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PeterY
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Re: Tipperary Family History Society
« Reply #15 on: Thursday 11 September 08 13:03 UTC (UK) »
Hi Smiley

Has anyone got any information about the Quirk family of Tipperary. Undecided

I have been told that my wife's GGrandfather is a James Quirk

who was born around 1863

and he came from Tipperary

and Married a Margaret Unknown. Huh

They had a Daughter  Annie,

but we are not sure if Annie was born there or Cardiff. 

She married and Alfred Stark from Cardiff.

Any bells ringing???

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Re: Tipperary Family History Society
« Reply #16 on: Saturday 11 April 09 08:56 UTC (UK) »
There is a veritable alphabet soup of organisations and web sites

The "nice people" quoted in this thread are now on the  IGP™ County Tipperary Genealogy Project

The "people who charge" are Tipperary North Genealogy Centre at Nenagh

And for South Tipperary the same thing at Bru Bory Cultural Centre in Cashel

Both the last two are "part of the Irish Genealogical Online Record Search System (ORS), an all Ireland initiative organised by the Irish Family History Foundation IFHF."  I have never really plumbed how they work, but they certainly know how to charge. They are particularly unhelpful unless you hand over large amounts of cash in advance. I went into the Nenagh one and they would not let me look at books on their shelves!

They do have a sort of "lucky dip" online data base that cost 5€ a pop to get specific information. But even with that you have to be careful as their records are not complete and have been transcribed onto cards, rather than allowing you to see the original photo of the parish register (as for example you can do with Scottish records)

The IFHF really should look at ScotlandsPeople to see how records can be presented efficiently and at a reasonable cost.
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Re: Tipperary Family History Society
« Reply #17 on: Saturday 11 April 09 17:44 UTC (UK) »
"They do have a sort of "lucky dip" online data base that cost 5€ a pop to get specific information"

And a further £150 (or euro equivalent) for a detailed search (Thats what I was Quoted!)
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Re: Tipperary Family History Society
« Reply #18 on: Saturday 11 April 09 17:57 UTC (UK) »
Yes, in my opinion the costs are a rip off. They do not appear to understand that genealogy is doing extensive "trawling" of records yourself to eliminate and/or confirm where your own ancestors came from.

These days most of us just know that our ancestors came from "Tipperary" or if they are lucky a town like "Thurles" but it could be one of a dozen parishes round there.

You don't get value for money either with your €150. I was emailing someone this week who had a marriage date of 1834 given in their €150 worth, but it did not exist on the Heritage Centre's data base. When confronted the Heritage Centre just said it was a "typo" in the report, without an apology.

Either the churches o the state ought to exanine what these "Heritage Centres" are up too, and do something to substantially improve it!

I would be interested to hear from anyone who had paid €150 and been happy, as well as those who had paid it and been unhappy
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Re: Tipperary Family History Society
« Reply #19 on: Saturday 25 April 09 16:03 UTC (UK) »
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