The Chief Secretary's Office Registered Papers (CSORP), held by the National Archives of Ireland, are yet another source for genealogical details. After the Act of Union in 1800, the Chief Secretary became the effective head of government in Ireland. CSORP is composed of all incoming correspondence to that office between the years 1818 and 1924. Funded by the bequest of Francis J. Crowley, the documents are being catalogued and calendared. The following explanation comes from the National Archives website: The Crowley project is a five year project at the National Archives of Ireland, to catalogue to international archival standards, the registered papers of the Office of the Chief Secretary of Ireland from 1818 to 1852, in order to facilitate public access to one of the most valuable sources of original material for research on Ireland in the first half of the nineteenth century. [Boy Howdy, that's a long sentence!] The project also employs a dedicated conservator to conserve the papers once they are listed. The project was made possible by a bequest from the late Francis J. Crowley. Born in New Haven, Connecticut, Professor Crowley was educated at Yale and Princeton, and became a Professor of French at the University of California at Los Angeles. Both his parents were born in Ireland, and in his will he bequeathed most of his estate to the Republic of Ireland to be used for the preservation of records of the history of the Irish people. Work commenced in 2008, and we are delighted to offer public access to the online catalogue for the first 5 years of papers which have been listed: 1818, 1819, 1820, 1821, and 1822. These items are available for consultation at the reading room of the National Archives of Ireland, according to usual procedures. Cataloguing of the years 1823 and 1824 is currently in progress and these lists will be added to this website when complete. You can do keyword searches, browse the collection, or create more complex queries here: www.csorp.nationalarchives.ie/index.html. The results include the title of the document and its scope and content. Nicola Morris writes about what she discovered in CSORP records in a 28 September 2015 blog posting: http://timeline.ie/csorp-records/.