Online Database of Limerick Graveyard to Go Live An online, searchable database of more than 70,000 people buried in Mount St. Laurence in Limerick, Ireland, is to be launched on August 20. Staff from the Limerick City Archives, in conjunction with the history department at Mary Immaculate College, have spent the past two years manually transcribing thousands of handwritten records of those buried between 1855 and 2008 and have created a database. The records include the name, age, address and in many cases, the cause of death of those buried in the 164-year-old cemetery. Mount St Laurence graveyard has been the primary place of burial in Limerick City for all strata of society since its opening. It was opened after burial ground elsewhere in the city was placed under pressure following cholera epidemics in the 1830s, followed by the Great Famine of the following decade. You can read more in an article by Nick Rabbitts in the Limerick Leader web site at http://goo.gl/mngHJo. Thanks to Nick Rabbitts for this information -- Jeannie God Bless God Speed kymonroe@rootsweb.com ancestraltrackers.org