Hi listers, Thought I'd mention this about spelling a name and how it is pronounced. My husband was looking without success for a Kirk family who came from the Mitchelstown area of Cork. When we were in Cork last year, we went to the Mallow District office hoping to find this family but couldn't find the Kirk family. The woman there even took out the original books to look at but to no avail. We couldn't understand why we couldn't find them. A few weeks ago we were at our local LDS Family History Center when my husband called me to his viewer. He was looking for another family in the Mitchelstown area when he noticed the entry above the one he was looking at. It was the marriage record of William Quirk and Johanna Coughlan. We felt it was the one he was looking for, for over three years and thought the family changed its name before it came to the US. It wasn't until we were speaking to William and Johanna's granddaughter that I remembered something from Dublin. Some of streets along the River Liffey are named Wood Quay, Essex Quay, Welleton Quay, etc. When I pronounced it incorrectly, I was told Quay is pronounced KEY. So it would seem that Qu is pronounced as a K not as a Q. No wonder we couldn't find Kirk. Nora Hopkins FitzGerald Hopkins - Castlebar, Co. Mayo/New York City FitzGerald/O'Regan - County Limerick/County Cork/Queens, NYC Fahey/Hogan/Keane/Hopkins Castlebar, Co. Mayo/Chicago