Here's their latest wheeze
22-Mar-2012: The IFHF ORS has been converted to a credit system. All user balanced have been upgraded to the new credit system automatically. Part of this upgrade has been the reduction in the cost of a record from €5 to as low as €2.50 depending on the amount of credit purchased. However, users will be charged 1 credit for a page of index search results. Every users will be given 10 free searches.
Eh, thanks but no thanks
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Re: rootsireland.ie
I hoped that I would be allowed to try out the new pricing scheme but when I tried to log in I was still told:
The account for [e-mail address] has been disabled. Please contact the IFHF for further information.
Re: rootsireland.ie
John Grenham gives his reaction to the recent changes at rootsireland.ie in today's Irish Times:
http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/irishro ... not-again/
http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/irishro ... not-again/
Cratloe and Parteen/Meelick parishes at rootsireland.ie
I've just realised that the rootsireland.ie website does its best to conceal the fact that it contains extracts from the registers of Cratloe and Parteen/Meelick parishes in the south-east of County Clare.
I know that Robert Frost married Bridget McNamara in Cratloe in 1826.
If I search for confirmation of this marriage by entering this information at
http://ifhf.rootsireland.ie/quis.php?ty ... iage&new=1
I cannot tick a box to confine my search to Clare (or Carlow or Kerry).
If I tick the box for Limerick (on the basis that Cratloe is in the Diocese of Limerick), no match is found.
However, if I start my search at
http://limerick.rootsireland.ie/quis.ph ... iage&new=1
I find that there is a match in CRATLOE (RC).
This is perhaps understandable given that Cratloe is entirely in county Clare; however, the same applies to Parteen and Meelick parish, which straddles the county boundary. There is no possible justification for this.
I know that Robert Frost married Bridget McNamara in Cratloe in 1826.
If I search for confirmation of this marriage by entering this information at
http://ifhf.rootsireland.ie/quis.php?ty ... iage&new=1
I cannot tick a box to confine my search to Clare (or Carlow or Kerry).
If I tick the box for Limerick (on the basis that Cratloe is in the Diocese of Limerick), no match is found.
However, if I start my search at
http://limerick.rootsireland.ie/quis.ph ... iage&new=1
I find that there is a match in CRATLOE (RC).
This is perhaps understandable given that Cratloe is entirely in county Clare; however, the same applies to Parteen and Meelick parish, which straddles the county boundary. There is no possible justification for this.