Irish Genealogy Database Generation Behind Schedule

One of the reasons that it has been so difficult to find information on our Irish Lynch and Hopkins ancestors is that birth, death and marriage information prior to 1864 is kept at the parish level. Even if you can narrow down their home to a county, that leaves dozens of parishes.

There is an Irish genealogy project "supposed to result in most church records of births, marriages and deaths being entered on a computer data base". Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter reports that the database, supposed to be completed next year, is "running behind schedule" and won't be completed for another 20-25 years. I could probably go through all the parish records myself in that time.

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Web Site Update: Web Family Cards

To make navigating through Kay Lewis's ancestors even easier, I've used my genealogy program, Reunion, to generate web cards. You can start with Lee and work your way back to his earliest known ancestor.

I've put a handy link in the sidebar, so you can access the webcards page even after this post has been archived.

Give the web cards a try, and let me know if you have any problem viewing or navigating them.

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