Hi Cathy The links for databases as below are:- www.irishgenealogy.ie (use the free search, 3.6 million records, link in green banner at top of page) www.ulsterancestry.com Useful tools, but probably most expensive way to purchase certificate. Within the years of statutory registration the copy of the entry in the register is much more personal, having original signatures, (except marriage, where these will be in the parish book), and less expensive than the official extracted information on certificate dated "today". The first link is good in the fact that it appears to have indexed events before 1864, and having found my ggrandfather's death in 1895, (FHC Death Index) age 50, was able to then find an 1845 entry for - hopefully - his baptism. Best Wishes Ava Connelly Date: Sun, 8 Apr 2007 08:35:06 -0700 (PDT) From: cathy hatcher <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [IRL-CAVAN] IRL-CAVAN - Databases & FHC To: [email protected] Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Dear Ava, Would you mind posting those links again? I just joined the email list and seem to have missed the message. Thanks, Cathy AC <[email protected]> wrote: Hello again, I'm sorry for any misunderstanding, and hope you didn't spend too much money, I offered the links as a means of narrowing the field. May I add that I used the databases as an overview, and then visited Family History Centre to obtain more specific register details from the Index films, I have not ordered certificates as yet, but in the near future, armed with the registration info, Quarter, Volume and page number, from the indexes at FHC, I will purchase from GRO in Dublin. Price for this is,(I think), 4 Euros. (Unless Meg can suggest a better method?). Of course as Meg points out if the parish register was filmed FHC can order the film and certificate can then be printed out from that if facilities allow. -- I am using the free version of SPAMfighter for private users. It has removed 1885 spam emails to date. Paying users do not have this message in their emails. Get the free SPAMfighter here: http://www.spamfighter.com/len