Kevin~ I would go to the County Clare Library web site. There is file which lists the churches which have sacramental records for the particular area of a townland/village, the timeline of those records. Then send your request to the ones which have the correct timeline for your ancestors. However, pre 1864 sacramental records are a "hit or miss" project. For my g g grandfather Thomas DALY, occupation farmer, residence Smithstown, Barony of Lower Bunratty, the church had no records for him, his marriage, or his known children's baptisms/marriages! Other records for him we found, (marriage - 1862, my g grandmother though Catholic married a Protestant in Limerick City in 1862. He is listed, his occupation & residence). We have also sent a letter addressed to the Pastor, Catholic Church for a particular town C/O the local Post office for that town. We included a donation equal to 20 Euros for the church. Sometimes you will get a response several months later with results or a sorry could find nothing, a reply with return of the donation stating they just have no time to do genealogy look-ups, or just no reply at all but the check/money order is never cashed. There is a shortage of priests in Ireland. Most parishes have had their sacramental records put on microfiche for the local Heritage groups which charges a fee (at times can be quite a large fee). Keep in mind that the 1M+ who emigrated in the 19th century, have now descendants all over the world who number in the M>Billions!!!! Thank you so much. I will have to check out these townlands to see if any are close to Smithstown and/or Ennis Town. Appreciate your assist. Mary Ellen Chambers Lakewood, OH maryln61@sbcglobal.net Kevin Fitzpatrick <k_fitz29@yahoo.com> wrote: Mary Ellen..............I found the FITZPATRICK name in the following cemeteries: Clooney South, Cood, Corofin St Catherine, Kilcorcoran, Naughaval. The 1834 Applotments Book shows FITZPATRICKS in the following townlands: Clooney South, Carrowclogh, Laghfarreen, Gurranes, Maughna. I hope you find what you are looking for on your next trip and will share it with us homebounders. Do you happen to know how I might snail mail those churches? Kevin __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to IRL-CLARE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Mary Ellen..............thanks for the tips. Unfortunately, I am looking at a timeline 1820-1850 so I guess Ill be extremely lucky if I find anything. I hate to sound stupid but how do you send a check in Euros? Do you include a SASE? If so, with Irish postage? Kevin Mary Ellen Chambers <maryln61@sbcglobal.net> wrote: Kevin~ I would go to the County Clare Library web site. There is file which lists the churches which have sacramental records for the particular area of a townland/village, the timeline of those records. Then send your request to the ones which have the correct timeline for your ancestors. However, pre 1864 sacramental records are a "hit or miss" project. For my g g grandfather Thomas DALY, occupation farmer, residence Smithstown, Barony of Lower Bunratty, the church had no records for him, his marriage, or his known children's baptisms/marriages! Other records for him we found, (marriage - 1862, my g grandmother though Catholic married a Protestant in Limerick City in 1862. He is listed, his occupation & residence). We have also sent a letter addressed to the Pastor, Catholic Church for a particular town C/O the local Post office for that town. We included a donation equal to 20 Euros for the church. Sometimes you will get a response several months later with results or a sorry could find nothing, a reply with return of the donation stating they just have no time to do genealogy look-ups, or just no reply at all but the check/money order is never cashed. There is a shortage of priests in Ireland. Most parishes have had their sacramental records put on microfiche for the local Heritage groups which charges a fee (at times can be quite a large fee). Keep in mind that the 1M+ who emigrated in the 19th century, have now descendants all over the world who number in the M>Billions!!!! Thank you so much. I will have to check out these townlands to see if any are close to Smithstown and/or Ennis Town. Appreciate your assist. Mary Ellen Chambers Lakewood, OH maryln61@sbcglobal.net Kevin Fitzpatrick wrote: Mary Ellen..............I found the FITZPATRICK name in the following cemeteries: Clooney South, Cood, Corofin St Catherine, Kilcorcoran, Naughaval. The 1834 Applotments Book shows FITZPATRICKS in the following townlands: Clooney South, Carrowclogh, Laghfarreen, Gurranes, Maughna. I hope you find what you are looking for on your next trip and will share it with us homebounders. Do you happen to know how I might snail mail those churches? Kevin __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to IRL-CLARE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to IRL-CLARE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

Kevin~ I GOOGLE the exchange for that particular day and figure what would be the equivalent in American $s and maybe pad it by an extra $2. Never had a problem. Now I only do that for UK and other non EUC countries. A few years back we opened a bank account in Ireland because we are there so much and felt it was much easier; it is. I never send a pre addressed & stamped envelope. On a few occasions when I tried that, I had some returned with a note re: confusion by the person. I feel the donation will cover the postage. Christmas cards this year to Ireland, UK & Oz were all about 87 cents per card. Mary Ellen Kevin Fitzpatrick <k_fitz29@yahoo.com> wrote: Mary Ellen..............thanks for the tips. Unfortunately, I am looking at a timeline 1820-1850 so I guess Ill be extremely lucky if I find anything. I hate to sound stupid but how do you send a check in Euros? Do you include a SASE? If so, with Irish postage? Kevin Mary Ellen Chambers wrote: Kevin~ I would go to the County Clare Library web site. There is file which lists the churches which have sacramental records for the particular area of a townland/village, the timeline of those records. Then send your request to the ones which have the correct timeline for your ancestors. However, pre 1864 sacramental records are a "hit or miss" project. For my g g grandfather Thomas DALY, occupation farmer, residence Smithstown, Barony of Lower Bunratty, the church had no records for him, his marriage, or his known children's baptisms/marriages! Other records for him we found, (marriage - 1862, my g grandmother though Catholic married a Protestant in Limerick City in 1862. He is listed, his occupation & residence). We have also sent a letter addressed to the Pastor, Catholic Church for a particular town C/O the local Post office for that town. We included a donation equal to 20 Euros for the church. Sometimes you will get a response several months later with results or a sorry could find nothing, a reply with return of the donation stating they just have no time to do genealogy look-ups, or just no reply at all but the check/money order is never cashed. There is a shortage of priests in Ireland. Most parishes have had their sacramental records put on microfiche for the local Heritage groups which charges a fee (at times can be quite a large fee). Keep in mind that the 1M+ who emigrated in the 19th century, have now descendants all over the world who number in the M>Billions!!!! Thank you so much. I will have to check out these townlands to see if any are close to Smithstown and/or Ennis Town. Appreciate your assist. Mary Ellen Chambers Lakewood, OH maryln61@sbcglobal.net Kevin Fitzpatrick wrote: Mary Ellen..............I found the FITZPATRICK name in the following cemeteries: Clooney South, Cood, Corofin St Catherine, Kilcorcoran, Naughaval. The 1834 Applotments Book shows FITZPATRICKS in the following townlands: Clooney South, Carrowclogh, Laghfarreen, Gurranes, Maughna. I hope you find what you are looking for on your next trip and will share it with us homebounders. Do you happen to know how I might snail mail those churches? Kevin __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to IRL-CLARE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to IRL-CLARE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to IRL-CLARE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message