Thank you Ed. However, when you hit the www.rootsireland.ie why is it that it refers directly to IFHF website? Up comes another logo, and then immediately it is transferred to the IFHF site. jjc ----- Original Message ----- From: "E Macklin" <emacklin@rogers.com> To: <nir-tyrone@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, September 28, 2008 11:48 AM Subject: [NIR-TYRONE] Roots Web Conference On-Line > Good morning list: > > For those of you who can pull this up, there is a series of interesting > interviews from the Roots Web Conference last month. > Included in the list of interviews is one with Feargal O'Donnell of the > Irish Family History Foundation on Roots Television and > with Dick Eastman who conducted all of the nine interviews. > I hope you find this series of interviews helpful and as a guide to > future research in Ireland. Most of now will drop the IFHF > connect and replace it with the now ubiquitous site of www.rootsireland.ie > site. This site is now supported by ALL of the church > bodies in Ireland including the Anglican Bishop of Armagh and the Catholic > Bishop of Armagh at their respective St Patrick's > Cathedral. Finally those originally in charge way back when are now fully > supportive of this venture. And its 'bi-partisan" in its > focus. Feragal O'Donnell is the Manager of the Roots Web center in Armagh. > The one thing to remember here is that ALL church records will be > placed > on their site with no exception. As a result there will > be records here that are not available at LDS and there will be records > that > are currently held in "local custody" that will now be > made available to the public. And of course this is a fee based operation. > I would recommend that those of you who are interested that you view > this interviews for as long as they are available and take > notes. The oldest records [ of which there are a few] date from the > 1590's. > Maybe it will give a bit of background for those who > are new to the topic. In a few years RootsIreland.ie will have over 40 > million records. This will be an added benefit as 40% of the Anglican > records for Armagh were lost and 38% of the Anglican records forTyrone > were lost. > Enjoy and good luck. At the moment I am currently landing in Munich for > Oktoberfest and this comes to you from my laptop > and my plug-in in front of me with Lufthansa. Just lovin this new > technology. So get yourself a coffe then click on the link below and > enjoy. > > http://rootstelevision.com/players/player_conferences.php?bctid=1792947734 > > Eric > As in all genealogical endeavours, > The further back you look, > The further back you see, > The longer you work for something, > The longer you wait for something. > > > Please post messages in plain text only > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > NIR-TYRONE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message