Hello, list -- At the end of his post on 26 Aug, Jerry <sumo@bellatlantic.net> mentioned that he didn't know where Portarlington, IRL was located. After my recent blunder re: location of Stonehouse <g>, I hope listers will permit me to offer the following information about Portarlington. First, from GENUKI, here is information about The French Church at Portarlington, ie. St. Paul's. It's at URL: http://ireland.iol.ie/~offaly/stpauls.htm. Also according to GENUKI, Portarlington is one of the chief towns of County Laois (also apparently known as Leix or Queen's county). This is a county which is bounded on the north and west by King's county, on the east by Kildare and part of Carlow, in the south by Kilkenny, and the southwest by Tipperary. Here's a URL for a county map of Ireland on which Laois can be located -- http://www.wisc.edu/history/famine/ir_map.html. Here's another URL which shows the exact location of Portarlington within the county -- http://www.goireland.com/scripts/low/area.asp?areatype=c&areaid=182. The last URL is from a larger site for Ireland's National Tourism Service (GoIreland) and I notice that it does have a genealogy section at -- http://www.goireland.com/Genealogy/. Information there includes a searchable database for surnames, tips for searching, links, Irish genealogy centres, etc. Anyone researching Ireland may also be interested in a post sent to the list 16 July with subject line -- Irish websites: Fianna. Hope this has been of interest. And that it's accurate!! If not, please don't hesitate to let me know. Andrea > P.S. I don't know where Port Arlington, IR is located.