Thanks to Pat Connors for this (and past) input. Your postings are appreciated. Sharon At 10:29 AM 4/17/2005 -0700, ConnorsGenealogy wrote: >>How do you know the RC parishes? >This is a good question and I will start off the lesson and hope if others >have more to add, that they do so. All are invited to add to this thread. > >This is how I find the RC parish, if I know the townland. >1. Go to the following website to find the civil parish: >http://www.seanruad.com >This website is a database of all the townlands listed in the 1851 Ireland >census, so remember names change, borders change, but this will give you a >good idea about where your townland is located. Also, remember that this >database is quite strict when doing a search. So, if you spell the name >wrong, don't put a capital on the first letter, you may not be able to >find your information. Check out the SEARCH METHOD, if you can't find >your townland. If you know the beginning or ending of the townland's >name, try those options. > >2. After you get the civil parish, barony and poor law union, you can use >a some other resources, here are a few. >--Book, 'A Guide to Irish Parish Register' by Brian Mitchell. This book >is arranged by county. You go to the county, look up the civil parish and >it will give you the RC parish and the dates of available records. >However, if there are more than one RC parish in the civil parish, you >won't get a definite answer here. >--Book, 'Irish Records, Sources for Family and Local History' by James >Ryan. This book also is arranged by county, and gives the civil parish >and corresponding RC parishes and dates of available records. At the end >of each county chapter, there are civil parish maps but like the above >book, if there are more than one RC parish in the civil parish, you won't >be able to use this source to figure out what your RC parish. >--Book, 'A New Genalogical Atlas of Ireland, 2nd Edition' by Brian >Mitchell. This is a book of maps for each county. Not only does it have >the civil parish, barony and poor law union maps but also have RC parish >maps. (For some of the northern counties, there are also Presbyterian >Congregation maps.) When there are more than one RC parish in a civil >parish, if you use the barony and poor law union information that you >obtained from the SeanRuad website to figure out the RC >parish. NOTE: The 1st edition of this book does NOT have RC parish maps. > >If you don't have any of these books, how else can you figure out the RC >parish? >1. Use google to find a website that may give you the information. > >2 Use the Catholic Ireland website index: >http://www.catholicireland.net/parishes/index.php > >3. Try the Irish Times website (part is free, part they charge, check out >all the free areas): >http://scripts.ireland.com/ancestor/browse/counties/rcmaps/ > >4. Try asking on the county mailing list, someone will probably be able >to help you. Here is the index for the Republic's county mailing lists: >http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/intl/IRL/ >Here is the index for the Northern Ireland county mailing lists: >http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/intl/NIR/ > >-- >Pat Connors, Sacramento CA >http://www.connorsgenealogy.com >All outgoing mail virus free, scanned by ZoneAlarm AntiVirus > > > > >==== IRELAND-ROLL-CALLS Mailing List ==== >To Unsubcribe from L: mailto:[email protected] >To Unsubscribe from D: mailto:[email protected] >Put the single word 'unsubscribe' in the message subject and body >