a fee based order as yet. Holdings at the LDS Libray, not on fiche or film, do not circulate to my knowledge. I cannot readily answer the query onjournals and periodicals. Believe that the above URL's might help here also. There is a Canadian genealogical website - does not come to mind readily ...Global? - that has regular contributions on genealogy from an Allen County Library staff member. HTH, Ann