Hi, Nicholas-- Just curious-- which Connecticut parishes? My Polish immigrant ancestors lived first in Moodus, then in Willimantic. Thanks! Jill ---------- > From: Nicholas Trahan <ntrahan@SAROVPRESS.COM> > To: GEN-SLAVIC@MAIL.EWORLD.COM > Subject: Re: Priests Sympathetic to Genealogy Requests > Date: Tuesday, May 27, 1997 4:11 PM > > In article <l03020906afb0a4e31bef@[199.224.69.221]>, Slavic Genealogy > Discussion List <GEN-SLAVIC@MAIL.EWORLD.COM> wrote: > > [SNIP] > >Secondly, is there a Catholic perspective, here? I know why the Mormons > >want to identify their relatives, but aren't there Catholic interests in > >family, roots, heritage, tradition, etc.? What would Rome think about > >genealogy research? That it is a frivilous effort that takes priests from > >their work, or that this is an important part of that work. (By the way, I > >enclose some money along with my requests, which I learned from the > >suggestions of others.) > > This depends on the parish. I have written to the RC parishwhich my > family was intrumental in starting here in COnnecticut and the preiest > there categorically denied me access to any church records. Through he > seceretary I was told no one sees the records and that they do give out > any information to genealogists. The records are for sacremental purposes > (more like denying people the sacrements) only. > > I hope others have better luck than I. > > Nicholas Trahan > -- > It is possible to find a middle word that between two views will signify both. > But a middle view between two opposite views concerning the same thing is > impossible....There is no room for compromise in matters of the Orthodox Faith. > ---St. Mark of Ephesus