On Nov 20, 10:58 am, "jen" <jgil6...@bigpond.net.au> wrote: > Is there a link  for Ireland as Charles parents were born there >Charles William Smith Born 1823 (about) Dublin >Margaret Griffin born County Clare 1842 (about) There are 2 Rootsweb/Ancestry mailing lists for Dublin: - http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/index/intl/IRL/IRL-DUBLIN.html http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/index/intl/IRL/IRL-DUBLIN-CITY.html and this one for County Clare - http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/index/intl/IRL/IRL-CLARE.html They have over 31,000 mailing lists and they are listed here: http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/index/index.html Or you can just enter the subject you are searching for here: http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ Some lists are more active than others. To check this, select the "Browse" option on each mailing list and you will see how many messages each list is receiving each month. Vivien