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From: "Arlene Colthirst" <>
Subject: Re: Family Heritage Centres - an alternative approach
Date: Tue, 3 Aug 1999 23:10:13 -0400


Well, if that is so, Denis, then do something about it.
Email the Bishops, Archbishops, they are afterall just men like us.
Regards.
Denis Grant wrote in message <016001bede1f$85c84680$>...
>Arlene,
>You're quoting R Warnock.
>Anyway, you've only got me going with the 'closed to the public' deal.
>Closed to the public- translate: waiting for the highest bidder to come
>along.
>Denis
>----- Original Message -----
>From: Arlene Colthirst <>
>To: <>
>Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 1999 4:04 PM
>Subject: Re: Family Heritage Centres - an alternative approach
>
>
>> Denis, you are correct, of course, when it comes to Civil records
>> but what about Church records - Professional Irish genealologists are not
>> too pleased about the fact that the Bishops of Limerick, Kerry
>> and Archdiocese of Cashel & Emly have arbitrarily 'closed' to public
>> scrutiny their sacramental records, when the Centres for those areas were
>> established.
>>
>> Another point aside to this is: not everyone wants a computer print-out.
>> Original record copies are, I think you might agree, preferable,but more
>> expensive to get from the Centres, but at leat one is assured of accuracy
>in
>> the information.
>> wrote in message ..
>>
>> >R Warnock () wrote:
>> >
>> >: If the Irish Parliament spent its money on microfilming and
>> >: distributing it to local libraries it would escape the adverse
>> >: comments that pervade Irish research at present. The ball would be in
>> >: the researchers court and if you don't find a record then it either
>> >: doesn't exist or you haven't looked properly.
>> >
>> >You've missed the whole reason for existence of the Heritage Centre
>> >system. What you are proposing is already available in Dublin, and
>> >possibly from LDS Family History Libraries. The point of setting up the
>> >heritage centres was to provide a computer database to index the
records.
>> >Of course, if you already know the name, date of birth, and parish, then
>> >there is no value in this. You can look up the microfilm at the
National
>> >Library, crank the reel 'til you get to the right page (assuming that
>> >year's book didn't get "burned in the fire" or otherwise lost) and
>> >transcribe the data you want.
>> >
>> >If on the other hand, you only have a vague idea of which parish, or the
>> >exact dates, then a computer database is of enormous value.
>> >Allegations about the quality of the data, and variety of pricing
>> >structures aside, this is very different from simply having microfilm at
>a
>> >local Library. If you are at the locality anyway, why not try and see
>the
>> >original books themselves? It's worked for me, but I've also taken
>> >advantage of the data at a heritage centre as well and benefitted from
>> >both.
>> >
>> >-dja
>> >
>>
>>
>

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