Milli, Open yourself an Irish Cheque account with the Bank of Ireland. You can do Punts or Euros. Then you only pay a fee for whenever you top it up and the cheques only cost 22p. Regards, Peter Pidgeon Leafy Eltham, Victoria, Australia Please visit our web site at www.users.bigpond.com/peter_pidgeon/ Research Names: http://carmen.murdoch.edu.au/community/dps/research/pid01.html ----- Original Message ----- From: <Westmilli@aol.com> To: <WEXFORD-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, March 10, 2000 5:22 AM Subject: [WEX] Irish Pound Draft Fee > FYI: The fee for exchanging US dollars into pound drafts has gone up from > $3.00 to $15.00 this year at Ruesch International! I found this out today. > Since that;s the only way to send for B/M/D certificates at the General > Registry Office in Dublin It's going to be very costly. My husband seems to > think that they would take Dollars if you knew the current exchange rate, but > I've been told that this was the way to go, and I've done it for a few years. > Anybody know any different? Milli > > ______________________________