Emigrants letters

Garlinge

I heard a news item recently about a person donating a large collection of emigrants correspondence to Galway University ( I think). They are to be copied and digatilised. A nice resource for future researchers and a place that people might like to contribute to. A family can keep the original and a copy is donated.

Hermy

There's a piece about it on the IGRS Facebook page.

https://www.facebook.com/IrishGenealogicalResearchSociety/posts/4404106396271585

pinkypinky

This going to be great for scholarship.

There's already a collection online at http://www.dippam.ac.uk/ied/ as well which are very interesting.

One thing I'm sorry about though is that we won't see the original. We all know the potential for transcription errors!

Garlinge

I would hope the originals would be scanned and not just transcribed? There is also a project in UK to gather personal diaries. Donors can stipulate level of access. ( The Great Diary Project. Bishopsgate Institute)

Waitsian

Just out of interest does anyone have any in their own family history collection? We do, several, dating from the 1860s, from an Armagh man who ended up in Ohio. He even mentions the (civil) war! He also talks about ploughing.

pinkypinky

Garlinge wrote: »

I would hope the originals would be scanned and not just transcribed? There is also a project in UK to gather personal diaries. Donors can stipulate level of access. ( The Great Diary Project. Bishopsgate Institute)

My reading was that Kirby Miller borrowed and transcribed the originals many years ago and returned them to their owners and has now donated his work to NUI.