Re: Are there any super sluth's out there/?
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Re: Are there any super sluth's out there/?
Pat Zell 4/12/03
Hi Pat, I quite agree, many of the parish records were never copied.You know of course of the latest scam in Ireland.A group was formed throughout the coubntry with the intention of making family research easier for everyone.This was hi-jacked by professional researchers who went around indexing parish registers.What happened in many cases then was that the priests only received back copies of the indexes while the origonal registers were withheld.I have been there and seen the problem as told to me by people on the spot.Of course the whole idea is to extract money before folk can see the origonal entries or perhaps only a copy, as they will not deal with you in person, only by mail.This is a huge twisting of the origonal aim of the group. Kevin.