GRO will accept personal checks/bank drafts, International Money Orders and Irish Postal Orders denominated in € drawn on a branch of a bank located in the Republic of Ireland and be acceptable for clearance through the Irish check clearing system. Since the changeover to the € in January 2002 and now with the introduction of a credit card facility, the historical reasons for the practice in this office of accepting payments in £ and U.S.dollars (i.e. the difficulty and expense of obtaining checks denominated in Irish punts in the U.K., the U.S.A. and elsewhere) no longer prevail. From the 8th October 2002 GRO will accept credit/debit card payments in the following manner: In person at our public counters on the 1st floor of our office in Joyce House. By post to General Register Office, Joyce House, 8/11 Lombard Street, Dublin 2. By fax @ +353-1-6354527. GRO will accept Mastercard and Visa credit cards. It should be noted that applications paid by credit card will not be expedited or treated any differently from applications using other payment methods. (Note: I do not see any indication that there will be an additional charge for using a credit card.) New application forms (which contain a provision for the inclusion of credit card details) for Birth/Death/Marriage Certificates, designed for the ongoing computerization/modernization program are posted on the Apply for a Cert page of this website [http://www.groireland.ie/fees.htm] These forms can be downloaded and then submitted to this office by post or fax. Before 1864 you must use other sources to find/verify information, Ellen "Lorraine Conroy" <timlorr@warwick.net> wrote: >I have the year of birth for my g.father and his parents names, is it >possible that I can get a copy of his birth from Dublin? Not sure what >county he was born in , think it was Mayo, but not a positive thing. __________________________________________________________________ The NEW Netscape 7.0 browser is now available. Upgrade now! http://channels.netscape.com/ns/browsers/download.jsp Get your own FREE, personal Netscape Mail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com/