Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 12 December 2013
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht
Capturing Full Value of Genealogical Heritage: Discussion (Resumed)
4:45 pm
Mr. John Slyne:
We frequently have visitors to our offices in Sir John Rogerson's Quay. Our taxi driver today had dropped off somebody who had ancestors from Cavan who were looking for people. As we entered, the security guard was also asking us questions about Irish records, so there is a huge opportunity here. I lived in the US and almost everyone I met claimed to be Irish.
Many of our people here in Dublin are talking to customers daily. Many of them are asking for more and more Irish records and are wondering why we cannot get them all. It is definitely a major opportunity for us. We are only in Ireland two years but in our experience, everybody is looking for resources to get the material online. We have multiple examples of how that has been done in other jurisdictions, and I will ask Mr. Argent to give examples of those.
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