The recent chat about geocities made me realize there's a free online resource I use from time to time which might be helpful to others on the list, although there is only one Irish database - Civil Registration Indexes 1845-1958. The site also has a few English and Welsh records, as well as records from elsewhere in the world. At the following page, folks should use the clickable map to get to that part of the world where they're searching and then select a database to search. http://pilot.familysearch.org/recordsearch/start.html# Europe, for example, will take you to links to search the Irish, English and Welsh databases. (Thank-ee Ray.) Loretta