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Hi, I'm researching Irish births and deaths and using the images recently put on line by the National Archives of Ireland.
When I find an ancestor on a page I zoom in to read it properly, but if I want to print it, it gives me the whole page - well, two pages actually, you know the ones of a ledger opened and laid out.

-how can I print the part I'm interested in so I can actually read it?
-is there a way of printing without all that black background behind the ledger (using too much ink)?

I'm sure there is an easy fix, I'm just not very good at this kind of thing.
thanks a lot.

My grandfather George Kelly was born in Castleblaney Monaghan October 10th 1864. I have his birth cert and his parents were Patrick Kelly and Elizabeth Duffy.
I want to find out who his siblings were (although I may be on a wild goose chase).  Searching on various sites for births to these parents between 1855 and 1880 I have come up with six possibilities - George October 1864
Mary May 1865 (bit too close?)
Sarah May 1867
Ellen August 1867  (problem here!)
Patrick June 1871
Elizabeth April 1880

In the 1901 census there is a Patrick Kelly and Elizabeth Kelly in Drumore Monaghan living with their two daughters Sarah and Lissy.  The parents state they have had 6 children and they are all still living.

But they can't be the six I found can they, because of clashes in the dates of birth. Is there any point in me going on with this, or something I'm missing?
I would be grateful for comments.
By the way, George left Ireland for England when he was in his twenties. He married and died in England.

Both Ancestry and Family Search give me a death in the Civil Registrations for a Bridget Ballinger April-June 1879 in Mountbellew, Galway, age 64 (vol 4 page 300).
Why does RootsIreland not give me this do you think?  Is it just a matter of spelling?  I've got a one month subscription on there and I've been trying to find it with variations but it doesn't come up. (I'd like to find it there so I can see the details without having to send off to the GRO for a copy.)

And while I'm at it, Roots used to let you do a search using only surnames didn't it? Something like all births/deaths/marriages in a county in a certain period. Now they want a first name every time. Is this what other people remember?

Hi, I've been working my way through the Catholic parish records without a problem. This morning my Webroot security is posting a big black and red page saying the site has been reported as unsafe with risk of phishing and advises me strongly to get off the site.
I must say I've often found Irish sites listed as not completely trustworthy, don't know why. But this is different, it's one of those messages that says continue at your peril.
Is anyone else having trouble with this?