The likes of that is handy to know when looking for them in Ireland depending on which line one is researching so on can at least create the likes of a s/sheet with a column for religion and then look at Marriage Agreement as there were most probably agreements, plus Wills/Deeds/Inheritances etc....AND HELPS THE HELPERS!! Fr Jim Burtchaell would have had access to a lot more records than memebers of "the Public" so if he couldn't sort them then who can? One also has to take into account the paranoia of some families where daughter married and the Groom took on her Surname... then their sons married and took on the name of another family. So if Mr A married Miss B he became Mr B... then their son married Miss C and became Mr C.. whereas if they hadn't been so up themselves they would have been a line of Mr A over generations. Similarly there may be Marriage Agreements where one had to change their religion from RC to C of I for example.... Certainly without knowing their religion here in Ireland how would one even try to sort them out? Where would one start if they just had a list of names? Religion is the Filter to use to at least get them lined up back in time in order to find the connection, if any. What they did outside Ireland is irrelevant to finding them IN IRELAND. DH On 15/03/2015 01:55, Linda Ford wrote: > The Burtchaells of Co. Kilkenny, those styled by Fr Jim Burtchaell in > his published genealogy as the Leinster Burtchaells, were staunchly C of > I. HOWEVER, there was and still is a line of Burtchaells, living cheek > to jowl with the C of I Burtchaells around Graiguenamanagh, who are RC. > Fr Jim styled them the Clohastia Burtchaells. (We're still trying to > find the connection between the two, because there MUST be one.)