The advertisements you see on this web site may be off-putting but they are necessary. The From Ireland web site is privately owned, and everything has to be paid for - web site maintenance, photocopying, travelling to the archives, driving to graveyards etc. The web site is 'Google monetised' this means that Google 'sponsors' the web site through advertsing. The advertisments on this web site have never yet covered the cost of running the site in any month, e.g. for Laois there are 2828 BMD refernences from the civil registers every 200 references have cost about 5 Euro; the names of 12,000+ Heads of Household for the County Laois 1901 census have been transcribed (not all on the web site yet), and 15,865 names from the Griffiths Primary Valuation. Every page of the Griffiths was photocopied in order to transcribe the information, a photocopy card costs 2 Euro in the National Archives in Dublin giving you 8 copies and I have not summed up the number of photocopies. The same with the Tithe Applotment Books.

It took one year to complete transcription of the 1901 census, albeit only 5-10 hours each week, it took three solid months of all day every day to drive around the county transcribing gravestones back in 1998-99, some of the tapes have not yet been typed up. Today, as I drive from place to place with a camera I see that many of the stones I could read back then cannot be read today.Of all the counties on this web site, the Laois pages are the best for any person seeking their family history, I have so much more information that I have not put on this web site, estate records, parish records, full transcriptions of graveyards. In the last month, my county Laois pages have gone from being in the lowest set of pages visited on this web site to one of the highest ranking sets, and in that month about five people have visited my sponsors.