I posted this notice on GENIRE but forgot to post it here also. Everything you ever wanted to know about old Ireland ! I found that http://books.google.com/ has John O'Hart's "Irish Pedigrees". vols I and II. From the webpages below, you can read the books online, download it in PDF format, or view it in plain text, which allows you to cut and paste portions of text. You can do word searches from the website. If you download the books, you will not be able to search for words as the pages are images of the original book pages and not in text format. Only the Google website has that feature. Google must have made the PDF files of the two vols. on their website from text versions of the pages. They must have used (OCR) Character Recognition scanning of every page of the book. A monumental undertaking. You can tell by noticing all the misspellings and format changes from the original pages. If you have broadband speed it will take about 7 mins with a download speed of around 100kb/sec. to download a volume. Dialup speed would take hours. ====================================================================== VOL I. 44.6 mb size. http://books.google.com/books?id=2icbAAAAYAAJ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- VOL II 44.7 MB size. http://books.google.com/books?id=qFRmAAAAMAAJ ======================================================================