St Patricks' Diocese isn't very friendly and sent me on wild goose chase- Called many churches and still no certificate or names found or church. On Sep 15, 2010, at 3:50 PM, Jean Copeland wrote: > Pat, > > Have you asked the Diocesean Office where the family lived in New York > if > they have an Archives for Diocesan Records? Here in Ohio our Diocese > has an > archives office that holds the records from closed parishes or at > least can > tell us where records are now kept if they are held at another parish. > Good luck in your search. > > Jean > > On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 2:08 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 >