Raymond and All, Avery good suggestion. There are those of us who are unlikely to get to Ireland and perhaps, if the List permits, a listing of useful sites and a description of what they hold could be placed on the list so that we can follow them up. Cheers Peter In a "WARM" 41C Melbourne Message: 1 Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2008 17:28:36 -0000 From: "the_researcher" <the_researcher@raymondscountydownwebsite.com> Subject: [NIR-DOWN] Ancestor research, County Down To: <nir-down@rootsweb.com> Message-ID: <000a01c84e2e$1282e710$4001a8c0@your5ayqxxxsvu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Over the years whilst visiting kilkeel, and other libraries in County Down, i have met people from abroad on holiday who were trying to get some information on their ancestors who came from that particular area,although the library staff are not trained to help with genealogy, some of them give a bit of advice and are quite helpful, So i decided to explain this to the Library Headquarter bosses and put a few suggestions to them, starting with Kilkeel library, by luck the lady in Armagh headquarters who is in charge, is a Sloan from Greencastle, a good stroke of luck, my suggestion to her was,as there is computers in all the libraries for the public to use, if a notice board was put up giving the website addresses that deal with that area, and some of the contents of the websites, mebbe something else that someone on the list can suggest for a visitor from abroad who is researching ancestors, so good people any ideas , as i would like this notice board put in most libraries, the good lady in charge thinks its a good idea so any suggestions please let me know, Raymond in a cold and snowy Scotland