Hi Linde, These are fabulous books! If I could figure out a way to bring them home with me without it costing the same in books, I would do it. My ancestors are in this book and it's a fascinating read. If anyone is in Dublin I think Eason's carries the volumes or most of them. Well done! And thank you! Ginger Ginger Aarons, CTC, Director Time Travel (Tours) LLC P.O. Box 4427 Wilsonville, OR 97070 503-454-0897 tollfree and fax 877-787-7807 cell 503-421-0029 _www.timetraveltours.com_ (http://www.timetraveltours.com/) MEMBERS OF : ASTA, ICTA, CLIA, ROTARY, GWA Region VI Director - Garden Writer's Association PR Chair - Sherwood Rotary Club In a message dated 1/3/2012 1:33:26 A.M. Pacific Standard Time, jglunney@eircom.net writes: Hello Dave thanks for your kind remarks! Yes, it is a most important project for everyone interested in Ireland. I have been working on it since 1982! So I am pleased to tell you that we published over 9,000 lives in nine handsome volumes in late 2009, and we also have an online version which allows searching and eventual corrections if needed. The bad news is that the online version allows limited free access, but is intended as a subscription service only. University libraries worldwide and perhaps some larger public libraries will have subscriptions and should also very often have the hard copy volumes. Of course the hard copy version is still available to buy! and information about that is available on the site as well. I don't know if individuals in South Africa can subscribe to the online version; as far as I know that possibility has not been negotiated for all worldwide individual customers Here is the website address http://dib.cambridge.org/ It will allow you to see the list of names of people that we have researched and written up. It is of course an all-Ireland list; (for instance 239 people associated with co. Antrim). The online site allows you to use the advanced search so you can for instance find the names of architects in DIB. The full text search is also available (49 uses of the word "Scotch", 11 of "Scotch-Irish"). I have written mainly people from the north of Ireland, and also some of the 18th and 19th century emigrants. If you see someone about whom you know a lot, don't hesitate to write to the project to offer extra information. We can add extra material and will in due course add extra names from history who missed out on entries in the first edition. At the moment we are working on people who have died and thus become eligible for inclusion, since our original cut-off date, which was 2003. Hope you find someone of interest in DIB. Best wishes Linde ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to SCOTCH-IRISH-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Thanks Ginger! which ancestors? Linde