Helen <hjaj2000@btinternet.com> said: >I have just started researching the Irish side of my family but without a >huge amount of success. My grandfather was a John Henry APPELBE born the >16 April 1926 in Macroom (I have Carrigaphooca on the birth certificate). >His father was a Henry Edward APPELBE also of Macroom and he married a >Elizabeth Ann GOOD(E) in 1897. As you already have the birth cert. the next logical move would be to obtain the parents' marriage cert. See: http://www.nationalarchives.ie/genealogy/birthsmarrdeaths.html Records of Irish Births, Marriages, and Deaths http://www.genfindit.com/imarrs.htm LDS Film Numbers for Index to Irish civil marriage records http://www.genfindit.com Online Irish Vital Records Ordering Service http://www.geocities.com/stassam.geo/dublin.html Lookup Service for Records in Dublin http://homepage.eircom.net/~seanjmurphy/gro/ Guide to the General Register Office http://www.rootsweb.com/~fianna/county/ldspars.html LDS Film Numbers for Irish Parish Registers http://www.nli.ie/pdfs/famil2.pdf Parish Registers at National Library of Ireland http://homepage.eircom.net/~ifhs/IFHSpub5.htm Directory of Parish Registers Indexed in Ireland published by the Irish Family History Society http://www.groireland.ie/ General Register Office (Republic of Ireland) Births, Marriages and Deaths for 32 counties 1864-1922 Republic of Ireland only 1922-present