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    From the WDYTYA Magazine site:

    Morpeth Roll to shed light on Irish kin

    Dating back to 1841 and featuring the signatures of more than 275,000 people, an historic Irish document will soon be available to view online

    For nearly 170 years, the Morpeth Roll sat inside a box in Castle Howard, Yorkshire. Comprised of 652 individual sheets, it was signed by more than 275,000 people across Ireland as a farewell gesture to Lord Morpeth, the departing Chief Secretary for Ireland.

    But following its recent rediscovery, the Roll will be made available to the general public as part of a collaboration between the National University of Ireland at Maynooth (NUI Maynooth), Castle Howard, Ancestry.com and the Office of Public Works. Those behind the project will attempt to trace the signatories of the Roll – which was created in 1841 – by encouraging genealogists to get involved.

    The Morpeth Roll will be launched at NUI Maynooth in March 2013 and will visit several towns acoss the country, where locals will be encouraged to discover if any of their forebears added their names to the list.

    After stopping off at Farmleigh, Derrynane, Kilkenny, Clonmel and Belfast, the Roll will return to the university where it will remain on public view. Ancestry.com is also working to digitise and transcribe the document in its entirety, after which it will be made available to search online.
    “The Morpeth Roll has significant research potential, whether examined as a pre-Famine census substitute, a genealogy resource, a family heirloom or a politically motivated document,” says Dr Terry Dooley from NUI Maynooth’s Department of History.

    “Our campaign will unlock the stories of the signatories and what happened to them through, and after, the Famine.”

    Learn more about The Morpeth Roll campaign at the NUI Maynooth website http://communications.nuim.ie/201112.shtml

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    thanks for that looks interesting

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