Pat, I had one other thought. The RC home you were in must have some records as to the names of your parents and the circumstances as to why you were entered there. Can you get them to give you a notarized copy of that? You don't have to prove they were married, just that they were your parents, and then you prove your father's birth and his father's in Ireland. Janet On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 7:08 PM, Pat Lewis <carmodyp@bellsouth.net> wrote: > thank you  all for your reply, however, I find I have a unique set of > circumstances. I am in Florida, The lived in NYC, in more than 10 years > of searching records, genealogy sites etc, hireing researchers  and > checking with the NYC diocese as to where the  certificate might be  of > a church closed where grandmother  ( then a widow w/ 3 children) lived > in 1900 according to census. I have NO relatives  to ask and  Father > left no documents or info about his parents. > I was just curious as to how I would apply. Apparently,  without > grandparent USA info I cannot. > > I have been to Ireland in 2002 and did get to see the town/city that my > Grandmother lived and surrounding area. And managed to get her > baptismal cert record. She left Ireland approx. 1880 with  her brother, > her Mother came later. She married in the 1880's, had 8 children, only > 3 alive when she became a widow, and later married my grandfather, > about 1900-1901. Other than the 1900 census of NYC and 1910 census  she > is not in any documentation! > No licenses were required back in those times there-fore no city > record. Church in area where the census was taken in 1900 closed, St. > Patricks' Diocese barely any help as to finding where a record might > be. Calls to various churches in NYC area, where she supposedly lived > and where they lived later after they married  have found nothing. > GRandparents died long before I was born, and  no documents found > since. > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to IRL-CORK-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

My parents were NOT married. The homes ( that's with a "s")I was in were from 1940-1953, they are closed or torn down , and there are no records. I couldn't get a copy of school records for myself when I went to work at age 16 to support myself. Since I had to have parents ask and they weren't available. My Father's Father was born in England of Irish parents. Thanks for the thought.been there , done that.....I said it was a unique situation, I wasn't kidding. On Sep 15, 2010, at 2:09 PM, Janet Crawford wrote: > Pat, I had one other thought. The RC home you were in must have some > records as to the names of your parents and the circumstances as to > why you were entered there. Can you get them to give you a notarized > copy of that? You don't have to prove they were married, just that > they were your parents, and then you prove your father's birth and his > father's in Ireland. > > Janet > > On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 7:08 PM, Pat Lewis <carmodyp@bellsouth.net> > wrote: >> thank you  all for your reply, however, I find I have a unique set of >> circumstances. I am in Florida, The lived in NYC, in more than 10 >> years >> of searching records, genealogy sites etc, hireing researchers  and >> checking with the NYC diocese as to where the  certificate might be >>  of >> a church closed where grandmother  ( then a widow w/ 3 children) lived >> in 1900 according to census. I have NO relatives  to ask and  Father >> left no documents or info about his parents. >> I was just curious as to how I would apply. Apparently,  without >> grandparent USA info I cannot. >> >> I have been to Ireland in 2002 and did get to see the town/city that >> my >> Grandmother lived and surrounding area. And managed to get her >> baptismal cert record. She left Ireland approx. 1880 with  her >> brother, >> her Mother came later. She married in the 1880's, had 8 children, only >> 3 alive when she became a widow, and later married my grandfather, >> about 1900-1901. Other than the 1900 census of NYC and 1910 census >>  she >> is not in any documentation! >> No licenses were required back in those times there-fore no city >> record. Church in area where the census was taken in 1900 closed, St. >> Patricks' Diocese barely any help as to finding where a record might >> be. Calls to various churches in NYC area, where she supposedly lived >> and where they lived later after they married  have found nothing. >> GRandparents died long before I was born, and  no documents found >> since. >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> IRL-CORK-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-CORK-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >