--part1_8b.8b9a302c.25aba631_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit --part1_8b.8b9a302c.25aba631_boundary Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Disposition: inline Return-path: Spiritgrny@aol.com From: Spiritgrny@aol.com Full-name: Spiritgrny Message-ID: <8c.8c2ef1c4.25a8f9a1@aol.com> Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2000 15:35:45 EST Subject: IRISH General Register Office To: tiaki@prodigy.net, grvtrain@twrol.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Windows AOL sub 45 smyrl@iol.ie writes: If you are interested in Irish ancestry then you will be interested in the Council of Irish Genealogical Organisation's (CIGO) petition. Researchers of ancestry in Ireland have long been frustrated by the service at Dublin's General Register Office (GRO) and the out-dated mode of access to its records of birth, death and marriage which date from 1845. CIGO is compiling a petition to lay before the Minister of Health, the Irish government department under which the GRO comes, to request that microfilm copies of the registers and indexes to 1900 should be made available free of charge at the National Library of Ireland. --part1_8b.8b9a302c.25aba631_boundary--