Bud, I wanted to touch base with you, since I am doing East Clare research for my Carberry and Donnellan families, who lived in the early to mid-1800s in townlands only a couple of miles west of Broadford. I assume you have seen the LDS film of the parish records of O'Callaghan Mills, which covers Broadford (back to 1841, I believe). Also, about two years ago, I was contacted by a Carty descendant whose ancestor lived in Kilkishen and wrote a diary entry about one of my Carberrys as his schoolteacher in 1872, thus establishing that at least one of the family stayed behind after the others either died or emigrated in the 1850s. I am also very interested in the Connell family of Ballymcdonnell and any families in Killuran in the mid-1800s. I found that a Carty was a teacher in Kilkishen in 1862 or so (doing this from memory) as the teacher salary books show, which I consulted in the National Archives in Dublin. Finally, since I am researching Hudson Co. in NJ, I know there is a fairly new CD out on brides and grooms records in NJ. I don't know how extensive the coverage is but it did turn up marriages back to the 1870s, if I recall correctly. My lookup was done by a volunteer, probably on the Hudson County mailing list, the archives for which you can find on the Rootsweb site. Happy hunting. Sharon Carberry