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Leitrim / Re: Links: Leitrim Family History Society
« on: Thursday 20 October 05 21:01 BST (UK)  »
I'm sorry - what exactly are you asking?  We were commenting on the VERY high cost of having Leitrim family history done if you didn't happen to be based in Ireland. There is NOT the possibility - as there is in Scotland - of doing your own online research from anywhere in the world.

The choices are : travel to Ireland, paying your fare and your hotel bills and grappling with unfamiliar processes in Dublin or Belfast
OR
commission your research from so-called "official" bodies who charge you an arm and a leg.

There is a third possibility of finding an Irish family history researcher - but these people are - in my experience - either very unreliable or very expensive.

There is a very real sense that most of these "local" county research outfits were set up to create employment for Irish people.  They rely to a large extent on Irish-Americans willing to pay large sums of money .

I don't think that even if you turned up in Leitrim ready and willing to do your own research that you would be given unrestricted access to the records - as you would in Edinburgh or Glasgow.

If you know differrently, I would be very happy to stand corrected on this issue.

Rosemary

P.S. Is your red wine really nice? I'm drinking a lovely Australian white...

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Scotland / It pays to complain .....
« on: Sunday 31 July 05 12:14 BST (UK)  »
What ibi is too modest to say is that he is such an expert in family history that he is giving a lecture this November in Glasgow to members and friends of the Glasgow and West of Scotland Family History Society.  I think it will be a memorable occasion - somebody I know is coming all the way from the Antipodes - well, she's going to be over here anyway, but wouldn't miss hearing his lecture for anything!

Rosemary

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Technical Help / Re: scotlandspeople via Mac computer
« on: Saturday 23 July 05 19:23 BST (UK)  »
P.S. Am submitting this on a pink iMac after comprehensively trashing my titanium laptop - but at least I now have system X point something  ( You can tell I'm one of the technologically gifted......) Why on earth have they started calling their systems after animals - is the latest one Panther or did I just imagine that? Is poor old Jobs going through a life crisis? Or is it aimed at people like me who can't remember numbers? I think we should be told.  I alteranate between Safari (so farry so good..) and Firefox, which I find kind of alarming.

R

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Technical Help / Re: scotlandspeople via Mac computer
« on: Saturday 23 July 05 19:13 BST (UK)  »
 Tackling Scotland's People (why aren't they even literate enough to use an apostrophe?) about problems with Macs would bring tears to a glass eye.......
One day, when I am even older and greyer than at present, I shall publish my email correspondence with them.  Only when I mentioned  my friend the MSP for Central Scotland - and the large amount of funding SP must be getting from Scottish tax-payers - did something happen.  I still have "dead" or "empty" images migrated over from their last incarnation, but I've sort of lost the will to tackle people who don't really "get it" about Macs - "You mean, you don't have a PC?" usually comes in their third email .

A very weary Rosemary

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Scotland / Too tight a frame
« on: Sunday 17 July 05 19:02 BST (UK)  »
This has indeed been the curse of Scottish Family History studies.  The 1881 census has been ruined - and not so far reinstated - by a tight-fisted eejit who insisted on ratcheting back half a frame to save on film, and in so doing kept us from what should have been the complete 1881 census experience.

This eejit is still alive and lurking round Scottish Family History sites.

Rosemary


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West Lothian (Linlithgowshire) / Re: Mcguires from Linlithgow
« on: Tuesday 14 June 05 16:10 BST (UK)  »
Mike,

One of my O'Brien ancestors was married to a Christie(Christy)and her mother was a McGuire.  The whole lot of them seemed to be from County Leitrim - in fact, there were so many of them that I doubt if anybody was left in Leitrim in the 1850s.....
They all came over and set about marrying each other in the 1850s and 60s - I hadn't thought to look for McGuires in West Lothian.

Rosemary

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Leitrim / Charges of Leitrim Family History Society
« on: Tuesday 14 June 05 13:58 BST (UK)  »
 "When our research proves successful a typical figure for total fees is €350.00 to €395.00." - Leitrim Genealogy Centre.

Does anybody else think that what the average Irish Genealogy centre charges is DISGRACEFUL?
Why isn't it posssible in Ireland to pay a reasonable hourly rate and access all this information on computer personally?
I only have personal experience of the Donegal equivalent - which did NOT impress me.  I was charged 17 euros just to talk to an "expert" who then confirmed the information that I had just handed her...
Is this all part of a huge Irish job creation scheme to keep graduates off the streets?

Rosemary

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Ireland / Re: Padraig
« on: Tuesday 14 June 05 13:24 BST (UK)  »
I can find no trace in any of the literature that Padraig was ever married or had children.  His mother and sister carried on his Irish school after his death, and his brother was executed the day after him.
Of course, there may have been illegitimate children...

Rosemary

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