Dear Raymond, Hopefully you are staying warm in "cold and snowy Scotland." Congratulations on your wedding anniversary. You must have had a wonderful celebration! Your suggestion was excellent. I would also add - it they could also post the name of local historians and the local historical society address and contact person. I have been trying to get the name of the sewing school in Rathfriland where my Grandmother learned to sew and make Irish lace.The person I spoke with at the Rathfriland library gave me the name of one person who didn't have any information about the sewing schools. I thought I could check the census in 1901 and see if the school still existed (my Grandmother would have attended probably in the mid to late 1890s but the Rathfriland Library is small and didn't have access to the census. Thankfully the National Archives of Ireland is digitalizing the 1911 Census followed by the 1901 Census. The Dublin 1911 Censu went online in early December and hopefully in January they will put County Down online. The National Archives lists the various counties and in which order they will go online. County Down is third on the list with County Antrim. http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/ National Archives Census page Beannachtai, Margaret (Máiread) ----- Original Message ----- From: "the_researcher" <the_researcher@raymondscountydownwebsite.com> To: <nir-down@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2008 9:28 AM Subject: [NIR-DOWN] Ancestor research, County Down > 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 > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > NIR-DOWN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >