>From another mailing list: As a free alternative or supplement to commissioning an expensive full study to find records of our Irish Ancestors, I have acccumulated Irish Church Records from my own research and from the research of many other generous donors who have also contributed their records. I have formatted and batched together and donated these records, over a couple of years to Rootsweb, which provides free database server space to me and free access to you, so that the information taken from these records, including many which have never before been published by the LDS or anyone, can be accessed for free. The latest update, which occurred just last week, was an additonal new batch of about 3,400 records. The total number of Baptisms and and Chruch records of Marriages has now reached 9,511 which now puts the goal of 10,000 records by the end of this year well within reach. The latest batch includes many from County Galway and several generous Galway list members. Since the index lately does not show counties, you have to look at the full record to see the county. There are lots of Galway records among them, even though the indexed ones are the original Tipperary and Limerick records. Please take a look at this database; search all your surnames, and please spread the word about this free access to a database of nearly 10,000 Irish Church Records to other County lists you subscribe to. The site address is: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~irishchurchrecords/index.html ROOTSWEB'S IRISH CHURCH RECORDS DATABASE They also may be accessed from other Rootsweb search sites, but I built this one, which shows only the Irish Records and does not co-mingle them with English or other United Kingdom records as Rootsweb sites do. If you have any baptismal or marriage church records and you would like to join in this effort to provide FREE access to thousands of Irish Church Records, please note the link at the bottom of that page, on "How to donate to this Database." It's all about people sharing and helping each other. Enjoy, Tony Riordan triordan@msn.com ___________________________________________________________________ To get your own FREE ZDNet Onebox - FREE voicemail, email, and fax, all in one place - sign up today at http://www.zdnetonebox.com