Hi if your Ancestors were like mine , were Poor and didn`t own land the following Website is amazing may be known to everyone else but i hadn`t heard of it until my Cousin in Canada , Marilyn mentioned it. Marilyn found my GGGrandfather on it when i thought it was a brick wall job . The part that i was lucky with was the records of the Irish Reproductive Loans Funds Records. http://www.movinghere.org.uk/default.htm Good Luck !! Regards Ron L