JP & MC Mizzi <mmizzi@dodo.com.au> asked: >Where is the best place to get photocopies of birth marriage and death >certificates from COAL-QUAY CORK? Have tried sending a fax to one >of the fax numbers of ST Peter and St Pauls but cannot seem to get >through. Have tried the one number many times. There are a few different >fax numbers to try but is there any special fax number I should try >especially for COAL-QUAY?Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. If the event is after the commencement of civil registration in 1864 your best bet is the General Register Office. If it is a baptism or marriage prior to 1864, you need to search parish records. There is a volunteer group indexing the parish records for Cork City, but I have not yet heard any annuncement that they have reached a point of accepting requests for information. An address given as Coal Quay would, I believe, fall within the parish boundaries of Sts. Peter & Paul's church, but their primary mission is to serve current parishioners, not to do genealogical research for descendants of past parishioners. Here are some links that may help. http://www.cmcrp.net/Cork/ County Cork CMC Record Project http://www.nationalarchives.ie/genealogy/birthsmarrdeaths.html Records of Irish Births, Marriages, and Deaths http://www.genfindit.com/ibirths.htm LDS Film Numbers for Index to Irish civil birth records http://www.genfindit.com/imarrs.htm LDS Film Numbers for Index to Irish civil marriage records http://www.genfindit.com/ideaths.htm LDS Film Numbers for Index to Irish civil death 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