It's easy to autosubscribe to content that you post. Like many things on this site, it is done through your "My Account" area. Here are the steps to follow:

1) Click on "My Account"

2) Click on "Edit my Profile"

3) Click on "Immediate notifications settings"

4) Tick the box beside "autosubscribe"

* You can also set preferences here for how often you want to get notified - immediately, once a day, once a week, etc.

5) Scroll to the end of the page to save your changes.

When creating a message, there is an area just under where you put in your message text called "Add Images".

Clicking the button here labelled "Choose File" will let you select your image.

Once selected, simply click on "Upload" and your image will be uploaded for you.

You have a number of options of what size you want the image. Here are sample sizes for you:

(the sizes with "lightbox" beside them when choosing your size mean that if you click on those images they will open up big on your screen)

After you upload your image and choose your size, you MUST then click on insert to "insert" the image in your message.

You can now "drag and drop" your image where you want it on the page. If you want your text on the left or right of the image, click on the image to select it, then on the image icon in the tool bar; now, under "alignment" at the bottom of the pop-up window, choose "left" or "right" and click OK.

It's very easy to change your password. 

You first need to go to your "My Account" page.

Under "Account Settings", click on "Edit my Profile".

Next, choose the "Change Password" tab.

Input your new password.

Click "Change Password" at the bottom. - Yippee! A new password, just for you!

(You can also use this page to change your personal and professional information as well, by choosing the "Personal Information" or "Work Information" tabs instead of the "Change Password" one.)

To create an account on Ireland Reaching Out, you need to click on the "Login/Register" button in the main menu bar.

Next you need to click on the "Join Ireland Reaching Out" button.

This will bring you to a page to enter you signup details - name, email address etc. When you have filled in these details, click the "Join Ireland Reaching Out" button at the bottom of the page.

Presuming you have filled out this form correctly, you will be sent an email with details of your account. When you receive this email, there is a long link in it that you need to click on to verify that you are the person that owns the email (it lets us know that you were not setting up a fake account for someone else).

The link that you click here is a "one time login" link. After you click on it and login to you account, you must now change you password. (Don't forget to click the "Change Password" button at the bottom.)

You now have a fully functioning Ireland Reaching Out account. Congratulations and thanks for joining us!

There are a number of ways to find your parish using our website.

1) You can do a search using our search box.

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2) You can click on "Parishes" in the main menu to get a list of all parishes in Ireland.

- You can use the "Parish Search" box on this page to filter parishes name.

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3) You can navigate to a county page from the main menu and see all parishes in that county.

 - You can use the "Parish Search" box on these county pages to filter parishes name.

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4) You can use the "Active Ireland XO Parishes" map on the right hand sidebar.

If you wish to receive an email everytime someone creates a message in one of your parishes, you need to follow these simple steps. You can do the same to subscribe to any type of content in a parish ("Local News", for example).

1) Login to your account. On your "My Account" page (the first page you arrive on when you login), click on "Notificiation Settings" under "Account Settings".

2) You will be brought to your "Notifications" page. Here you can subscribe (and/or unsubscribe) from content on our site. To add a new subscription, click on the "Add Subscription" tab at the top.

3) Next, you are presented with a list of subscription types. To choose all messages in one of your parishes, click on "Content type in group".

4) Lastly, choose the parish whose content you want to subscribe to (the list will only show parishes that you are a member of), then choose which content type you wish to subscribe to (probably "Message"), and then click "Add".

This is very simple. To make sure that you receive an email when someone replies to your message, you need to follow two steps:

1) Click the "Subscriptions" link below the image upload area:

2) Tick the box beside "This post" to subscribe to your post:

If you don't do this, and you wish to subscribe to your message later (or any message for that matter), simply click on the "Subscribe to this Post" link under the message you wish to subscribe to:

To post content on Ireland XO, you first must have an account. You can register for one here.

Once you have an account, you must be logged in to the site to post content.

To post a message on a message board, you must "Join" that parish first, by clicking on the "JOIN PARISH" link that is on the parish homepage (we call parish homepages VPPs - "Virtual Parish Presences").

Now, when you are on the VPP of a parish that you are a member of, you will see a new box on the top of the right sidebar labelled "Post a Message". Clicking on the "Create" button here will bring you to the "Post a Message" page for this parish.

Lastly, fill in your title, ancestors' surnames, your query, and then scroll down to the bottom to click "Post".