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That is great news especially since NARA documents are so expensive. Also note that Ancestry.com has free access to military records (indexes mostly) until 31 May in honor of Memorial Day Lois Donna K. Vaughn wrote: >http://www.examiner.com/a-1401746~Ancestry_com_partners_with_National_Archives.html >===NY-IRISH-GENSOC Mailing List=== >Did you pay your 2008 Dues? >Troy Irish Genealogy Society >http://www.rootsweb.com/~nytigs/ >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NY-TROY-IRISH-GENSOC-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > >

Hi Donna, Again - ancestry.com comes to the rescue. Although this is a great service - there are so many who cannot afford ancestry's fees/dues. At the Archives - if the documents were microfilmed - you just had to pay for copies. True, copies of original documents have become costly, so it now becomes a catch 22 situation. Whether to pay dues to ancestry with no hope of knowing if your ancestors records were even in the Archives or not. With the LDS putting their records online and ancestry partnering with National Archives - maybe this truly does become a win win for us family researchers. BTW - to all - the British National Archives will furnish copies of documents for a relatively inexpensive charge - mostly 3.50 British pounds. That beats the cost of an airline trip over the pond. Keep in mind that many records about Irish nationals are in the Brit Archives. There is a search engine and you can just plug in a name. There are many early military and WWI records as well as other genealogical records to be searched. www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ I found and received my wife's 4th great grandfather's military records - which showed that he was born c 1763 in Wick, Scotland. One of the units he served spent ten years in Ireland and three of his children were born in Ireland - we just don't know where. Rich in SC ----- Original Message ----- From: "Donna K. Vaughn" <dkvaughn@nycap.rr.com> To: <ny-troy-irish-gensoc@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, May 24, 2008 7:06 AM Subject: [NY-TROY-IRISH-GENSOC] Ancestry.com to pair with the NationalArchives > http://www.examiner.com/a-1401746~Ancestry_com_partners_with_National_Archives.html > ===NY-IRISH-GENSOC Mailing List=== > Did you pay your 2008 Dues? > Troy Irish Genealogy Society > http://www.rootsweb.com/~nytigs/ > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > NY-TROY-IRISH-GENSOC-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >